Anindya adopts a ‘neri’

Anindya Chatterjee is a proud pet parent now! After nurturing his three pups — two labs, Kiki and Sia, and a

French bulldog

, Nina — the actor has not adopted an orphan stray, who was rescued by a group of pet lovers recently. The cute black baby — Indian

pariah dog

— is about a month old.

“This is a neri and I am calling it

Bhutu

. It is a rescued puppy. When I saw the video of his rescue I almost broke into tears. His mother and all her other litter died. This one survived. When I got it, it was malnourished and underweight. Kiki, Sia and Nina are pretty happy to get a new kid on the block. Meanwhile, I am very happy that I could give him home,” the actor said.

Anindya, an ardent pet lover, said that it will provide the puppy “everything that it needs”. “In many cases, we see these kids can endure more than the other breeds. I hope Bhutu will cope well with us,” he said.

The actor is also busy with his films. While he has wrapped up his work in Belashuru, his next, Indrasis Acharya’s Parcel, has already been premiered in the 25th

Kolkata International Film Festival

. “Both his previous films, Bilu Rakkosh and Pupa were critically acclaimed and I wanted to work with him,” said Anindya. Indrasis bagged the

Hiralal Sen

Memorial Award for Best Direction in Indian Language Films category in the festival. The film revolves around six central characters and Anindya plays one of them. Rituparna Sengupta is on board to play a key role, while talks are on with Saswata Chatterjee, Ambarish Bhattacharya, Damini Basu and others.