Days after veteran actor Anupam Kher announced his next project, where he will be portraying the role of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Swastika Mukherjee took to Twitter to hint at her disapproval.
She said that no one should play Robi Thakur and tweeted, ‘Leave the man alone’.
Several Bengalis agreed with Swastika and dropped similar comments on the post.
One of her followers wrote, ‘No one should play Rabi Thakur for a purpose,’ while another added, ‘Bengal knows him well, rest of India not so much. His story should be told and cinema is a good medium. But all depends which phase of his life is being depicted. If it’s just the latter days at Shantiniketan then that is very less of a story.’
Anupam Kher took to social media on July 7 to announce that he will play the celebrated poet in his 538th film.
Sharing the first look of him as Tagore, he wrote, ‘Delighted to portray #Gurudev #RabindranathTagore in my 538th project. Will reveal the details in due course. Ye mere saubhagya hai ki mujhe gurudev ko parde par saakaar karne ka saubhagya parpt hua hai. Jald hi is film ki adhik jankaari apke sath sanjha krunga (It is my fortune that I have got the privilege of bringing alive Gurudev on screen! I will share more information about this film soon).’
On the work front, Anupam Kher also has the Vivek Agnihotri directorial ‘The Vaccine War’, Telugu film ‘Tiger Nagewara Rao’, and Kannada film ‘Ghost’ in his kitty.
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