Feluda famed Indian actor Sabyasachi Chatterjee’s birthday came a week earlier this year. The cast and crew of his upcoming film Gondi gathered in Gulshan on Sunday to share their experience of working on this film. A cake was cut at the event to celebrate this beloved actor’s upcoming birthday.
Sabyasachi gave a heartfelt speech thanking the Bangladeshi audience for their immense love, and support.
“I was surprised to be selected for this role. Because other than my age, I have no similarity with this character,” he said.“I always either play a detective or a criminal or a police officer… I played a few different characters in my early years, but later, because of my face, I stopped getting those roles.”
He said humbly, with his looks, he never expected to become an actor. It’s only through perseverance, and determination that he attained people’s affection.
“I don’t judge the technicalities of a film, I judge a filmmaker by his warmth, aspirations, and honesty,” he said about the director Fakhrul Arefin Khan.
Feluda famed Indian actor Sabyasachi speaks at the event | Rajib Dhar/Dhaka Tribune About his co-star Suborna Mustafa, he said working with her was so rewarding that it was reason enough for him to act in this film.
Popular actor Suborna also shared her delight in acting with Feluda.
“They say acting is all about reacting,” she said. “And when your co-actor is Sabyasachi, it automatically improves the quality of acting.”
She said, what first attracted her to the film was the storyline. She agreed to work in Gondi even before hearing about Sabyasachi’s involvement.
She shared an anecdote of how they had to make a dressing room on the open beach in Cox’s Bazar by tying a piece of cloth around four trees. Such improvisations added to the fun on the set, she said.
The last lot of shooting for this film started in Dhaka on Monday. This is the director’s second feature fiction after Bhuban Majhi, which starred Parambrata Chatterjee, and Aparna Ghose.