If you’re looking for an obedient convent educated english speaking, bengali actor based out of Mumbai who travels back to Kolkata when he misses home, I’M RIGHT HERE! HELLO!
Thanking @megha.shom for her patience and canva editing skills.
You know how you always think there's nothing new that a city can give to you anymore and you are almost always secretly jealous of those who left their homes. You're what? - 25 and mumbling when you should be roaring. And then there's the other half that sits on a balcony amidst the Mumbai high-rises with his glass of budget Whiskey or the one that is struggling with the cold wave in Delhi while sipping on his 10th cup of hot ginger tea or that girl in Bangalore cooking her dinner after coming back from Whitefield after a long day and all of these people simultaneously listening to "Kolkata beche ache buker bhetor jeno prothom prem er moton..." you got the rest of the lyrics humming in your mind already, didn't you! Deep down, we are all fighting a battle we know nothing about.
Glorious moments like these only remind me to keep going. Wherever it is from.. from the inside, from the outside, from Kolkata, from Mumbai. Wherever you are and wherever I am, I'm taking a deep breath only to appreciate how far I've come and how far we all still need to go.
Thank you @svfsocial@svfbrands@soumyajit_majumdar_collabs@riddhi_sen_@aritraandotherstories ❤
Mumbai really tests you as a person. Not as an actor. Not as a professional. But as who you always thought yourself to be. Mumbai, as I often say, hasn’t really been a fast city. It’s been a rapid one. Some of the people I met here, take life so easy and dont plan for more than a year, but they are always doing so much. If that makes sense?
I packed my entire life in a suitcase and shifted to Mumbai in a span of 5 days. Left behind my entire 12 years of training in theatre and on-screen acting in my native language to swim in this massive ocean. But that’s the life I chose for myself.
So if you’re from Mumbai, and looking for an actor that fits my profile, please reach out to me. I’m starting from scratch once again. I can speak English and Bengali fluently and I get confused with the gender in Hindi.
Kinda poetic that I shifted to Mumbai on the 2nd of November. Something I should have done at 21, I’m finally doing now.
I’ve noticed that as brutal as a year could get, it always usually ends on a good note. Like the long paused breath you take after reaching a summit.
When working remotely isn’t an option anymore, I decided to take the ethereal leap of faith and let things happen to me. Mumbai happened to me. At a time I was ready but wasn’t expecting it.
From running to catch the metro at 8:30am to finding a place and slowly making it into a home, Mumbai has been happening to me every single day now. It humbles me. From my bones. Not the grand gestures that SRK professes but the reality of humility. That it takes less than 2 minutes and one decision for your life to look completely different. Good or bad. Crazy or stagnant. Big or bleh.
Last night, a dog died due to cardiac arrest from loud crackers in my neighbourhood. It doesn’t take a lot to just step up and say I want to spend Diwali or any festival a little differently than what we’ve been taught to.
I truly hope that light comes at the end of every dark tunnel for all us and in the process, symbiotically if it maybe, try helping out another living soul. Be the light we wish we had when we needed it the most!
