Not outright ruling out a sequel to Proloy, his populist genre film on the real life abuse of women in a North 24 Parganas village years back, Director Raj Chakraborty, however, would count on the mass response to his flick which he would term as a protest to the social evils.
"How can I say this. It all depends on how this Proloy is taken by the audience, how they interprete this fictional documentation of society at that time," the Kanamachhi director told PTI during the premier of the film last evening.
Raj, who would describe Proloy as his form of protest after reading the crusade of teacher-social activist youth Barun Biswas and his followers in Sutia village, where scores of women had been brutalised by miscreants, backed by political parties five years back, said it was upto the audience to interprete the topicality or universality of the very issue.
"If the film, with dollops of entertainment, strikes up the right chord in the audience mind, that would serve the cause of the cast and the crew and the director, the ultimate visionary having etched out the whole project," one of the main actors of the film, Paran bandyopadhyay, the fictional destroyer of evils, said.
Director Birsa Dasgupta averred that in the light of the 'Nirbhaya' incident in Delhi, the recent tales of abuse of women in Bengal and elsewhere, the issue of Proloy remained topical and relevant till this date.
