What impression has left director Pradeep Sarkar left on you?
Pradeep has great aesthetic eye and what I like about his aesthetics is that it is so Indian which is very endearing. Today you do not see filmmakers depicting India, Indian culture, Indian language, Indian clothes and Indian tradition the way it should be. They have become so westernized. I loved the way he does all of this with perfection. When I was working with him in Laaga…I felt I had gone 30 years back as if I was working with Hrishikesh Mukherjee or Gulzar. That’s the kind of pleasure I got.
With Rani, Konkana, Pradeep Sarkar and you too being a Bengali, it must have been an out-and-out Bong territory.
It is always that the captain of the ship decides the mood. Pradeep is so obviously and so obsessively Bengali that even non-Bengalis became Bengalis for the entire year while we were shooting for the film. And that includes Kunal, Abhishek and the technical unit as well.
How was it filming Laaga…in a holy place like Benaras?
It was nice, except for the fact that we took turns in the unit for falling sick. I think the bonding started with Benaras where we all clicked as a group. Later, when we met in Bombay for the shoot which was held indoors, it was like one big family getting together for a wedding.
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