Kolkata, Jul 8 “Kahaani” fame actor Saswata Chatterjee is playing the role of Shabar Dasgupta, the fictional detective by novelist Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay, in upcoming film “Eagler Chokh”. Saswata said he is very happy at being offered the role by director Arindam Sil. About his character, the actor said he plays an unassuming undercover special branch police detective and shooting the film took him to places where he had never been -the dark underbelly of Kolkata. “Despite living in Kolkata for ages, I visited places like the Khidderpore dock, some slums and rail yards for the first time,” the actor told PTI, adding that shooting in real life hot spots had been a trend ever since “Kahaani” happened. Saswata, who has just completed the first part of shooting of Katrina Kaif-starrer “Jagga Jasoos” by Anurag Basu, said the film had already been shot in Morocco apart from Mumbai.
