Apu Biswas

Apu Biswas

What is the meaning of life? Every mind will have a different answer. To me the meaning of life is to give joy to others for as long as I live. May be that is where the success of my life lies. At least that is what I think. Being in the film industry I think the meaning of life can be found in films. May be unconsciously I have started to entertain others.

My hometown is in Bagura. From my childhood I was involved in cultural activities. In middle school I would participate in dancing. Although my family was against it, my mom was my inspiration. Today I am Opu Biswash because of her encouragement and help. And of course I had the prayers and love of fans.

In some party I met with the talented actor/director Shuvash Datta. He offered me to act in his film ‘O amar chele’. Before I could finish that movie I got an offer to act in Amzad Hossain’s film ‘Kal shokale’. I did not have a big part in these two films but it helped my career. After that I worked in place of Dipjol in 2006 in ‘Chachu’, Pitar ashon’, Dadima’, ‘Koti takar kabin’. The rest of the story is known to all.

I have not been in the film industry for long but I had to face many problems. Most of it was bitter. Our industry does not welcome the new ones. That was my first experience. I stood on the station from morning to evening in shooting. I was new so I had nowhere to sit. But the others who were not new comers had a sitting arrangement. If this indifference continues then our films cannot improve. Other than this there is jealousy. Competition is good but jealousy is not acceptable. And some of our reporters play along with this. At the beginning of my career some of the artists were conspiring against me. But I survived by the love of my audience. It is true that the true value of an actor depends on his audience. The reporters in electronic and print media all are bias. The reporters are the conscious of the citizens. Why will they be bias? Thus my request to the reporters is that they only bring out the truth to the readers. They are the symbol of honesty.

The present film industry has crossed a dark time and now is waiting for golden days. But still there are not many good directors except few in our country. And the producers and directors only think of the commercial profit which is why we do not find good movies despite our wishes. So the people of the this country have no choice other than to chose bollywood, Hollywood. There is also scarcity of good story writers in our country. During acting I came to see that it’s the same dialogues over and over again. They just wrote a story to earn money. But now the audience does not accept these movies. And the entire fault falls on the producers and directors. This system should change. We have to remember that our audience wants to know more and learn more from our films.

Today all the prices are increasing in a geometric progression except the budget of our producers. I have heard it many times during shooting that a producer is saying ‘could not shoot a good scene due to the short budget’. In school a teacher once told me ‘one can never succeed with loads of tension’. I think that if the mentioned problems are solved then the quality of our films will improve. I have not been here for long but I had the opportunity to work with many super stars. Once upon a time I would dream about them and today I am sometimes their daughter and sometimes daughter in law. I enjoy this very much. Those who once upon a time made great movies have now stepped out, some from agitation and some for negligence. Now is the time to rebuild our films. And that requires the experienced artists. Only they can revive the films of dhalliwood.

During shooting these artists unconsciously express their agitation. Most of them complained ‘as long as I was able to give to them we were valuable. If I am done today no one will look for me tomorrow’. This is only seen in our country. If we look at bollywood we will see that in all the functions the aged, experienced and retired artists are valued the most. The people of the film industry need to have a change of heart.

My only wish is to have a place in the hearts of my audience. Thus I did a commercial with Nobel for the viewers of drawing room. Now people recognize me. This was positive for me. But the producers like Humayon Ahmed, Mostofa Sorowar Faruqui, Tanvir Mokammel, Morshedul Islam and Giasuddin Selim do not work with the artists of FDC. I don’t know the reason for that. But I would say that they should also work with commercial artists like us. Nowadays there are two types of films. Main stream and alternate stream. If the artists of commercial films could work on their films then there would not be this division.

In our media most of the high ranking officials hardly know anything about cinema. It’s the same thing for most of the editors. If this kind of relationship changes I believe our entertainment will definitely improve.

I have made some plans from the beginning of this year. I want to reach a strong point in film and thus the pre- planning. I will try not to make the same mistakes that were once made.

I have many wishes. I had a sky full of dreams when I entered the film industry. These dreams are coming true one by one. I was a simple girl from Bagura and now I am a film actress. So I believe that my sky full of dreams will one day come true.

Apu Biswas

In first 6 months of this year 7 out of 8 released movies acted by Apu became popular. In last decade no other actress from new generation got popularity like her in Bangla movie. That is why she is in a assured stage in professional life.

Apu Biswas is the actress of most commercial successful movies in last six months. Even two years back there were 4 to 5 actress in the film industry. Although Moushumi reduced acting, Purnima became busier with dramas after marriage. Poppy has fewer movies in her hand. Only Shabnur’s movies do good business once in a while.

After this only Apu Biswas depicts success. Apu said in her natural manner, “actually my professionalism played the biggest part behind my consistency, because I am not aware of messing up any director’s schedule. I don’t think about what others do. What I do is the matter to see. I am busy with keeping my fitness after shooting day and night.”

Opu is now shooting at Cox’s Bazar. Apu will stay outside of Dhaka for one more week to shoot the movie ‘Hakim Nore To Hukum Norena’ directed by F. I. Manik. She will go to Bangkok next month.

During this Eid, she will be seen in around half a dozen movies. She is tensed about release of lots of movies simultaneously. As this tends to push producers into business risk. And Apu does not like this either.

She said, “I am not in support of releasing several movies together, because films do not do business. And blame falls on shoulders of actors-actresses.”

Like success of Apu, she also got herself into controversy in different occasions. But still she has no problem leaving all that controversy behind and moving ahead consistently.

Regarding this Apu said, “My success came in short time compared to others. That’s why whenever little fault of mine is found everybody starts condemning me. In coming days viewers will get to see me in better roles. I am waiting for days when my expectations would be fulfilled. I know I can do it. I have to do it.”

For last two years Apu’s ship of success docked in a green island. There is a lot of similarity of her changed life with the girl of green island. Movie experts think that for next two years Apu’s career will go higher.