Following a few films and television shows, Chandan Roy Sanyal dhan-ta-naned into public consciousness in 2009 with Kaminey , in which he p...
Following a few films and television shows, Chandan Roy Sanyal dhan-ta-naned into public consciousness in 2009 with Kaminey, in which he played the reckless Bengali gangster Mikhail.
Roy Sanyal subsequently rolled out a series of solid supporting performances in such films as F.A.L.T.U (2011), D-Day (2013), Chef (2017), and most recently, the MX Player web series Aashram, in which he plays the cunning enforcer of a crooked godman.
Roy Sanyal’s latest appearance is in the Zee5 anthology film Forbidden Love. Aahana Kumra and he play a married couple who have fallen out of love in Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury’s instalment Rules of the Game.
“If I have to draw a parallel, then Rules of the Game is on the lines of Basu Chatterjee’s Rajnigandha and Basu Bhattacharya’s Avishkar, where a distance has developed between the couple, despite living in the same house,” Roy Sanyal told Scroll.in. “They are affluent upper class people living in a fancy house, and no matter how many gadgets and furniture they buy, nothing is filling up the space in their hearts. But the film soon becomes edgy and goes into thriller territory.”
Roy Sanyal has occasionally headlined projects, such as the 2013 film Prague and Bengali filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Urojahaj (2018) – in the latter film, Roy Saynal plays...
