Amitabh Bachchan and Rituparno Ghosh were to do a film

Actor Amitabh Bachchan said that he was shocked by the demise of filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh and claimed they were to do a film together.

“I have no words for the grief which I am feeling today. The country has lost a great artist,” Bachchan told reporters here at an event.

Ghosh directed Bachchan in his first English language film ‘The Last Lear’.

“We had spoken on the phone a few days back about a film which we wanted to make together,” he said.

The 12-time national award winning filmmaker passed away following a cardiac arrest at his residence in Kolkata today morning.

——PTI