20 yrs from now can tell people I did 'Apu': Parambrata

Humbled by the praises for his role as grown-up real life 'Apu' in the Kaushik Ganguly-directed IFFI silver winner, actor Parambhrata Chattopadhyay says he can at least tell his grandchildren that he was part of an epic one day.
"Yes, whoever doesn't want to be part of an epic? I feel humbled and honoured by the lovely words. Every actor intends to be part of a project which stands the test of time. And I put my soul as Subir in 'Apur Panchali," Parambrata, who enacts the dis-enchanted Subir Bandyopadhya away from the razzmatazz of film festivals, said.
"I can tell my grand children one day that I did a film like Apur Panchali," Parambrata, essaying the young Rabindranath in Suman Ghosh's 'Kadombori' said.

Young actor Gourab Chakroborty, who chornicled the journey of Subir to the heritage Boral hamlet where the film was shot on celluloid, said, "I was always enamoured by Apu, his inquisitiveness, wanderlust. From a very young age I had watched Pather Panchali several times. Never had dreamt will be part of any film with references to the characters and the place."
Director Raj Chakroborty, busy with shooting period film 'Yoddha', dubbed 'Apur Panchali' as not only epical in feel but a dyed-in-wool Bengali film made in the contemporary times.
"The subject of the film has epical elements and it will be part of film folklore with the references to the Ray trilogy," the Proloy director said about the Shree Venkatesh production.