Kolkata: Mirroring real life, celebrated actor Sabyasachi Chakraborty and his mother Monika are enacting mother-son relationship in the Bengali feature film 'Flop-e' made by debutante director Pritam Sarkar. "This is the first time we are acting as mother and son on screen," said Sabyasachi, who has starred in films like Rajkumar Santoshi's 'Khakee', Mira Nair's 'The Namesake' and Pradip Sarkar's 'Parineeta'.
The leading Bengali actor portrays the role of a superstar, also called Sabyasachi in the film, caught between personal grief and contractual obligation to endorse a brand even during an hour of grief following the passing away of his mother.
"Mother said it is cinema, let's portray the scene as the situation demands," he said about the sequence where the fictional star carries the body of mother.
Director Sarkar said that Sabyasachi convinced his mother to face the camera again after a long time.
Monika Chakraborty, sister of late theatre personality Bijan Bhattacharya, had earlier acted in Bengali films like 'Lathi' besides serials as 'Tero Parban'" in the earlier days besides acting on stage.
'Flop-e', with a film-within-a-film concept, revolves around the story of a corporate hotshot, who has never tasted failure in life, investing in a business plan which is destined to flop, and he also dwelt on the issues like rat race in education, the conflict between career and creativity, Sarkar said.
The film, produced by Sixth Sense Entertainment, has been premiered at London Film Festival in October while two foreign film festival authorities have shown interest in it.
"We are expecting a formal response by the end of this month," Sarkar said.
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