National Award-winning filmmaker Shonali Bose (of Amu fame) who lost her older son Ishaan a few months ago in a freak accident, dedicated her latest film to her deceased son.

Bose was the middle of the film titled Chittagong, based on the 1930 Chittagong uprising when her world fell apart. However, instead of letting grief overcome her, she decided to hasten the film's release.

The protagonist of Chittagong is a 14 year-old boy, which led the filmmaker to see the film's destiny as inextricably linked to her son's death. The completion of the film was undertaken on a war footing. The entire unit in Rajasthan worked doubly hard to make sure Bose met the November 14 deadline, but the film was finally completed earlier this month.

Oscar-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty, who was part of the project, even shifted his sound studio from Mumbai to Udaipur for the final schedule of the film. "It's the least we can do to ease her grief, " he says. "Ishan's death was a shock. He was shaving with an electric razor, when there was a short circuit and he suffered burn injuries."

Bose's husband Bedrabrata Pyne is the director of Chittagong, while she is producing it.

"He quit being a NASA scientist to join me in making the film. It's turned out to be fantastic, and it is pretty unbelievable that he has never attended a single film class or even been on a film set! NYU film school professors couldn't believe it when they saw it, " she says.

Bose says the film is dedicated to Ishaan, who was passionately engaged in the filmmaking process and had even "watched and loved" three cuts of Bose's film. The release date of the film is yet to be finalised.