Asha Parekh regrets not having acted in film maestro Satyajit Ray’s Kanchanjunga

Guwahati: Yesteryear actress and former censor board boss Asha Parekh regrets not having acted in film maestro Satyajit Ray’s “Kanchanjunga” in which he had offered her a role after seeing a photograph of hers in a studio.

“Ray had offered me the role in ‘Kanchanjunga’ and I was very excited but he wanted dates for a month at a stretch which was not possible for me at that stage,” she said.

“The great filmmaker had seen my photograph at a studio and offered me the role. I tried my best to adjust the shooting dates and even went to Darjeeling to meet him but it didn’t work out,” she said.