Aishwarya Rai would enjoy Bengali breakfast during the shoot of Chokher Bali, says Prosenjit Chatterjee

Aishwarya in a still from Chokher Bali

Former Miss World and actress Aishwarya Rai made her Bengali film debut in 2003 with film Chokher Bali. She was seen with Prosenjit Chatterjee and Tota Roy Chowdhury in pivotal roles.

The film, which was an adaptation of a novel by Rabindranath Tagore, was directed by Rituparno Ghosh.

Now its lead actor Prosenjit, in an interview with Mamaraazzi, recalled the time when he shot for the film with Aishwarya Rai.

He also revealed that Aishwarya would enjoy kachori for breakfast.

“Aishwarya was very good. She is very sweet. Abhishek is one the sweetest boys I have met. I think he is very affectionate, very nice. Me and Ritu (Rituparno Ghosh) have done a lot of films, we were friends but we used to fight a lot on sets. In Bengali, we used to get mithai and kachori in the morning on sets.

He further said Aishwarya would always ask Rituparna and Prosenjit that why did they fight so much? "She used to eat all of those and say, ‘You are topmost hero, he is topmost director, why are you fighting?"

Bold scenes with Aishwarya Rai

Prosenjit spoke about the bold scenes that he had to shoot with Aishwarya Rai and how did they perform. "Whenever we went on the set, it was like something magic happens. She was very nice. Every moment was wonderful. We had a lot of bold and emotional scenes in Chokher Bali and everything was done well because Ritu was there.”

Chokher Bali had Aishwarya Rai in the lead role of a widow who has an affair with Prosenjit's character in a 19th Century Bengali household.

Chokher Bali won three National Awards.

Prosenjit was also seen in Hindi web series Jubilee Talkies recently which was a big hit. Meanwhile, Aishwarya was seen in Mani Ratnam directed Ponniyin Selvan I and PS II where she played the role of Nandini.