Sujoy Ghosh Says Abhishek Bachchan Was 1st Choice For Bob Biswas' Role In Kahaani

One of the characters from Sujoy Ghosh's hit movie Kahaani is getting a spin-off. The trailer of 'Bob Biswas' was released a few days ago. Starring Abhishek Bachchan in the lead role, fans lauded him for stepping into the shoes of such a complex character with ease.?

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Filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh has now revealed Abhishek Bachchan was also the first choice for menacing contract killer Bob Biswas for 'Kahaani', but the actor couldn't do the film due to scheduling issues.?

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The 2012 thriller was headlined by actor Vidya Balan, who played Vidya Bagchi, a pregnant woman searching for her missing husband in Kolkata.?

Played by actor Saswata Chatterjee, Bob Biswas --an LIC agent who moonlighted as a cold-blooded contract killer-- became the breakout character from the film.?

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In an interview with PTI, Sujoy said the film's first draft focused on the characters of Vidya Bagchi and Bob Biswas but later underwent a change as Bachchan couldn't do the movie.?

He was quoted in the report as saying,?

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"The first draft of 'Kahaani' that I ever wrote was about this pregnant woman coming to Kolkata, looking for her missing husband, and she meets this one man at the airport, who takes pity on her and helps her to find her husband. But that man was conflicted. He couldn't understand why would someone want to kill this woman- because he was given the contract to kill. So Bagchi and Bob come at the same time."?

The director said in his original draft, and the film explored the conflict of Bob, who is intrigued why someone would hire him to kill a helpless, innocent woman.

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"Bob helps her to find her husband without understanding why is he doing it. The curiosity that why would someone want to kill her gets to him. I had given this script to this actor, who was so busy at that time he couldn't do it. Then I thought, let's make it about Vidya Bagchi only, keep him out," he added.?

When Sujoy started working on the spin-off 'Bob Biswas', he went back to Bachchan to play the titular part. Talking about the same, he added,?

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"When I started creating the new Bob, I went back to that same person and asked him if he would do it now if he has the dates. He immediately said yes. That was Abhishek. When I was thinking of the new one, he just happened. He was always the first Bob when we wrote the first draft, which never happened."?

The filmmaker said with "Bob Biswas" that he intended to create a character like James Bond, which doesn't depend on any actor. He added,?

"I thought it would be exciting if we could take someone like Bob and create a completely new character, which establishes Bob rather than an actor. It's a character, and it'll go on, maybe like how Don or James Bond are. Creating that character and the world was exciting. Because we wanted to create a character, it was a conscious decision to go with someone fresh."?

Backed by superstar Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment along with Sujoy's Boundscript Production, the film is directed by Diya Annapurna Ghosh.?'Bob Biswas' is set to premiere on streaming service ZEE5 on December 3.?

(With inputs from PTI)?

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