'Dada, you are Roy': Bengali star Prosenjit Chatterjee rewinds to his first web series 'Jubilee'

'Dada, you are Roy': Bengali star Prosenjit Chatterjee rewinds to his first web series 'Jubilee' Newspoint | 2025-12-06 12:39:42

After 40 years and 400 films, I had nothing left to prove to anyone anymore. It was time to explore, not just films and television, but even OTT. But it wasn’t as if I was waiting to do a web series. I hadn’t even done one in Bengali when Vikramaditya Motwane approached me with a period drama he was directing for Amazon Prime Video.

Since I had already worked with Soumik Sen, who had written the story with Atul Sabharwal and created Jubilee (2023) with Vikram, I was aware that they had been working on this series for over five years. But I had never imagined that I would be offered a character like studio baron Srikant Roy, which, Vikram confided during our very first meeting, had been written with me in mind.

Dibakar Banerjee, Hansal Mehta and Vikramaditya Motwane are third-generation directors for me, whom I recognized as pan India game-changers, and had always envied Ronit Roy for landing the role of the father in Vikram’s Udaan (2010). But I didn’t give the nod to Jubilee (2023) immediately.

Vikram met me twice, maybe even thrice. I also met Soumik and Atul, along with the team, and every time I would ask, ‘Why me?’ And each time Vikram would reply, ‘Not...