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Hero versus villain in Alipore
Tollywood's leading hero Tapas Pal will fight it out with celluloid baddy Biplab Chatterjee on the Alipore seat.
Reel life comes to real life when Tollywood's leading hero Tapas Pal fights it out with celluloid baddy Biplab Chatterjee in the metro's posh Alipore Assembly constituency on April 27.
The screen rivals, who will vie for the seat held by Bengal's favourite hero and Trinamool Congress candidate Paul, have one thing in common -- their mass appeal.
In his maiden political foray, CPI (M) candidate Chatterjee is leaving no stone unturned to woo his voters with his kurta-pyajama look and promise to 'be a good boy' when it comes to fulfilling pre-poll promises.
Going around the streets of his opposition stronghold, he has two barriers to break -- Paul's clean image as a politician and his own negative screen image.
"Believe me, I will certainly play a positive role henceforth," Chatterjee tells his electors during door-to-door campaigning, an exercise he is not alien to as he has been part of other politicians' campaigns in the past.
A character actor of many a Bengali television serial and an acclaimed 'villain' of Tollywood films including Satyajit Ray's 'Joy Baba Felunath', Chatterjee also made news recently for leading Tollywood's support for inclusion of former Indian skipper and Bengal boy Sourav Ganguly in the team.
