Actor-turned-minister Bratya Basu says bengali directors are now more experimenting with the thriller genre mustering the courage to try non-conventional subjects.
Actor-turned-minister Bratya Basu says bengali directors are now more experimenting with the thriller genre mustering the courage to try non-conventional subjects.
Bratya, a known name in film and stage plays, told PTI on the sets of Kalkiyug, where he is an IPS, that present day directors may be less bothered about the audience backing and more concerned on how to handle unconventional subjects.
"Yes it is true we are more having adult thrillers, not 'maramari' (action-based) kind of thrillers. With the global profile of the Bengali, the subject of our thrillers are also evolving," Bratya said about Debarati Gupta's second debut work which he described as psycho thriller of sorts.
About sharing screen space for the first time with friend-compatriot-school friend theatre personality Debshankar Haldar, Bratya said, "We had been collaborating on stage for long. Without him my two important works Ruddhasangeet and Winkle Twinkle would not have been possible."
"However, in the film Muktodhara despite being part of the cast, we had never been pitted against each other. So Kalkiyug happens to be our first duet on celluloid," Bratya, portraying the real life character of a mercurial playwright of 70s in Debesh Chatterjee's Natoker Mato quipped.
Coming to the title, Bratya said the name was also a fusion between the phrase 'Kaliyug' and the 'Kalki' apocalyptic avatar of Vishnu and indicated the ensuing confusion prevalent in the present times. Bratya essayed ACP in the film produced by Macneill Media Pvt Ltd.
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