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I internalized playing Uttam Kumar-inspired role in Mahanayak: Prosenjit

India Blooms News Service | | May 12, 2016, at 06:21 pm

Kolkata, May 12 (IBNS) Tollywood big cheese Prosenjit Chatterjee says he feels very excited to portray the matinee idol in the near completed tele soap Mahanayak, largely inspired by the life and times of Uttam Kumar.

"I won't use words like challenging to describe how I feel when I face the camera as Mahanayak. It's a blessing for me. There is scope to fall in love with the character and you can relate," Prosenjit tells IBNS during an exclusive interview for promotion of his upcoming film Praktan where he reunites with heroine Rituparna Sengupta after over a decade's time.

"The more I took part in the shooting for Mahanayak, the more I have an intimate knowledge about the history of those times (of 60s-70s). As I enact certain incidents which took place in the superstar's life I do realise similar things had happened to me. I do internalise a bit," Prosenjit, sporting the clean shaven familiar look of Uttam Kumar for shooting purpose, says.

Praktan, the tale of relationships with an ex-factor which none of the cast and director duo Shiboprosad Mukhopadhyay-Nandita Roy is willing to divulge, will be released on May 27 and is an Eros International film.

Coming to his international ambitions, Prosenjit reveals he had been offered the role of a Brahmin in an international project days after 'Moner Manush' but could not give the dates.

"Unlike India where a casting director may see your credentials on net, internationally it is solely the domain of agencies and that involved lots of time, planning and money as well, however big you are as a star."

"Talks are going on at two-three places, let's see. I don't want to be stuck in one place. Want to make the ascent as an actor to higher level" the Sanghai actor says.

"I have plans to take Sankhachil to international film festivals. The global film fraternity should see our works and our genre of films," he signs off.

Image: Facebook page of Prosenjit

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