Having taken up two projects almost simultaneously these days, Tollywood's most prolific realistic-mainstream genre director Raj Chakroborty says he still rates himself as a struggler.
Raj, whose 'Borbaad' starring newcomers is slated for release, told PTI, "I still consider myself a struggler, as someone who apprehends tomorrow might not be the same."
Arguing his motto is to entertain people but in realistic milieu, the director of 'Proloy', based on a real life incident of murder of a protestor against women abuse, reasoned, "I put my soul in a project. So it never looks like laboured and thrust but straight from the heart."
Raj, whose 'Yodddha' is also almost complete, said "I only work on film subjects which never bog my down with fatigue. For instance in 'Borbaad' the story has been built up on a real life incident of bike theft having taken place during my younger days."
"The settings here have been transformed into the Kolkata dock area, Metiaburuz and surroundings but the story had partly stemmed from the theft of my two-wheeler and me on the trail of the bike smuggler racket from one district to another, till the border, which brought us face to face with the gangs active in that belt, I remember.
"The bike was a symbol of male aggression to me, at such an age, the bike was my world. It's the same for every youngster of such age. So it is a simple tale which everybody can relate, not a layered one, and there are references to how the underworld functions but it is not a gangster flick.
"It's a thriller, a romantic thriller with comedy elements thrown in," the premier and India's oldest BFJA award winner said about Borbaad.
Asked why he had often cast new faces in his projects, starting from the blockbuster 'Chirodini Tumi Je Amar' in early 2000, Raj said, "I also happened to be a newcomer one day."
Borbaad, starring fresh faces Bonny, Ritika (of super hit 100 Per cent Love) and Mainak, is produced by Shri Venkatesh Films.
