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What is the matter? Are

you thinking I'm a fool?

All of you get out.

What are you thinking of,

sabotaging my play?

What is your intention?

You are unnecessarily angry,

brother Shankar.

Whether it is

necessary or not I will decide.

There can't be smoke without fire

or is it all a fable created by you?

You already know the whole thing.

I want to hear it from you.

Jyoti brought me a movie offer.

What movie?

- Debi Choudrani.

What role?

- The hero.

Brajeswar! That non-entity?

Nothing has been decided.

They have called me

for a screen test.

What you said to them?

- I haven't said anything yet.

I'm telling you. You won't get it.

When you say so I will not get it.

But I have no intention of sabotaging

your play and doing a movie.

Listen, Arindam.

I know that there

is glamour in movies

but there is no art there

and movies have

nothing to do with art.

Especially for the actor.

There is no contribution

from him at all.

And there can never be.

This I'm saying with

full knowledge about movies.

I have read about movies in detail.

A movie actor is

nothing but a puppet

a puppet in the

hands of the director.

A puppet in the hands

of the camera man

and in the hands

of the sound recorder.

He is also a puppet

in the hands of the editor

who cuts and pastes the movie.

One more thing. The source of

inspiration for a stage actor is

the viewers, the shadows

of the black heads

that you see

while acting on stage.

Those are ones that give you

the energy, the inspiration

and you want to

totally avoid them.

The real thrill of acting,

remains

in the movies. Where

will you find it there?

Is this all only more money?

I'm not saying that you

will not be successful.

You have the personality

and also the voice.

You may be successful.

I have to tell you one more thing.

Movies also have a business side.

It is heartless and merely

a game of supply and demand.

Once you have two consecutive hits

you climb the ladder very fast.

When your third and then

the fourth flops then

you will suddenly

notice that the ladder

you climbed has been taken

away by somebody.

Then they will drop you.

You will fall on

your face and then

you can never get up.

You will be finished for all time.

Have you understood?

That was brother Shankar.

Of course I wouldn't say

that he was totally wrong.

But in your case it wasn't

correct, was it?

On the festival day

the play was staged.

Then the festival

came to an end

and the goddess

was to be immersed.

In our locality the statue of the

goddess was in traditional style.

It was as per brother Shankar's idea.

He always wanted

the statue made like that.

He said this would inspire all of us.

Hail the mother goddess Durga!

Let me through.

Brother Shankar.

Brother Shankar.

Such a giant of a man

died in front of my eyes.

Thrombosis.

I had seen my parents

die when I was young.

I had carried the coffins of

a lot of relatives and others.

I had developed a

careless attitude

towards death.

However I could not take

brother Shankar's death lightly.

He who had so much life in him.

How could his

life end so suddenly?

Something surprising

happened in the crematorium.

When his body was being cremated,

consumed by the flames

I felt that a change

was taking place inside me.

Jyotin.

- Yes, tell me.

Sit down.

What?

- Do you believe in rebirth?

Whose rebirth?

- Human rebirth.

Say, yours.

I am myself. How would I know

that in my next birth

Jyoti Banerjee is not reborn

as Jyoti Banerjee?

Moreover, the same things don't exist.

Hence where is the

question of belief or disbelief?

Exactly.

It is the era of master frauds,

dear brother of mine.

No rebirths and no providence.

I know. There is only one

life and hence only one chance.

What are you thinking?

- What?

What are you thinking?

Do you believe that

all movie actors are puppets?

Brando, Bogart and Paul Muni.

Are all of them puppets?

You have grown up and earn a

paltry sum of 333 rupees per month

with an annual

increment of ten rupees.

Better than that would be to be

a successful puppet and earn

20,000 rupees per movie.

They have tested of two candidates

and haven't found them ok.

No, brother Shankar must be wrong.

Yes, he must be wrong.

If you agree, then my

prestige would be salvaged.

If it had been ancient times

I would have been scared.

- Scared of what?

Brother Shankar's curse.

I decided on the spot.

Great. You look very

beautiful without the specs.

You seem to be surprised.

Why?

The moment that man died I...

That is reality.

This is what is absent in Bengali

movies, is that what you are saying?

Burdwan.

It would not be correct

for you to remain here.

Why?

It is a station and that means...

see they have recognized you.

Is that not natural?

Look at that.

It is their red letter day,

do you know that?

I know, but I am not used to this.

Do you know what they are thinking?

That I'm going for a shooting

and that you are my heroine.

What are you saying?

Why are you ashamed of

being in my company?

Why would that be?

Don't cover your face, otherwise

they will get more inquisitive.

Relax and behave normally.

Talk in a normal fashion.

Impossible.

Then shall I do the talking?

Why have you not married?

Have you ever acted?

Would you like to act in movies?

It is better that I do the talking.

Then do.

Do you

remember the first day

of your movie career?

Can anybody forget that day?

The person I remember

most is Mukund Lahiri.

Who is that behind me?

Sir, I'm Arindam Mukherjee.

Brajeswar?

- Yes sir.

Is this your first movie?

- Yes sir.

If I were to call you

Brojo would you have any objection?

I have this old habit of

calling people by the

name of their character.

This will also be useful to you.

If I address you by the name of

the character that you are playing

then it will be easy for you

to react while working in the movie.

I understand you, sir.

But don't address me as Papa.

That would become

very excessive. Only...

...smoking in

front of me! You fool!

I told you to be careful. I'll throw

away all these beards and moustaches.

Are you in pain?

Stiff neck.

I told the servant to put

the pillow in sunshine but...

Would you like a massage?

Massage?

- Yes, it would give relief.

Oh, Jack of all trades?

If not all, at least I know this.

How much time will it take?

- Not much.

You move away. Come on. -

This I learnt from brother Shankar.

I have never failed in this.

During shooting

I got a feel for his status.

Starting from the director,

everyone was scared of him.

Why is it hot? Who is

that in front of the fan?

Remember that only an

actor is indispensable.

Nothing can be done without him.

There is no assistant for him

who can get the work done.

Where is Brojo?

- Brajeswar.

I'm here sir.

Look, I don't have the patience

to read the lines again and again.

The lines may be

changed here and there

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