Actor

I don't think an actor should have any particular image, and that's the reason I would not ever take up a similar role again.

I will only sign on the dotted line if I feel my role is meaningful.

Long drives are stress-busters for me.

I love and enjoy playing characters with a comic streak.

I don't want to be stuck with one character in my film career.

Besides, I have seen people becoming helpless when they lose their mobiles. It's actually worse than drug addiction.

I think from 'Hemanta' to 'Eagler Chokh' and 'Natoker Mato' in between, there has been Shakespearean touch in Bengali films and that is because Bengalis are hooked to theater.

The only problem with a TV serial is you never know where it will go.

If any director offers my role to some other actor just because he can't trace me, then I think the character was never meant for me.

'Damadol' is a dig at commercial cinema where I play the role of the blunt-headed producer who loves masala flicks and feels he knows everything about films.

We have to be cautious, we can't let negativity spread like wildfire.

For me, saying 'I love you' is the same as unbuttoning the heroine's kurti.

Having payesh and five types of vegetable fries is a must in our house on birthdays. It is a kind of ritual.

I would love to play a deaf-mute in a film.

Whenever it is inspired by literature a film is elevated and the audience connects.

I have to grab audience attention even if I don't last beyond 2-3 minutes before the camera.

I do not accept a character or a script that I do not like.

My career wouldn't have taken this direction if Anjan Dutt hadn't cast me in 'Bong Connection' years back. After that, I started getting meaty roles.

I have quite a handful of projects here in Tollygunje film industry. There are films like 'Aschorjo Prodip,' where I essay a modern day salesman, and others like Aparna Sen's 'Gaynar Baksho.' Let the audience judge me for these roles.

I love comedy and my characters in Sandip Ray's 'Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy' and Anik Dutta's 'Bhooter Bhobisyot' had comic elements and I enjoyed doing such roles.