EXCLUSIVE! Prosenjit Chatterjee: ‘Every of the characters can be remembered in Netflix’s Khakee: The Bengal Chapter; everyone has an arc’

On the coronary heart of this explosive saga is its ensemble solid, together with legendary icons of Bengali cinema, Jeet and Prosenjit, fondly identified to their followers as Boss and Bumba Da aka Prosenjit Chatterjee. Set within the early 2000s, in a metropolis dominated by power-hungry gangsters & politicians, the legislation typically struggled to keep up a steadiness.

In an EXCLUSIVE interview with Firstpost’s Lachmi Deb Roy, the solid talks concerning the totally different layers of their characters. And all of us hope that
Netflix’s Khakee: The Bengal Chapter will carry Bengali cinema again on the worldwide map.

 Edited excerpts from the interview:

Prosenjit, you’re the star quite the one and the one star of Bengal, so how does it really feel to be on the worldwide platform and be a part of a sequence that’s going to launch on Netflix

 Prosenjit Chatterjee: I feel it’s a nice second for the Bengal chapter. I’ve been a part of this and it’s going to be an enormous publicity to Bengali cinema and life. And never simply because I’m a star and within the trade for 40 years. On the similar time, I’ve seen the expansion of the trade and I feel that is the correct time for the form of publicity Bengali skills want. Very long time again we did Choker Bali.

Not simply actors, it’s a nice publicity for a lot of nice Bengali technicians working for this Netflix Khakee: The Bengal Chapter. Someone telling a narrative of Bengal from the angle that we’ve got not seen earlier than and the Bengal Chapter talks about that. Largely, Bengali tales in cinema are extra of literature based mostly. This can be a very mainstream form of a present and that too on Netflix. I feel it’s a nice alternative for all of us.

You play a politician or a cop? Or a Gunda (gangster)?

You’ll have to wait and watch it. (laughs).

Chitrangada: Most gundas appear like politicians.

That’s so politically incorrect Chitrangada?

Chitrangada: Sure, I’m so politically incorrect

Aadil, w****hat was your preparation like?

Aadil Zafar Khan: The preparation was improbable. I’m enjoying a man from Bihar who has come to Bengal. I’ve a selected dialect and a approach of talking restricted to that space. I had zero reference to that. And that required going by a workshop. The script was very useful, however we wanted individuals to coach us and educate us that dialect.

Prosenjit: There are lot of Biharis in Bengal

Aadil: Each Ritwik Bhowmik and I have been collectively on the workshops. So, we turned very shut each on and off set. We had truly lots of enjoyable even earlier than we got here on set.

Ritwik, you have been there in Trendy Love Mumbai and in addition Bandish Bandits, however this can be a very totally different form of a sequence. So, did you’re taking any strain as a result of Khakee: The Bihar Chapter was additionally very profitable?

Ritwik Bhowmik: They’d a really profitable first run and it’s nonetheless doing very nicely. I felt very snug as a result of I used to be going right into a profitable franchise. I knew there was an viewers already for Khakee: The Bihar Chapter. And on the similar time, I knew that we’ve got to work very arduous. It was not pressurizing, however immensely thrilling as a result of we needed to stay as much as the expectation of the audiences as a result of there was already a gaggle of people that need to watch what will occur on this franchise and there may be going to be a brand new set of viewers that’s going to come back in for the Bengal chapter.

The Bihar Chapter was impressed from an actual story, however this can be a fictitious one, so how tough was it to know your character Chitrangada?

Chitrangada: I play a politician. The writing is the hero when it’s the lengthy format. For me, as politicians there are such a lot of references like girls politicians who’re so highly effective. So, for me watching them and their physique language. However once you see the sequence you’ll realise that it’s a lot about her as an individual and what she goes by in her private life which could be very emotional. After which how she switches her persona in entrance of the general public. I feel it’s the writing, the director which performed a vital function in build up the character. We had a good time as a result of it’s an intense function.

Cinema is altering… the place each character performs an necessary function. What do it’s important to say about that?

Prosenjit: It relies upon loads on the writing and right here each character has an arc. And all these characters have a vital function to play. Neeraj has at all times performed work with lots of huge actors, not stars. So, he is aware of deal with the dynamics. And every of the characters can be remembered in Khakee: The Bengal Chapter. Everyone has a really totally different layer.

 Ritwik Bhowmik: No two characters are the identical and even comparable.

 Aadil Zafar Khan: Every character is evolving as a result of a movie is extra like a comic book e-book and an internet present is a novel.

WATCH the trailer of Khakee: The Bengal Chapter: