Ray made me a loner on Seemabaddha's shooting floor: Barun Chanda
Veteran actor Barun Chanda was presumably not Satyajit Ray's first choice to play ambitious Shyamalendu Chatterjee in his 1971 Sharmila Tagore starring Bengali film Seemabaddha (titled Company Limited in English), which captures the vacuousness of an aspiring corporate executive's world. But with corporate background and Ray's direction, Chanda pulled off convincingly. Even after five decades since the film's release, Chanda cherishes the opportunity in an interaction with India Blooms correspondent Souvik Ghosh during the launch of the actor's book Satyajit Ray: The Man Who Knew Too Much at South City Starmark in Kolkata Thursday evening
Kolkata/IBNS: Veteran Bengali actor Ranjit Mallick, who had worked with late filmmaker Mrinal Sen at a very young age in Interview, had his luck to attract a role of a disillusioned Communist in late Satyajit Ray's 1990 film Shakha Proshakha.