Rahul Bose is a man of many talents. Seven years into acting, he marked his directorial debut with Everybody Says I’m Fine. In 2017, he donned the hat of a filmmaker again when he raised funds and directed Poorna: Courage Has No Limit, a biography of Malavath Poorna, the youngest girl to climb Mount Everest.
Now, in an exclusive chat with News18 Showsha, he reveals that he’s going to direct again and even has a script ready. However, he quips that the reception it received from people left took him back. The Berlin and Dil Dhadakne Do actor tells us, “I’ve written a film.
I wrote 18 drafts. The greatest compliment I received from somebody is, ‘You couldn’t have written it.’ When I asked them the reason, they said it’s so funny, light-hearted, commercial and massy that the script couldn’t be mine.
When I told them the title of the film, they said, ‘Impossible! You couldn’t have written it at all!’” This year, Rahul completes three decades of being an actor. Looking back at his journey, he shares, “I’ve never done a film just for money. It has been a conscious decision to not do bad films.
” And though he has had a fulfilling career, there’s one film he regrets doing. Without giving away its title, he remarks, “I’ve had one misstep out of 52 films in my career where the cast was fantastic and the story was brilliant. None of us read the script because it wasn’t ready even when we were set to shoot.
It was the only time in my life when I hadn’t ready a script before saying a yes to it.” Recalling how the decision to be a part of the project stemmed from the temptation of sharing screen space with his co-actors, Rahul says, “That film had some of the best actors in the business. We began shooting for it and then we read the script, we looked at each other and said that we’re finished and that we wouldn’t be able to save this.
Internally, all of us actors knew it. We tried really hard to improve it and we even communicated it with the director but it just didn’t work.” Rahul, who made his onscreen debut with the 1994 film English August, further divulges that the pay too was very good.
“Some actors who were senior to me told me that we should just submit to it and do it. So, all of us completed the film. The money was very good but that’s not why I did it.
I heard the names of the three co-actors and I thought to myself that this is acting heaven,” he states. Another highlight of his career remains 15 Park Avenue, which reunited him with Aparna Sen and Konkona Sensharma after Mr And Mrs Iyer. “I got the same feeling when I did 15 Park Avenue, for instance.
It had Waheeda (Rehman) ji, Shefali (Shah) and Konkona and had Aparna directing it. It made me feel that it was one of the pinnacles of my career,” he shares..
