He left Apubut Apu never left him," Ganguly told PTI. Whatis interesting is that if you go through his life there aresome five-six portions which are similar to Apu. He hasno memory of it except Satyajit Ray giving him food or askinghim to sit quietly. "He was very tiny when he played that character. Now he is 69, pretty old andthroughout his life everyone has called him Apu. He became a clerk in one of the centralgovernment offices and took VRS. It was his only film and hehas no memory of it. "I have decided to make my film on Pather Panchali's Apu,the child actor Subir Banerjee. Kaushik Ganguly, who directed movieslike Arekti Premer Golpo and Laptop, is making a film onthe life of Subir Banerjee, the child artist who played therole of Apu in Satyajit Ray's 1955 classic Pather Panchali.Ganguly says he was intrigued when he came to know aboutSubir, now 69 years old and completely disconnected from theworld of cinema. When asked how Victor Banerjee came to be a part of the project, Ganguly says, "He liked the story and is promoting the film.It is the sheer obsession and I think it needs to be balanced." They must feel very hurt because what they are asking for is really very small. I am so obsessed with films that I tend to forget about my family. The doctor in the film is obsessed about her patient and the senior doctor (Victor) is obsessed about himself and thinks he is the best. Talking about the obsessive element of the story, Ganguly says, "We all are obsessive people.In my film, the character is a LIC agent by day and works as a Foley artist in the night." They are behind the scenes and we don't know much about them. For example, take Sholay, all the sound was done by one guy, who created Foley sound in a studio. There are millions of things happening in a scene and there is only one person making those sounds. "Foley artists are the real brave hearts.According to the director, he has deliberately not used any background score or songs in the movie. By doing that we created a new world in the studio and I started listening to Foley sound more carefully," he says. So my sound engineer decided to enhance the ambiance sound in the blindman's room because they listen more keenly and are more aware of sound. Ganguly's own experiences of playing a blind writer in his last film "Laptop" became the basis for this film's story, which he says is dedicated to unsung heroes of cinema and senior sound designer Anup Mukherjee.Starring Victor Banerjee, Raima Sen, Churni Ganguly, Ritwik Chakraborty and Srijit Mukherjee, the film is slated to release in India by the end of March.Ganguly's upcoming film Shobdo (Sound), which is having its world premiere at DIFF, deals with a Bengali Foley artiste, whose life is upside-down because he is so lost in creating ambiance sound in films that human voices stop making an impact on him. I think I will call it just Apu or Apu's Panchali (Apu's journey)," he adds. They developed an acquaintance and Ganguly decided to make a story on his life.The director, who also dabbles in acting, says initially Subir was reluctant to meet him because "he is a very ordinary man, has nothing to do with cinema and wants to live a quiet life".He called me up and said, 'you know I have met Apu', and that's the beginning of my film," Ganguly says. My cinematographer realised that this guy had the same eyes, old but the same. The student knew about his interest in cinema and told him, 'Sir, he is Apu'. "My cinematographer used to give math tuitions when he was not working and there he met a man, one of his students' uncle. Ganguly, who is presenting his "very original and very interesting" film "Sound" at the ongoing Dubai International film festival, says Subir's story came to him by coincidence.He left Apu but Apu never left him," Ganguly told PTI. What is interesting is that if you go through his life there are some five-six portions which are similar to Apu. He has no memory of it except Satyajit Ray giving him food or asking him to sit quietly. "He was very tiny when he played that character.Now he is 69, pretty old and throughout his life everyone has called him Apu. He became a clerk in one of the central government offices and took VRS. It was his only film and he has no memory of it. "I have decided to make my film on Pather Panchali's Apu, the child actor Subir Banerjee.Ganguly says he was intrigued when he came to know about Subir, now 69 years old and completely disconnected from the world of cinema. Kaushik Ganguly, who directed movies like Arekti Premer Golpo and Laptop, is making a film on the life of Subir Banerjee, the child artist who played the role of Apu in Satyajit Ray's 1955 classic Pather Panchali.
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