Being no on-screen look-alike of any living theatre personality, he had no reference point to build up the character of a prominent dramatist in 'Natoker Mato', actor Saswata Chatterjee says.
Saswata told PTI script was his main guideline in theatre personality Debesh Chatterjee's debut featiure film inspired by the theatre movement of those times.
Drawing parallels to his role in 'Meghe Dhaka Tara', based on Ritwik Ghatak's turbulent phase of life, which also captured an important phase of Bengali theatre, the stint of Bijon Bhattacharya and Nabanna, Saswata said in Kamaleswar (Mukherjee) film my character Nilkantho Bagchhi had the reference point of Ritwik.
"However, jn Natoker Mato, the narration of the director helped flesh out the character and the script acted as the guideline," Saswata, whose character is the mentor of Kheya, the on-screen theatre personality, before divorce, says.
Recalling how activist-legends like Ajitesh Bandyopadhyay had died in early 80s, Saswata says, "I had no chance to see how they worked as when I started my career all the doyens had died."
Playwright-actor-politician Bratya Basu will be the partly real partly fictional portayal of Ajitesh Bandyopadhyay, an inseparable part of the era of Tin Poisar Pala, Antigone and Football.
