Asked how he changed his acting skills from the days of Chalchitra to the present Dutta Vs Dutta, the Ranjana Ami Aar Asbona maker said "Acting remained the same forever, expressions remained the same.
"How can you change your methodology. I didnot change the way I delivered dialogues in Dutta vs Dutta and Kharij or Yuganta for that matter," the Bong Connection director told PTI.
Anjan, however, felt there lies a scarcity of new generation actors with intellect.
"The acting pattern has remained the same. But there remains a dearth of intellect among the present generation actors. But again there are people like Ranadeb Bose in Dutta vs Dutta portraying my childhood as young Anjan with such aplomb and finesse," he said.
Coming to the movie, Anjan said unlike many other Tollywood films, which had dwelt on the Bengal of 1970s, but mostly focussed on the Naxalite movement and associated violence and controversy, "I have sought to capture the College Street scene, Pub Culture of Park Street and the emergence of Goutam Chattopadhyay and his legendary rock band "Mohiner Ghoraguli" of that period.
"And this movie wouldnot have been possible had Orion Entertainment not liked my script and encouraged me to go ahead since the subject sounded so unconventional from run-of-the-meal films," he said.
Young, populat director Srijit Mukerji, partly credited with effecting the turnaround in Bengali arthouse films by making them more acceptable to the audience, said, "While in the film my character is that of a mentor of the protagonist."