'Chokher Bali' actor turns low-key 'Satyaneswhi'

Chokher Bali's Mahendra Tota Roychoudhury, an integral part of numerous Tollywood flicks in past one decade, misses doing one dream role of a righteous cop in the biggest Bengali blockbuster Shotru, commercial trappings and all.
The athletic built actor, equally adept in grey shaded characters in Ray trilogy tribute of Arindam Sil's Abarto and comedy on fragility of relationships in Biye Not Out, says being a sub-inspector in Hatath Ekdin can't equal the do-gooder 'Bhalo police' in the Anjan Choudhury caper starring Ranjit Mallick.
"I had often told Anjanda, what a fascinating role. May be the songs, the situations were a bit contrived those days. May be the dialogue delivery was not as snappy as now, but till this date Shatru remains my all time favourite, and having portrayed cops in diffetent films, I miss that role by Ranjit Mallick," Tota said.

Tota comes up in the life of a wannabe model and her fashion photographer friend in Hatath Ekdin and avers his close observation of the lower ranked thana cops helped in fleshing out the sniffing sub-inspector.
"There are actors like Paran Bandyooadhya whi extracts the best from you," Tota said.
Offering to call himself as the 'one more attuned to use his magajastro' in a film, Tota said, "Yes you might call my lower level cop as the humble, true-blue bsatyaneswei in the Raj Mukherjee film.

"It is an urban comedy on relationship of couples and many attendant things. It talks abouit the aspirations of present day women portrayed through my role of a wannabe fashion model," Rachna Banerjee, actress, said.

Referring to the shift in characters and plots in Bengali films for past couple of years, she said, "There had been shifts from pure mainstream gharana to more realistic genre as the audience is evolving."
Director Raj said 'Hatah Ekdin' can be called a film having references to casting couch in the industry and the abuse of women in the show biz industry.