Tollywood superstar Jeet turns up the new celluloid 'Boss' in a film featuring the big badworld of Mumbai as 'Big Boss' Mithun Chakroborty commences his new innings on small screen, in a happy coincidence.
Jeet, who will be unveiled in the new look 'Boss' avatar on June 14 to anoint the 11th year of his stardom, told PTI he believed the Baba Yadav film will introduce a new 'gharana' by introducing Hollywood-type sequences for the first time.
Boss is centred on gangster Surya slowly setting up his empire in Mumbai with love, power play, intrigue thrown in for equal measure, director Yadav said.
"The film is a typical spectacular action flick which has also a good, contemporary angle and story line. And I am not the protagonist per se, but my character will intrigue you a lot," the Sindhi-turned-'Bong', having grown up in south Kolkata bylanes and first having courted fame in potboiler Sathi 11 years back said.
Unlike Kolkata, which was used as locale in most Bangla movies in past, 'Boss' comes at a stage in his career, when the Bengali film industry is going through one of its most exciting phases with different genres apparently merging, a trend having taken place in Bollywood for past six years/
"Yes, you can say that. Just like I attended the premier of Aniketda's film (Mahapurush o Kapurush by Aniket Chatterjee) we as a fraternity turn up as a family in every film event, mainstream or otherwise. If I am given a rich content-driven roles I will deliver," he said.
"But I will not shift priorities. Ravi Kinnagi, Rajib (Biswas), Raja Chanda, Raj (Chakraborty) should equally keep doing their films like Tonyda (Aniruddha Roy Choudhury), Srijit and others.," Jeet said earlier at an event urging critics and media to see the work done by Baba, one of his most favourite choreographers in earlier films.
Dwelling on his career which took off over a decade back, Jeet earlier said "I liked my roles in 'Krishnakanter Will' (the Raja Sen film based on Bankim Chattopadhyay classic), Pitribhoomi and Subhodristi and Dui Prithivi as much as 100% Love, Deewana and Awara, Wanted and I can continue."
"Don't know how you will bracket my 2002 debut film Sathi opposite Priyanka Tribedi which was a total entertainer for me and clean one.
