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Jul 18, 2024 06:23 AM IST
Aishwarya Rai made her debut in Bengali cinema with Rituparno Ghosh’s Chokher Bali. The movie was an adaptation of a novel by Rabindranath Tagore.
Aishwarya Rai performed Binodini in Chokher Bali, the 2003 movie directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The movie additionally starred Prosenjit Chatterjee (of Scoop, Jubilee fame) and Tota Roy Chowdhury (Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani fame) in pivotal roles. In a brand new interview with Mamaraazzi, Prosenjit recalled the expertise of working with Aishwarya within the movie, and revealed she used to eat kachori (Bengali snack) for breakfast throughout the shoot. He additionally questioned why he and the director had been at loggerheads with one another. (Additionally learn: Prosenjit Chatterjee unique interview: ‘What’s Business Cinema? I additionally need to know’)
What Prosenjit stated
In the course of the interview, Prosenjit stated, “Aishwarya was superb. She could be very candy. Abhishek [Bachchan] is one the sweetest boys I’ve met. I believe he’s very affectionate, very good. Me and Ritu [Rituparno Ghosh] have performed loads of movies, we had been mates however we used to struggle quite a bit on units. In Bengali, we used to get mithai (sweets) and kachori within the morning on set. She used to eat all of these and say, ‘You might be topmost hero, he’s topmost director, why are you preventing?’”
‘We had loads of daring and emotional scenes’
Prosenjit went on so as to add that additionally they shared daring scenes within the movie, including, “At any time when we went on the set, it was like one thing magic occurs. She was very good. Each second was great. We had loads of daring and emotional scenes in Chokher Bali and every thing was performed nicely as a result of Ritu was there.”
Chokher Bali was an adaptation of the titular novel by Rabindranath Tagore. The movie starred Aishwarya as a widow who has an affair with Prosenjit’s character in a 19th Century Bengali family. Chokher Bali was obtained with reward and went on to win three Nationwide Awards.
Prosenjit was final seen within the Bengali movie Ajogyo with Rituparna Chatterjee. Aishwarya’s final launch was Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan II.
