Sujoy Ghosh REVEALS the reason why Abhishek Bachchan was chosen to play Bob Biswas instead of Kahaani actor Saswata Chatterjee – FilmyVoice
Ever because the trailer of Bob Biswas was launched on-line, followers have been asking the explanation behind the casting of Abhishek Bachchan as Bob Biswas as a substitute of Bengali actor Saswata Chatterjee who made the character in style in Kahaani. Author Sujoy Ghosh has lastly answered the most typical fan query.
As everyone knows that Bob Biswas is a spin-off to the sooner Kahaani launched in 2012, during which Bob’s character was portrayed by Saswata Chatterjee. Regardless of being a Bengali actor with out having any presence in Hindi movie earlier than, Saswara portrayed the character with utmost conviction on display screen that it grew to become fairly pure for the followers to see him because the face of the character.
As there’s a completely different sort of curiosity across the movie over its casting, the movie’s author Sujoy Ghosh stated that casting Abhishek Bachchan as Bob Biswas was a acutely aware choice. “It was a really acutely aware choice of casting a brand new actor to play Bob Biswas as a result of I needed to maneuver away from ‘Kahaani’, this isn’t that movie. The world of this movie is completely different. This can be a new movie, which has its personal standing,” he advised IANS.
He additional added, “By means of this movie, we have now tried to create a brand new world of Bob Biswas which has a recent new perspective to the story. That’s in reality, one of many the reason why I didn’t direct the movie. Within the earlier movie, when the introduction of Bob occurred (referring to ‘Kahaani’) he solely had a presence of eight minutes. Now, we have now a full story on him.”
When Sujoy was given an instance of the movies made by iconic filmmaker Satyajit Ray casting the identical two actors for 3 completely different movies based mostly on the identical characters, Sujoy stated that had he directed Bob Biswas, he would have positively chosen Saswata within the movie.
“I’m saying it isn’t unattainable to recreate the world of Bob Biswas the place Saswata who performed Bob earlier might be forged. In actual fact, if I used to be helming the movie, Saswata would have been a alternative, however Diya is directing the movie and that is the selection she made. She has her imaginative and prescient to the movie. Our thought is to create a brand new movie, during which the world of Bob is completely different from what we have now seen in ‘Kahaani’,” sai Sujoy who has written Bob Biswas, directed by Diya Annapurna Ghosh.
The crime-drama set towards the backdrop of a love story, showcasing the twin life led by contract killer, Bob Biswas. The movie which was shot in Kolkata and likewise stars Chitrangda Singh. That is the primary time the followers will get to see Abhishek in a never-seen-before avatar during which his look is nearly unrecognisable as a semi-bald and chubby middle-aged man.
Produced by Pink Chillies Leisure, Bob Biswas additionally options Chitrangada Singh, Paran Bandopadhyay, and Tina Desai, amongst others. It releases on December 3 on ZEE5.
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