‘Why ought to I give up social media?’

Subsequent 12 months, Srabanti Chatterjee will full 30 years within the Bengali movie business. Having began as a baby actor in 1997 with ‘Mayar Badhon’ directed by Swapan Saha, Srabanti rose to fame together with her main roles in a number of Bengali business hits corresponding to ‘Dujone’, ‘Wished’, ‘Josh’ and ‘Amanush’ to call just a few. The songs from these movies proceed to rule the charts and Srabanti usually longs to return to that period. “It was certainly a golden time. We had a lot enjoyable capturing these movies and the songs had been large hits,” she mentioned with a smile.

Right now, Srabanti has matured, each personally and professionally. Her new OTT launch ‘Thakurmar Jhuli’, directed by Ayan Chakraborti, options her in a singular position, taking part in each a grandmother and a detective.

For the position, the actress needed to acquire just a few further kilos, which sadly led to on-line trolling. In truth, Srabanti is among the Bengali actresses who has confronted relentless trolling. Just lately, the ‘Goynar Baksho’ actress filed a criticism with the cybercrime division of Kolkata Police in opposition to body-shaming. Whereas she often chooses to disregard on-line trolls, this time she felt it went too far.

“My dad and mom are additionally on social media. I’ve been trolled a number of occasions and it’s greatest to disregard it. However this time, morphed and AI-generated movies had been being circulated. My dad and mom urged me to take motion,” mentioned the ‘Kanamachi’ actress. Even the director and TMC chief Raj Chakraborty had beforehand filed a criticism in opposition to trolls when his spouse, actress Subhashree Ganguly, was focused on-line.

Nevertheless, Srabanti doesn’t imagine in stepping away from social media to ‘make area for constructive power’. “Why ought to I give up social media due to individuals who maintain no worth in my life? My real followers are inquisitive about realizing about my life. I additionally use it to advertise my work and for model collaborations. I fail to grasp how the minds of trolls function. Do they ever replicate on themselves earlier than trolling? Are they good?” she mentioned.

In ‘Thakurmar Jhuli’, Srabanti needed to seem aged, however she selected to not depend on prosthetics. “I labored on my look and that’s why I made a decision to achieve weight,” she added. In any Bengali family, ‘Thakurmar Jhuli’ by Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder is a must have and generations of youngsters have grown up studying these timeless fairy tales. Srabanti, nonetheless, most popular watching the tales fairly than studying them, usually together with her son.

When requested about returning to business potboilers, the ‘Shudhu Tomari Jonyo’ actress revealed that she even had a phrase with Dev. “I feel it’s crucial for hardcore masala movies to reach the Bengali movie business for its total well-being,” she mentioned.