Your name is Pushparag Roy Chowdhury. What made you change your name?
My grandpa, an ardent devotee of Lord Tota Gopinath, was visiting the Lord’s temple when he got the news of my birth and that’s how I got my daak naam (pet name). Bengali’s give a lot of importance to daak naam. Everybody eventually started calling me Tota, I never changed my name. One is usually called by the daak naam by the people who are very close to you and love you. So when people call me Tota, I feel that they are connected to me!
Your acting skills got noticed in the critically acclaimed short film Ahalya. How did you bag that role?
One evening, post dinner I got a call from Sujoy Ghosh. He said that he was sending over a script and wanted me to read it. Once the script arrived, I couldn’t keep it down till I finished it. It stirred a million emotions up in me. I was amazed reading it, and so I called him up and asked him what were you having when you wrote this! And before he could ask me, I announced that I am on board. So that’s how it started. Ahalya is a mind blowing short film. Standing today, around 20 million people have watched Ahalya. The feeling is flabbergasting.
Did that help you pave your path in Bollywood?
This story is from the September 2017 edition of STARDUST US EDITION.
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