Victor Banerjee turns trumpet player
For his role of the charlatan Peter The Cheater in Anjan Dutt’s much talked-about movie “Bow Barracks Forever”, the enormously gifted but under-used Victor Banerjee learnt to play the trumpet.
“I’m very proud of my performance in ‘Bow Barracks Forever’. This was one of my most enjoyable experiences,” Victor told IANS.
Victor worked with Dutt in his recently released “Bong Connection” and is quite impressed with his working style.
“Anjan Dutt was wonderful. And I was given the freedom to interpret my character the way I wanted. I worked for months to play the trumpet for my character.
“In appreciation of my work, the director gifted me the trumpet as a souvenir. I also kept my wristwatch from ‘My Brother Nikhil’. I like to keep behind a memento from all my films,” he added.
Victor plays an Anglo-Indian con man in the movie, which is based on the true story of people living in one of the oldest and ramshackle buildings in Kolkata called Bow Barracks.
“He’s a complete con-man. A very colourful character! My friends, whose opinion I value, saw the film and said, ‘I didn’t know you could act’. I am so happy I could make them happy,” said Victor, who did a fantastic job in “My Brother Nikhil”.
“I was so happy when grown men cried watching my performance with my screen son Sanjay Suri in ‘My Brother Nikhil’. It reminded everyone of his own relationship with his father or his son.”
Though he is under-utilised, recently he has had quite a few good releases lined up. “Apne” and “Bong Connection” are already out and two more films, “Bow Barracks Forever” and “Bandhu”, are ready to hit the marquee.
“This unemployed actor had four films and no one had a clue where these films were coming from,” he said.
Asked about the clichéd role of Rani Mukerji’s forbidding father in “Ta Ra Rum Pum”, Victor said: “Very frankly, I did that because it was shot in the US. I got a chance to spend some time with my daughter.”
— IANS
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