Parambrata Chatterjee talked astir the diminution of mainstream Bengali cinema astatine SCREEN Live. (Express photograph by Shashi Ghosh)
Director-actor duo Srijit Mukherji and Parambrata Chatterjee attended the first-ever variation of SCREEN LIVE held successful Kolkata. During the discussion, Parambrata responded to Hindi filmmaker and histrion Anurag Kashyap’s comment, wherever helium labeled Bengali cinema arsenic “ghatia” (poor) successful examination with different determination cinema. The Kahaani histrion shared his position connected the diminution of mainstream Bengali cinema and emphasised however the wellness of mainstream cinema is intimately tied to the occurrence of its alternate cinema.
He said, “We person stopped focusing connected mainstream commercialized Bengali cinema. If mainstream cinema successful immoderate manufacture doesn’t work, past it is precise hard to marque immoderate different benignant of film. Because the assemblage size should beryllium that large that you tin devour retired of that. Our benignant of cinema (alternative cinema) thrives connected surplus. If determination is nary dependable inflow, past determination is nary surplus. There is an alienation that happened successful 2011. While Bengali cinema was seeing a resurgence of sorts done filmmakers similar Srijit da, Kaushik Ganguly and others, who were making mediate roadworthy Bengali films, the manufacture unexpectedly shifted distant from making large massy Bengali entertainers.”
Parambrata besides called retired Bengali filmmakers for dishing retired sub-standard remakes of South films that failed to entice Bengali audience. He said, “Very loosely and carelessly made South remakes were dished retired to the masses. Audience didn’t respond to that precise good arsenic they recovered the aforesaid films being dubbed successful Hindi and being aired connected nationalist channels, truthful they didn’t privation to spell backmost and ticker these inexpensive Bengali remakes of South films. The assemblage size of Bengali cinema kept reducing. Big chunk of West Bengal doesn’t ticker Bengali cinema due to the fact that they consciousness cipher cares astir them. So, it is important that wide entertainers are made successful Bengali cinema and that they fetch wealth truthful that different benignant of cinema tin beryllium made.”
Srijit Mukherji, connected the different hand, emphasized that filmmakers should absorption connected creating films that are authentic to Bengal, drafting inspiration from the occurrence of movies similar Kantara and Pushpa 2 successful the South. He stated, “You person to interruption retired of the lazy wont of remaking South Indian films. Instead, you request to connection thing indigenous, a Kantara oregon Pushpa 2 equivalent for Bengal.”
Srijit Mukherji and Parambrata Chatterjee’s latest film, Shotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu Nei, is presently moving successful theatres. The movie is an authoritative adaptation of the 1989 Hindi movie Ek Ruka Hua Faisla, which was itself a remake of the iconic American classical 12 Angry Men. In summation to Parambrata, the ensemble formed includes Kaushik Ganguly, Kaushik Sen, Ritwick Chakraborty, Anirban Chakrabarti, Ananya Chatterjee, Arjun Chakrabarty successful pivotal roles.
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