Pain, 49, said he decided to turn a filmmaker to tell the story of Masterda Surya Sen, who plotted and executed the famous Chittagong uprising against the British in the 1930s through a film. <a href="http://photos.mid-day.com/b-town-specials/shah-rukh-khan-attends-chittagong-screening/srk-bedabrata-pain-2/" target="_blank">Photos:u00a0Shah Rukh Khan attends &#39;Chittagong&#39; screening</a> <img alt="Shah Rukh Khan with Bedabrata Pain at 'Chittagong' screening" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/oct/Shah-Rukh-Bedabrata.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 540px; " /> Shah Rukh Khan with Bedabrata Pain at &#39;Chittagong&#39; screening Pain said he hardly found anyone outside West Bengal being aware of the courageous story of the raid of the British armouries by a handful of patriotic revolutionaries in Chittagong, now in Bangladesh, which shook the British colonialists. &quot;I spent 26 years outside Bengal and 15 years of which I worked as a senior research scientist at the NASA. But the Bengali in me would never go away. After I found in 2006 that not many people in India knew of the Chittagong uprising, I decided to make a film on it,&quot; Pain said. Pain was one of the inventors of the active pixel sensor technology that produced the world&#39;s smallest camera. He was inducted into the US Space Technology Hall of Fame. Pain says the film, &#39;Chittagong&#39; which releases on October 12, was made in Hindi because he wanted a pan-India audience to see it. &quot;If Masterda Surya Sen were born in Europe, by now there would be a hundred films on him as it is a David vs Goliath story,&quot; the director felt. Starring Manoj Bajpai and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, &#39;Chittagong&#39; deals with a group of schoolboys and young women, led by Surya Sen, a teacher, who raided two armouries in the place. The recent success of Bengal based Hindi films like &#39;Kahaani&#39; and &#39;Barfi&#39;, has left the debutante director elated. &quot;I hope mine will be a hit too as the country is now taking note of Bengali talents,&quot; he said. At NASA&#39;s jet propulsion lab, which he quit four years ago, Pain has 87 patents to his name. &quot;A Bengali will always have this love for art, culture and creativity. Now with this mission to tell a tale from Bengal to the whole world I plan to channelise my creativity in a different direction,&quot; he said, adding he found a sync between inventing technologies and making films. He said that the decision is a big risk for him as he has hardly been to a film&#39;s set before this. &quot;I felt that this was the right time to take the plunge.u00a0There is a fine line between foolishness and bravery. I don&#39;t know yet where I fall,&quot; said Pain, who now lives in Mumbai. To research for his film, he read a lot of books, historical records and even met some of the eyewitnesses in Bangladesh. &quot;Although I have taken liberty at some places, but my film is based essentially on historical facts,&quot; he added.

Love for Bengal and a burning desire to present the forgotten story of a Bengali freedom fighter to people outside the state, drove senior NASA scientist Bedabrata Pain to land in Bollywood

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