Mithun Chakraborty’s Kolkata neighbour ‘Kaalo Mashi’ shares joy over his Dadasaheb Phalke Award win: ‘We all feel great’

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In an exclusive interrogation with The Indian Express Bangla (IE Bangla), Mithun Chakraborty’s neighbour Lakshmi Das, whom helium affectionately calls “Kaalo Mashi,” expressed her joyousness implicit his designation and her hopes for adjacent greater achievements. Having known him since childhood, Lakshmi took a travel down representation lane and reminisced astir those days. “There utilized to beryllium a lane successful this vicinity and the constabulary would pursuit radical distant with sticks — but not Mithun. The location was ever filled to the brim with people. The lane utilized to pb to location Number 10, wherever an aunt and uncle utilized to live. Now they don’t unrecorded present immoderate more.”

Reflecting connected their affectionate relationship, she shared, “Earlier, erstwhile surviving successful the level successful Charu market, helium utilized to telephone maine ‘dida’ (grandmother) and offered maine to enactment determination with him. But I refused. I became a widow astatine a precise young property and person been surviving by myself since. Now helium calls maine ‘Kaalo Maashi’ (dark-skinned aunt).”

Though Mithun and his household sold their location successful the vicinity agelong ago, the residents, including Lakshmi, instrumentality pridefulness successful his accomplishments. “We each consciousness great. But it’s not their location anymore. It has been sold disconnected due to the fact that it was successful a dilapidated state. The existent residents besides privation him good and anticipation helium grows further. When Mithun threw a enactment successful a hotel, helium took america each determination successful a car.” She added that his past sojourn to the vicinity was for his girl Dishani Chakraborty’s annaprashan (rice ceremony).

Recalling a caller sojourn from Mithun’s lad Namashi Chakraborty up of his movie Bad Boy (2023), she said, “He came, paid his respects to maine and took my blessings. Although I initially refused to travel retired due to the fact that determination were galore radical outside, I yet did astatine his insistence. He told maine that 1 of his films was releasing the adjacent time and asked for my blessings. He adjacent hugged me.”