Top 60 Saswata Chatterjee Quotes

Here in Bengal the production has to work under more pressing schedules partly caused by monetary reasons as the shooting has to be wrapped up within a limited number of days to prevent cost overrun and hence there is not much scope to rethink and alter.

See, a villain takes the story forward. If everything centers around nice people, then there will be no twists and turns.

Acting is the only profession in the world where you can travel and see various places without having to spend money from your own pocket.

I am not in favor of any sequel to ‘Kahaani.’ Even if there is any, I don’t think I will be part of that. My character in the movie is over and done with.

I don’t actually need a phone because wherever I go, it’s always pre-planned. I have never faced problems for not using a mobile phone, maybe because I am still not used to checking WhatsApp messages.

Sometimes I ask myself if I’m accepting too many films.

My only resolution in life is to remain fit and healthy, as health is wealth.

Besides, I have seen people becoming helpless when they lose their mobiles. It’s actually worse than drug addiction.

I can’t run away from my prior commitments in Tollywood just because I have an offer from Bollywood.

And with Sushant Singh Rajput, I never felt like he was the star of the film because of his humble nature. We used to hang out together after work.

I lead a simple lifestyle but that doesn’t mean I am a foolish simpleton!

During my adolescent years, I watched a lot of theatre. I had the habit of enacting every scene I saw in front of the mirror.

I did not have to think much doing Bob Biswas in ‘Kahaani.’

It’s true that I am not an active social media user.

In fact, in childhood, I was scared to watch a film in a dark theatre.

In some cases, mobile phones have made people extremely unsocial. I don’t like that.

I am grateful to Robi Ghosh, who used to praise me a lot. It is because of him that I got the lead role in ‘Kalpurush,’ my first Hindi serial.

Smartphones are good but I often ask myself whether I am good enough to handle it. Like, few days ago I saw a man talking over his phone while crossing the road. And I was driving then. I was surprised to see he didn’t even look at the car in front of him.

I have introduced my daughter to the literary classics and landmark Bengali films. I want her to be well-versed in English but not at the cost of Bengali.

Like ‘Ram Jaane,’ ‘Mon Churi’ also looks at the darker side of life and encapsulates the story of human beings who live on the fringes of society. But the plots are different.

The first condition for comedy is that if you laugh at your own jokes, others won’t laugh. You have to say something funny very seriously.

Bob has died in ‘Kahaani’ and so the tag should not be anymore with me now.

There have been times I have stood in for women.

Playing difficult characters is definitely challenging but playing the Mahanayak is not only difficult but one can’t prepare himself for such roles as no preparation is enough for these kind of roles.

I don’t want to be stuck with one character in my film career.

See, Independence means freedom, for me, more specifically, freedom of speech which we seem to have lost.

It is not always important that you have dialogues. How you present your role depends on the director and the cameraman; the actor also has few things to do.

The day Bengali cinema lost touch with literature and started aping the south, the middle class audience stopped going to the cinema halls and later the larger audience too stopped going.

If I am traveling to remote places, I carry an ordinary phone because sometimes there’s no option.

The only problem with a TV serial is you never know where it will go.

I think from ‘Hemanta’ to ‘Eagler Chokh’ and ‘Natoker Mato’ in between, there has been Shakespearean touch in Bengali films and that is because Bengalis are hooked to theater.

The very name of the thriller ’89’ suggests that there is suspense.

There is a huge amount of teamwork that is involved in the project which makes ‘Bishprantar’ extra special and very close to my heart.

The phone will always ring. If I leave it even for a moment and go some where, by the time I come back there will be at least 50 missed calls. I will then get confused as to who to call and who not to, so it’s simpler to live with out a cellphone.

Any good script makes the job of an actor easier.

If I’m out for a shoot, I provide someone else’s number to my family for any emergency. Otherwise, I have a landline at home.

I would love to play a deaf-mute in a film.

In ‘Kahaani,’ I did not have more than 15 minutes in the whole movie and my character has dialogues for not more than two minutes. Still,the audience remember me for that role.

Everything will follow if you are physically and mentally fit.

I give nod to roles only when it excites me.

A directors vision starts getting shape and contours as the shooting progresses and those involved in the process feel happy to see the scenes as depicted actually coming to life.

I am looking forward to doing roles in Hindi films but have to watch my step.

What’s exciting is that after all these years, I have made my Bollywood debut. And the reach of the Hindi film industry is huge.

Nobody knows when they sign a film that the role they are playing will be a huge hit.

Directors didn’t flood me with offers because I was Subhendu’s son. I had to slog to find my foothold.

I still can’t get over Sushant Singh Rajput’s demise. I got to work with him in ‘Dil Bechara.’ He was such a jovial and promising guy with no starry tantrums.

Once I went to watch ‘Hatari’ with my Mama and there was a rhino attack scene where I cried so much that they had to take me back home at interval.

It’s true I was approached for ‘Heroine’ but I couldn’t do the film as the dates were clashing with Kamaleswar Mukherjee’s film ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’ based on the life of Ritwik Ghatak, where I played the lead.

After all these years of Independence, after celebrating this special occasion for all these years, why there’s no drinking water that’s free of cost? Why we have to buy packaged mineral water?

I don’t think an actor should have any particular image, and that’s the reason I would not ever take up a similar role again.

I have to grab audience attention even if I don’t last beyond 2-3 minutes before the camera.

Having payesh and five types of vegetable fries is a must in our house on birthdays. It is a kind of ritual.

I grew up watching Ritwik Ghatak, Satyajit Ray and Mirnal Sen’s works in my youth, which was a very turbulent phase in Bengal’s history.

I had directed some tele films years ago.

It’s been some time now, but I still feel I am living a dream. It’ll take time to register.

If any director offers my role to some other actor just because he can’t trace me, then I think the character was never meant for me.

I am surprised that everyone loves a criminal. It amazes me and I really don’t know how to react to it. Bob Biswas has become some sort of an idol, which is interesting because such a thing has happened for the first time.

I look like a typical Bengali. Whereas the qualities people were used to seeing in heroes were dance and action, which aren’t really Bengali characteristics.

In every profession there might be some who think they have been ditched. But we have to come out of this mental state. Don’t let this stay in your mind for long.

We have to be cautious, we can’t let negativity spread like wildfire.