An actor should be equally versatile in all genres: Deb

Giving all credit to Ritwik Ghatak biopic maker Kamaleswar Mukherjee for his much welcome changeover of image in Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay's 'Chander Pahar', Bengali superhero Deb today said he will however continue to give precedence to hardcore masala flicks like Khoka 420 and Rangbaj.
"You have just seen me matching steps with two most beautiful and daintiest girls of Tollywood in Khoka 420 title track. In next few days I will be off to South Africa to shoot for Bibhutibhusan children's classic Chander Pahar," he said.
"I believe in this switch-over, in changing roles now. I believe in giving 100 per cent to a masala film-maker like Rajiv Biswas and an avant-garde director Kamaleswar at the same time," Deb told PTI at the shooting zone of Khoka 420, produced by Eskay Movies.

Recalling what Kamaleswar had told a questioner where Deb was present after the Chander Pahar cast was announced, "Why you took a commercial actor in such a non-conventional protagonist role in Chander Pahar,", the baby-faced Tolly star said, "Kamalda replied 80 per cent audience of films worldwide view so-called commercial films.
"If Deb can emote in a formula film and liked by masses and accepted, he can emote in my kind of cinema too," Kamaleswar had retorted, the Paglu star recalled.
"Look at the response to Life of Pie, see how Tom Cruise films are received worldwide. They (the Hollywood producers) don't know the name of Mumbai, Kolkata but the audiences are the same everywhere, the universal response to a film which connects to the public shows," he said.