Found Shah Rukh’s charm in Apurba: Chalchitra director

Popular small screen actor Ziaul Faruq Apurba made his film debut with ‘Gangster Returns’ in 2014. After a long break, he returned to the big screen. On Friday (December 20), his ‘Chalchitra’ was released in Kolkata on the occasion of Christmas. This is the actor’s first film there.

Earlier, fans were surprised and excited to see Apurba when his look was revealed on a poster. Where the ‘big boy’ is presented in a unique and different atmosphere.

The film’s director Pratim D. Gupta told Indian media that he found some qualities of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan in Apurba, which impressed him.

Pratim said that the script was written keeping in mind to use Apurba in a different way’. He said, ‘I wanted to use him in a very dramatic way. I have seen his drama. Apurba has a charm like Shah Rukh Khan. I tried to capture that.’

Regardless, the 40-second teaser of this movie released in October gave a glimpse of the suspenseful mystery. Apart from Apurba, Tota Roychowdhury, Raima Sen, Bratya Basu, Anirban Chakraborty and others have acted in it.