June 18, 2026 08:04 am (IST)
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Actress Pallavi Chatterjee turns film producers, forays into thriller genre
Kolkata, May 30 (IBNS) Bengali actress Pallavi Chatterjee now turns producer roping in a young director of several small budget films as the 'captain of ship' for the upcoming Gameplan, a thriller.
Pallavi, who will equate her debut film production with a new entrant in Bollywood which will be vying for audience attention along with reigning kings like Amitabh Bachchan, tells IBNS 'Gameplan' is based on her own story.
"I had often felt the need to make a film like the late 70's Bengali blockbuster Lalkuthi. But while I had worked with all major directors from Aparna Sen to Anjan Dutt, that was someone else's project. In their films as an actor I had been asked to deliver but it was not my baby.So another Lalkuthi did not happen though I felt the need in the intervening period so long I could myself wear the director's hat," Pallavi says.
"Now I am not saying Gameplan will entirely bring back the Lalkuthi flavor in the contemporary mould. It is an out and out new story. Nor am I saying it will usher in a change in the concept of thriller genre films in Bengali in recent years. But certainly it will have a unique treatment and presentation, which will bear my style as well as the style of director Anindyo who had previously made wonderful relationship tales and content-rich movies.
"Gameplan has shaped up exactly the way we had envisaged and it will now be released in June,," Pallavi, whose portrayal as a Burrabazar-based marwari housewife in Anjan Dutt's Ganesh Talkies was commended by discerning audiences, explains.
About the success of Prosenjit's Sankhachil, Pallavi says, "I am happy with that. And if Sankhachil (by Goutam Ghosh) can be called the Amitabh Bachchan in Bollywood industry, my baby Gameplan is the new debutante actor in the same industry who expects to be received well by the fans in the same way," she reiterated drawing interesting parallels.
About casting Mahesh Thakur of Hum Saath-Saath Hain fame as the protagonist sleuth in her film, Pallavi says his height, personality and intelligence made him the perfect choice and not solely his all India appeal.
"Me and my director discussed and decided that only Mahesh could be our protagonist with his sharp looks," she says.
'My favourite thriller in English is offcourse the Alfred Hitchcock films but Gameplan is very, very Bengali in sentiment," the sister of superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee says.
Director Anindyo says: "Mahesh's accent was a little anglicised mixed with Hindi but he mastered the Bengali dialogues in quick time like a professional actor."
Anindyo also expresses wish to team up with friend-actor Paoli Dam in future works after Chhaya Manush.
Pallavi, however, strangely refuses to comment on Prosenjit-Rituparna coming together in Praktan, 15 years after their last Bengali feature film which is running to packed houses.
"Here ask about my film," Pallavi, who had been seen with Prosenjit in several events in public, cryptically says.
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