Arjun Chakrabarty on ‘Avijatrik’: We tried to be honest to Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novel

Satyajit Ray’s iconic ‘

Apu Trilogy

’ carries an emotion, especially for any Bengali cine lover. Director Subhrajit Mitra is well aware of it when started working on ‘

Avijatrik

’ and the most important aspect in his approach is how difficult it was to maintain the same sense of emotions in his film and at the same time making it relevant for today.
“I tried to remain true to the novel. The emotions are there itself. Avijatrik is based on the remaining part of the classic novel Aparajito. Classic means it is relevant beyond the confinement of time and space. The emotions and the journey are relevant to everyone, irrespective of their nationality, class and social strata, irrespective of the time. That’s the very reason Avijatrik has already garnered 18 laurels so far across the globe from the A-listed international film festivals,” Subhrajit shared with ETimes during an exclusive chat.

Meanwhile,

Arjun Chakrabarty

who plays Apu in the film is lucky to be a part of ‘Avijatrik’. “Hats off to the meticulously researched script, make-up, production design and costumes. These departments made the performers’ jobs easy. Avijatrik takes off right where

Apur Sansar

ended and we know how timeless these films are. So we just had to be honest to

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

’s novel. There was never going to be an attempt to make it fit into a 21st-century mould. Old stories and their emotions are never stuck in time. We always feel the way previous generations felt,” said Arjun who is also excited to share the screen with his father Sabyasachi Chakraborty in the film for the first time.