Mumbai: The Income Tax department may be giving sleepless nights to Amitabh Bachchan and his fans but here's one person who is attempting to change the department's image.
Forty-year old Sudhanshu Shekhar Jha is juggling two jobs these days.
By day he is Additional Commissioner of Income Tax and at night he is a filmmaker, overlooking the edit of his debut film Eik Dastak.
Its mostly 16-18 hours of work for Shekhar these days while commuting between his office in Kalyan, home in Thane and studios in Andheri. But he is not complaining.
"My job is my profession and this is my dream. So, when you have a dream you definitely find time and energy to fulfill it. And somehow when I reach the studio, I get energised. So, its not much of problem," says he.
What's interesting is that Shekhar himself has written the story, screenplay and dialogues of the film which is based on his experience of 16 years of service.
Eik Dastak looks into the functioning of the Income Tax department through the eyes of a group of officers.
Recently the I-T department has been getting lot of negative publicity for many starry reasons and Shekhar belives his film will change many perceptions.
I think my film will change the face of the department. Any bureaucracy is known to be faceless. We are not supposed to side with anyone, be it a politician or a film star. This faceless bureaucracy doesnt have a mouth to speak in the public. So, may be this is an attempt to tell people that look we are not the way you think us to be. We are rather impartial," says Jha.
Made on a shoe-string budget of Rs 2 crore, the film mostly stars character actors like Vasundhra Das, Murli Sharma, Narain Jha and Yatin Karyekar.
So, if you were always curious to know how the I-T department finds out about your income and assets, wait till August when Eik Dastak reveals it all.
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