Forty years of Prosenjit Chatterjee: The superstar on his 15 best roles

We suddenly have two back-to-back great Prosenjit Chatterjee performances. Atanu Ghosh’s Bengali-language film Shesh Pata stars Chatterjee as a maverick writer. In the Hindi-language Prime Video show Jubilee, Chatterjee plays a hard-nosed film studio boss.

Chatterjee’s performances over many of his 300-odd films feel effortless. But Chatterjee will have you know that there has been a pointed and motivated application of his skills over the years.

“After Amar Sangi, I had been slotted as a romantic hero for seven-eight years,” the 60-year-old superstar told Scroll. “My identity was Biswajeet Chatterjee’s son, a sweet good-looking boy who can dance. I moved into action with Asha O Bhalobasha, where I fight a leopard. We came to a situation where Prosenjit meant action. I’d go to high society parties and I’d be talked about in a certain way. With Ritu [Rituparno Ghosh], I took up the challenge of being recognised at film festivals. I did films with Ritu, Goutam Ghose, Buddhadeb Dasgupta. Suddenly, Prosenjit became Prosenjit babu.”

In an interview, Chatterjee discussed his 15 most iconic roles, from his early films to Jubilee and Shesh Pata.

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