Dibyendu Bhattacharya, an actor who has garnered a devoted fanbase together with his unimaginable performances in mainstream cinema in addition to OTT, was final seen within the function of Neel Banerjee for the net sequence `Poacher`. Directed by Richie Mehta, the 8-part drama miniseries exhibits Dibyendu play a forest officer who’s on a mission to take down an ivory trafficking ring that poaches elephants within the forests of Kerala. In an unique interplay with mid-day.com, Dibyendu shares his tackle OTT, the audition course of, and extra.
In ‘Poacher’, Dibyendu’s character is one which the viewers roots for, but in addition feels emotionally related to the truth that a person, who’s going through a deadly well being scare is giving it his all for the wildlife. On a aspect notice, he additionally loves turtles. Shedding gentle on the identical, the actor says, “It’s a very completely different character, a no-nonsense man with numerous layers. I loved working with a unbelievable forged and simply responded to an ideal perspective.”
It’s been over 20 years and Dibyendu has sustained on this fast-paced business that churns out new actors every single day. He has been round lengthy earlier than the OTT increase and starred in initiatives like ‘Monsoon Marriage ceremony’, ‘Black Friday’, ‘Pari’, and ‘24’ amongst others. Having mentioned that, he credit the platform for giving misplaced content material a brand new lease of life. “I shot for Prison Justice earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the lockdown, folks couldn’t go and watch cinema, fairly a caught scenario and OTT got here in its place artwork type at the moment. I have to say it’s a renaissance within the leisure period. Everybody was like ‘How will we make a film? Somebody will cease me. How will my film be launched? Is there anywhere? So a brand new quantity began like a content material income business.
Due to this, all of the actors began getting work,” he avers.
Off-lately Dibyendu has been a continuing on the OTT platform with exhibits like ‘Maharani’, ‘Rocket Boys’, and ‘The Railway Males’. The actor nevertheless maintains that each good actor has encountered rejections in some type. He explains, “I by no means gave auditions for the initiatives I’ve executed up to now. I didn’t realise what rejection meant till I bought a personality. However afterward, I gave auditions and it didn’t work. I didn’t know the system for a very long time as a result of I assumed I’m an artist, an actor. I’ve a viewpoint to arrange any character. That is my very own private craft. There is no such thing as a set rule. I all the time thought that I’m going to provide an examination and any individual goes to evaluate me whether or not I can act or not. I by no means understood, didn`t know why it occurred. After I clicked a few auditions and moved on, it occurred many instances that I’m doing this function, and later discovered that the film was made and I’m not in it. However all these items are half and parcel of life. So I by no means take into consideration these items.”
When Dibyendu commenced his profession as an actor, there was by no means a plan B. Some would possibly consider it as overconfidence, however for him, it’s his religion in craft. “I by no means had any plan in life. I consider in life`s lengthy journey. I simply attempt to dwell within the second, No matter comes, I take it as a problem and I take it as like I’ve to do it. And I do it with my the whole lot. I don`t have any ideas like I`ll open a restaurant, I`ll do that enterprise, I`ll do this. I really like so many issues aside from being an actor however that doesn`t imply that I’ll cease doing that,” he concludes.