✍️BOBBY CHAKRABORTY
Celebrated, senior actress Pallavi Chatterjee has been celebrating her ancestral Lakshmi Puja for 25 years now, which has now become the talk of the town too.
Let us have a first hand account of this very famous Puja 2024,through the eyes of actor/activist/ teacher of method acting Bobby Chakraborty, who has been a regular, in the illustrious guest list for 2 decades now.
Here’s what Bobby had to say :-
“I know Pallavi Di or my dearest Maku Di for exactly 22 years, since I auditioned for the the Hindi daily soap ‘Saheb Biwi aur Ghulam’ which she and Bumba Da (Prosenjit Chatterjee) we’re co-producing under the banner of ‘Golden Moments’ for ‘Sahara Manoranjan’ Channel.
Later on I have worked with them as my co-actors too, but beyond the professional arena, I have developed a deep bond by heart, with Maku Di. I feel that among all in the industry who are the real well wishers of mine, she would definitely top the list. I have always been touched by her warmth and affection as a producer, as my co-actor and as my elder sister too.
Maku Di’s Lakshmi Puja is an event I haven’t missed for the last 21 years, except for one year when I was in USA.
Maku Di has been single handedly organising this Puja, exactly the same way, her mother, Late Ratna Chatterjee would execute it. Her mother was everything for her as she says. That’s the reason you would see the photo of respected Ratna Aunty, beside the singhasan of Ma Lakshmi.
This was the first Durga Puja in my life without Baba, who passed away on May 31st this year. There was no Lakshmi Puja celebrations too, for the first time in our house, since my birth. Hence Maku Di’s Puja became my own Puja, all the more this year.
It’s a regular event in my calendar, where a small reunion of sort happens between all my colleagues from the entertainment industry too, which always leads to a heart-to-heart adda and a whole lot of fun like this year with Shankar Da, Monami, Biswanath(Poltu) , Sudeshna Di, Arijit Da, Imran Bhai, Kaushik Da, Labani (Labu)Di, Manali, Sayantani, Biswajit Da and many more.
I pray to Ma Lakshmi that She blesses Maku Di with the best of health, wealth and prosperity forever. She is special she is someone very nearto my heart “
