He stalks girls on lonely streets, clicks them on his phone, and gets off in his dingy room at night! You will hate Ritwick Chakraborty’s Rony, the pervert in Utsav Mukherjee’s Bheetu (which released on February 27 and is still drawing ’em in). “A girl wrote on my Facebook wall that she wants to slap me after watching Bheetu. That’s a great feedback!” laughed Ritwick, who decodes three defining scenes from the film.

Come on, scratch that stomach!

Rony is very dark, a pervert and I knew people would hate him. I accepted the role because we don’t get to play such characters often. It was all the more interesting because there was no reference point for me. Utsav just narrated the character and I said yes. As far as the masturbation scenes were concerned, I was absolutely fine with them. I believe an actor must have certain skills apart from acting. Like he must be able to dance, fight…I don’t have these two skills. I can’t dance, I have a lot of inhibitions. But the masturbation scene is something I knew I could pull off. See, cinema is all about magic. During that scene, I was actually scratching my stomach! (Laughs) That’s the fun of being an actor. So instead of being shy of the crew I was most comfortable and the crew had a good laugh after the scene was over. But having said that, I am not inhibition-free. I wouldn’t want my mom to see that scene from Bheetu. My other  inhibition is I can’t smooch or kiss on screen.

Paying for a brutal bout of sex

I was most worried about the technical bit. The camera placement, the frame... because the scene was with a new girl and we had to make her comfortable. We tried to make it a one-shot okay. When I was doing the scene I was telling myself that this is what Rony does, I am not Rony! Since in the scene Rony is making out with a prostitute, he is having paid sex, and then asks her to leave her undergarments with him!

Stealing her undergarments and keeping them in a trunk 

See, to establish my character these scenes were important. While doing the scene I was telling myself this is something that Rony does, not Ritwick! All I want to say is that it’s not easy being an actor. Acting is just one department; there are a hundred other departments that an actor must excel in. There are so many departments that I haven’t yet ventured into. But enacting all the above discussed scenes was very easy for me!

Utsav on Ritwick’s Rony: Ritwick is very uninhibited and the best thing about him is that he doesn’t judge
a character. Most of these shots were okayed in one or two takes. The feedback has been tremendous, mostly from the women. They just hate Rony.

Kushali Nag
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