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‘His shots were like a choreographed scene’
Updated On: 11 June, 2021 08:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Upala KBR
Prosenjit Chatterjee pays tribute to the legendary filmmaker, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, who passed away at 77
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Buddhadeb Dasgupta
I was lucky to do two films with Buddhada – Swapner Din [2004] and Ami, Yasin Ar Amar Madhubala [2007]. Unfortunately, they never got a proper commercial release in India. Ami, Yasin Ar Amar Madhubala was screened at Toronto Film Festival and Swapner Din won the Best Film [gong] at the National Awards. He wanted me to do Kaalpurush [2005], where I was to play Mithunda’s [Chakraborty] son, but our dates didn’t match. [I couldn’t be part of] Uttara [2000] because I couldn’t go bald and put on weight [at the time].
Parallel cinema has a [restricted] budget, but we never asked for remuneration as we wanted to work in such films. When I went to meet Buddhada for the narration of Swapner Din, the first thing he told me was, ‘Ami tomake ekta gamchar taka debo [I can pay you the price of a cotton towel].’ I had to change my look to that of an ordinary boy and tone down my skin [colour]. He didn’t think that a successful mainstream hero would go out of his way, put his heart and mind into the role. He was happy. Buddhada would tell people, ‘Prosenjit is a dedicated director’s actor because he is always with the director — from the shoot to managing the sequences and coming up with solutions’.
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