By Kavita Mistry 
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Talking about Jolie’s incident, he continued, “We were waiting for the right plot, and on erstwhile Twitter, we came across this real-life incident involving Angelina Jolie’s life where she had hired a contract killer at the age of 19 to kill herself. She wanted it to look like a suicide but also wanted to make it look like a shootout for her family. Of course, the contract killer asked her to sleep over it and she changed her mind, and the rest is history.”
Srijit stated that the uniqueness and quirkiness of this incident intrigued him. He continued, “Also the fact that if I had imagined such a plot myself people would have dismissed it as too radical or too unrealistic. Thankfully it actually happened so it made my life easier. Also the themes of suicide and assisted suicide are close to Hemlock, which is why I thought this could go ahead. Of course there are twists and turns in this story, but the seed idea remains this.” Hemlock Society also stars Koushani Mukherjee along with Parambrata Chattopadhyay.