Actor Sushant Singh Rajput, armed with name which is about as 'non-Bengali' as 'non-Bengali' gets, plays fictional sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi in director Dibakar Banerjee's noir take on the classic tale, the trailer of which released yesterday. Sushant apparently feels like a babumoshai now:
He's not the first - actress Vidya Balan has also confessed to 'feeling Bengali' in the past. Here are some famous Bengalis you might recognize from the screen. The actors who play them are not Bengali themselves.
Dr Bhaskar Banerjee: Rajesh Khanna's physician friend in Anand, the original celluloid 'Babumoshai.' Played by former resident of Kolkata, Amitabh Bachchan.
Anand Babu: Amar Prem's lonely businessman seeking solace in music, played by Rajesh Khanna.
Chunni Babu: Devdas' almost equally tragic (in a different way) friend, played by Motilal in 1955 and Jackie Shroff in 2002.
Michael Mukherjee: Charismatic and influential student eader, played by Ajay Devgn in Yuva.
Pakhi Roy Chaudhary: Lootera's fragile heroine, dying slowly of tuberculosis. Played by Sonakshi Sinha.
Jhilmil Chatterjee and Shruti Ghosh: Two thirds of Barfi!'s charming triangle, played by Priyanka Chopra and Ileana D'Cruz.
Byomkesh Bakshi: Rajit Kapur brought the Bengali detective to national notice in a Doordarshan serial decades ago.
Srikant: Saratchandra's other famous potagonist, apart from Devdas. Played in an Eighties TV serial by Farooque Shaikh.
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