Films: OTT’s newest Mr Dependable

Paramabrata Chatterjee, who completes 20 years in Bengali cinema this year, is slowly winning the hearts of the pan-Indian audience

Parambrata Chatterjee has moved on from being ‘that cop in Kahaani’. The actor who played the perfect foil to Anushka Sharma’s deeply-disturbing Rukhsana in Pari (2018), has gone on to consistently impress the audience with his nuanced turns in Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi (2019), Bulbbul (2020) and Aranyak (2021)—his second Netflix original web series that saw Raveena Tandon’s stunning comeback on screen.

Paramabrata says before this new wave that is today not only manifested in OTT content but also in cinema, Bollywood was mostly about potboilers (Nasir Gazi)

Parambrata Chatterjee in Aranyak (2021) and (inset) Bulbbul (2020)