This is the Byomkesh Bakshi yarn that Rituparno Ghosh could not complete. After he passed away, Sujoy Ghosh had to step in to complete Ritu’s farewell stab at immortality.
12 years of Satyanweshi: When Rituparno Ghosh’s last film was completed by Sujoy Ghosh
A thing of beauty is a ‘Sujoy’ forever? This would certainly be an applicable observation going by the options being explored to see a quick and favourable finish to Rituparno Ghosh last work Satyanveshi.
Sujoy said, “There was the whole team to support Rituda’s film. There was specially Aveek Sarkar, the cinematographer who was with Ritu on many of his final films. The important thing was to make sure Ritu’s name and reputation were not compromised in any way.”
But to take over the post-production reins of Satyanveshi was not as easy for Sujoy as it sounds.
Said Sujoy, “I came on board as an actor. When I reached the location for Ritu, I had left behind my vocation as a director. It took me a few days to acclimatize myself to the new role. But once I did I was all there. I forgot that I was a filmmaker. To look at this film from the eyes of a director was difficult for me.”
The next level of challenge for Sujoy was to dub for Satyanveshi. “Just two days before he passed away, Ritu called to discuss the dubbing. As we all know Ritu was very very particular about the dubbing. And my Bengali is shaky. Ritu planned to sit with me for the dubbing.”
Looking back in fond regret, Sujoy said, “When Ritu da convinced me to come on board as an actor, I had to surrender completely to his vision. That took a while. But finally I cracked the code for how to be an actor and not a director. I learnt so much from Ritu on cinema. I thought I was Satyajit Ray’s greatest fan until I met Ritu. I made one mistaken observation about Ray’s cinema and I was scolded for the entire day by Ritu. Now, both Ray and Ritu must be discussing cinema up there.”
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