Sonada is a happy-go lucky young professor with a penchant to find hidden treasures. He will also be reprising the role of Sonada in KarnaSubarner Guptodhan. The actor has numerous film shoots lined up in the next few months, while some completed projects have been awaiting release, including Arindam Sil’s Mayakumari, which celebrates 100 years of Bengali cinema and Indradeep Dasgupta’s Agantuk, an account of the loneliness of the older generation.Ĭhatterjee will return as Byomkesh Bakshi, “a character I have been living with for the last 12 years” in Sil’s Bishupal Bodh, which will go on floors soon.
Asked about his Bollywood ambitions as some of his contemporaries have tasted success in Hindi films, a smiling Chatterjee quipped, “Let us first see the audience feedback on my debut in the Hindi space on OTT, then I will take a call on working in Bollywood…also, I had a lot of pending shoots back here and completing those was my first priority.” It is currently in the post production stage. “If you don’t like a particular content, just move on with a single swipe…competition is immense and you are pitted against everyone associated with this profession…therefore, I think we need to buck up more, improvise and improve ourselves to stay in the race,” Chatterjee, synonymous with the iconic character of detective Byomkesh Bakshi, said.Ĭhatterjee is also awaiting release of his first Hindi language venture on OTT. People can now watch cinematic work from India and around the world in multiple languages.
They are still trying to adapt to the changing situation. He stated that actors and audiences have both changed in the two years since the COVID-19 epidemic struck. So I think OTT and movies in theatres will co-exist, though we might see a change in viewing patterns,” Chatterjee told PTI in an interview.
“It is difficult to say at this juncture as it’s early days…when we were introduced to television, the cable network and VCR, many people had said the end of cinema is near, but it has sustained. The popular actor said that while there are many entertainment options available on a variety of OTT streaming sites, good-old cinema in theaters is still here to stay.