Actor Indraneil Sengupta doesn't miss essaying the role of popular fictional sleuths as Bomkesh and Feluda despite being a versatile new age actor.
Speaking to PTI on the sets of Sajaruru Kanta, a period themed thriller of the popular sleuth penned by Saradindu, Indraneil said, "I don't regret having not been offered any role of Bomkesh or Feluda by any director."
"It is the director's prerogative which way to cast, how to cast with my consent. My job is to retain the attention of the audience in the frames. And I don't want to be typecast," Indraneil, having been cast along with Rituparno Ghosh as a gay friend in Arekti Premer Galpo, said.
"Also Dhritiman da (Chatterjee) is the perfect choice in Sajaruru Kanta due to his cerebral countenance. Here it has to be an elderly Bomkesh Bakshi and who else but Dhritiman da," I guess he will be accepted by the Bengali audiences - fans of the sleuth and the other cine goers. And there will be no competition with the other Bomkesh thrillers on celluloid."
Indraneil gets to don a classically stitched dhoti and punjabi and smokes from ornate hookah pipe in the film where he enacts a passion-driven, fastidious businessman who falls in rough weathers later on caught in a triangle.
Cast opposite Konkona Sensharma for the first time, Indraneil said,"She is an intelliegent actor and a brilliant actor. Me, Konkona are in our first film together. But we had seen each other's works. It's only that directors could not give us plot enough in past."
Director Saibal Mitra said he was stickler to the real life profile of reel life actors. Sajaruru Kanta bears my film making style to narrate a story in every shot. I don't believe in disitancing my audiences," Saibal said.
Produced by Mcneil Media Pvt ltd Sajaruru Kanta also stars Pradip Mukherjee.
