Shaheb is playing football

Actor Shaheb Bhattacherjee, son of footballer Subrata Bhattacherjee, is devoting a lot of time to football these days.
No, he isn���������t contemplating a career change. It���������s all for a role. And the actor has left his father impressed. Shaheb, who���������s playing a struggling footballer in Pintu Chatterjee���������s film, Joker, opposite Moubani Sorcar, informs, ���������It feels so good to see the smile on my father���������s face when I practice with him in the morning.He is taking keen interest in this film and is happy that the politics which prevail in sports will be portrayed on-screen.���������
Ask him whether his father wanted him to take up sports and Shaheb says, ���������Well, not really. He always supported my decision of becoming an actor, but I know deep down, there is a sense of satisfaction in him to see me devote so much time to learn the nitty-gritties of the game.��������� Joker will be Shaheb���������s first film on sports and he is sweating it out to get under the skin of a footballer. ���������Just a few days before reading the script of Joker, a poor Santhal guy from Purulia came to meet my father. He shared the story of how despite being a talented player, he fell prey to politics and was excluded from the team. His only fault was his underprivileged background and that he came from a Maoist area. When I heard the story, it took me one second to relate to the character,��������� signs off Shaheb.
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