Chalo Bollywood

Besides this,Prosenjit has been invited by Sanskriti,organisers of the North American Bengali Conference as a special guest this year. This is an annual event held in July. Databazaar Media Ventures,this year’s Grand Sponsors are organising a film festival in collaboration with NABC. The festival is expected to screen four of the actor’s recent films. He has even signed on Aniruddha RoyChoudhury’s Aparajita Tumi where he has two leading ladies,Padmapriya and Kamalini,both from the South and both have bagged National Awards. The film will be shot entirely in San Francisco because he plays a NRI who is a high-flying corporate head. There is Ananda Math,a famous Bankim Chandra classic in which his wife Arpita has been cast opposite him for the first time since their marriage. It is being directed by Ujjal Chakraborty. Prosenjit is also considering a film by Sekhar Das based on a famous novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay”

The critical and box-office success of Moner Manush over and above the top award at the IFFI last year has reinforced the change in the direction of this actor’s profile. He is now concentrating on characters,films and directors who can bring the best out of him as an actor.. The way the audience accepted the deconstruction of commercial hero Prosenjit in Moner Manush was beyond his expectations. The Governor of West Bengal has asked to watch the film,and the President has also expressed a wish to watch it. Autograph and Chalo Paltai were diametrically opposite to Moner Manush and yet,they were able to draw out layers that lay latent within him. “What else can an actor look for?” he muses.

At the moment,he is eagerly awaiting the release of Naukadubi,based on a Tagore novel in which Riya and Raima Sen are featured together for the first time. But above all,he is looking forward to the international release of Srijit Mukherjee’s second directorial film 22-shey Srabon at the North American Bengali Conference in July this year. “22-shey Srabonis a murder mystery that involves the police in a big way. I play Prabir Guha Neogi,who,I think,has been modelled on the real-life police officer Runu Guha Neogi who was a terror in Bengal during the Naxal era. It is a role I have never done before in my life about a cop whose life has gone sour. He lives alone and does not have a family. He has no qualms about visiting prostitutes. He uses the filthiest of abuses that would make a sailor blush. I have never used such abuses in my life. But this is just one segment of the character that passes through three phases beginning with a flashback. It is a new Prosenjit you will see in this film. I hope you like him. And the other Prosenjits too!” On that note,we part.