Sharman Joshi reveals how he survived his first Bengali film without knowing the language
Sharman Joshi steps into Bengali cinema — what he did for Bhalobashar Morshum will surprise you
Sharman Joshi who has already established his position in the Hindi film industry is now moving towards Bengali movies with Bhalobashar Morshum.
The actor narrates his experience with the new industry saying, "I had a good time making the movie. We still have one week's schedule left to finish the whole film. It was thrilling for me the first time.”
Looking back on being challenged by word processors they caused Sharman Joshi to reply, “I had the English and the Hindi adaptations of the script, so i used to read them both. Bengali was a foreign language for me together. So the chief AD used to sit with me before every scene and spend half an hour or so we where I used to mouth all my lines as he guided me. I did it very cleanly and even though I didn’t speak the language, I emoted in it.”
Ask him if he learnt any Bengali in the process and he quips, "I'm not good with languages, so there is going to be a dubbing artist. Even in fact, the Hindi films that I have done, I hardly remember any of my dialogues. There is this one theatre director, who taught me to forget everything I have done before any new work I take. He taught me to not carry any baggage of my earlier work. So this has become a practice now."
This month along with the Bengali movie the actor also comes back to his theatre roots as he tells, “There is an English play that I am working on, it's going to open on January 25. It's the language I am most comfortable in, although I have done only one English play in the past. It's two stories in a play, one is a cross cultural romantic comedy drama Dear Sundari, tackling the challenges a language forces and it is very uniquely done. The other story is titled Goodbye kiss and it is a conversation between theatre and an actor leaving the medium. The theatre is represented by a woman."