Buddhadeb Dasgupta's bilingual, Bait in English and Tope in Bengali, will also have its world premiere at The Toronto International Film Festival. Chandan Roy Sanyal who plays the lead in this film shot in Purulia in West Bengal last year, recalls that he was in Venice when he got a call from the director's daughter requesting a narration on Skype. “Since the film is about human evolution, I'm mostly on a tree befriending monkeys,“ he laughs.

Shooting with animals isn't easy and Chandan ended up spending long hours on the tree. If the monkeys shifted from their mark, it was a retake. "You cant control animals beyond a point,“ he reasons.

The effort has paid off. After the premiere at Toronto, Bait will travel to the Busan film fest and then BFI London International Film Festival: “It gave me the opportunity to work with a director who's a respected poet and activist. This is the seventh time his film is being screened at TIFF,“ adds the actor