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Shilajit
I play Anirban Bose, who runs an ad agency and is at loggerheads with his upright college teacher wife (Anjana) over his lifestyle. Anirban wants to make his own film. He hooks up with a rich, ambitious NGO worker (Sonalee) and lands in Bangkok on the pretext of location-hunting for his film.... Anirban is definitely not Shilajit but I have seen people like him.
Sonalee Chowdhury
I play Pritha, an NGO worker who hates her promoter husband (Kharaj) for his crass, unsophisticated ways. To her, life is all about awards and recognition. Even her NGO activities are driven by a desire for fame. She has an affair with an aspiring filmmaker (Shilajit) with whom she comes to Bangkok for a holiday.... I do not identify with Pritha but it was fun to pair up with Shilajit after Chha-E Chhuti. I think we have lovely chemistry.
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Kharaj Mukhopadhyay
I play Milan Sadhukhan, a prosperous but uncouth promoter who is married to a young woman (Sonalee) from a rich family. His wife is too sophisticated for him and Milan seeks pleasure in the company of other women, like a small-time model (Kanchana) who he takes to Bangkok with him. Milan is boisterous and funny. I love his idiosyncrasies — he is scared of getting on aeroplanes and often breaks into Rafi numbers.
Kanchana Moitra
I play Nandita, who feels stuck in her marriage and is desperate for a better life. A small-time model, Nandita has a fling with a promoter, Milan (Kharaj), who she feels can get her things that her husband (Kanchan) can’t. So when Milan books tickets for Bangkok, Nandita is determined to have the time of her life. Though her ambitions are depicted in a comic and negative light, her urge for the good life is something we all would relate to.
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Rudranil Ghosh
I play Sadhucharan Das, chauffeur to a corporate high-flier (Neel) and his wife (Locket). An astrologer had once told Sadhu that his fortune lies in a foreign land. So, when ‘Madam’ asks him to go with her to Bangkok, Sadhu is convinced that his life has changed. He fantasises about ‘Madam’ and dreams of having an affair with her. Sadhu fails to grasp the complexity of relationships and his inability to cover up with lies lands everyone else in trouble. He acts as a foil for the other characters.
Swastika Mukherjee
I play Tanima, a company secretary who is very forgetful by nature. But she doesn’t get fired because her typing speed is amazing. She runs into a lot of trouble because of her absent-mindedness but she’s not at all ashamed of it. Instead she shows a lot of attitude! Her relationship with her boss is very clean.
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Kanchan Mallik
I am Priyotosh Bagchi, a timid door-to-door salesman who struggles to keep up with the aspirations of his ambitious wife (Kanchana). Opportunity to make some quick money comes in the form of a ‘Biscuit Khao, Pattaya Jao’ contest launched by the company he works for. The lucky winner is Anjana who doesn’t have anyone to accompany her on the trip. Priyotosh talks her into accommodating him. So, here he is holidaying with another woman in Bangkok!
Anjana Basu
I play Aparajita, a college teacher who cannot get along with her bohemian ad filmmaker husband (Shilajit). She is hooked to promotional offers on products and is thrilled to win a trip to Bangkok. Her husband doesn’t want to accompany her, so she decides to spite him by getting the salesman (Kanchan) of a biscuit company to tag along with her. She is probably the most introspective character in the cast.
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Locket Chatterjee
I play Anwesha Banerjee, a corporate executive who wants to strike a balance between her work and family. But her husband (Neel) knows nothing but work and spends very little time with her. Mad at her husband’s indifference, she takes her driver (Rudranil) to Bangkok where her husband has gone on work. Do they really have an affair? That’s something the audience will have to find out.
Neel Mukhopadhyay
I play Abhijit Banerjee, a corporate bigwig determined to reach the top. His wife (Locket) is peeved with his workaholic nature and things reach a flash point when Abhijit cancels a long-planned holiday to Egypt. Oblivious to his wife’s rage, Abhijit takes his pretty secretary (Swastika) to a work meeting in Bangkok. Simply because she has great typing speed! In a way, you can identify with Abhijit. He believes in what he does.
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Priya Karfa
I play a mystery woman, so mysterious that she does not even have a name! She pretends to be the wife of one of Bangkok’s dreaded gangsters and suddenly walks into the scene flaunting her power.
Rajesh Sharma
I appear in a brief cameo as the manager of the Bangkok hotel where the guests put up. This guy is an Indian who only speaks in English. When the guests talk to him in Bengali or Hindi, he pretends not to understand. So, he is aware of all the ‘mischief’ that everyone is up to!
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the necklace music do: The music launch of Sekhar Das’s February 4 release Necklace drew a host of Tolly stars to Ginger, near Hazra crossing. Among those spotted were cast members Ritwick Bhattacharya, Locket Chatterjee, Rudranil Ghosh and Rituparna Sengupta, alongside special guest Roopa Ganguly. “Several people have observed that Necklace is my first foray into the urban space,” said Das, whose earlier films had a rural setting. “I believe humour was a part of my previous films too but in Necklace the comedy quotient is higher. I have always been inspired by the humour in the works of playwrights like Chekhov and Brecht. And like my previous films, Necklace too deals with the theme of intrusion... here it’s a thief and his wife intruding the home of an upper-middle class couple,” he added. Gaurab Chatterjee of Bangla rock band Lakkhichhara makes his debut as music director with Necklace. His rock-and-roll-mixed-with-Baul number Shob bhalo chaowar struck a chord with the gathering.
NEW RELEASE DATE
A spate of Tolly releases has prompted actor Parambrata Chattopadhyay to push back the release of his directorial debut Jiyo Kaka!! by a week. The film hits the theatres on February 11, instead of February 4.
“With some of the current films enjoying an extended run at the theatres and some more films slated for release on the same day as Jiyo Kaka!!, we were finding it difficult to get convenient show timings. So we decided to push it back by a week,” said Parambrata. The other two films releasing next Friday are Bappaditya Bandopadhyay’s Kagojer Bou and Sekhar Das’s Necklace.
