- By Tapapriya Dutta
- Thu, 03 Oct 2024 08:46 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
Mithun Chakraborty will be receiving the Dadasaheb Phalke Award at the National Film Awards ceremony on October 8. This is not the first time that he will be getting such highest honour, the legendary actor got his National Award for his debut 1976 film Mrigayaa. Recently, Chakraborty shared that after he received a prestigious honour for his first movie he started behaving like Al Pacino. The actor said that he became arrogant and his attitude changed over everyone around him on the sets. After his producer saw the same, he was asked to leave the sets.
In an interview with India Today, Mithun said “After Mrigayaa, I got my first National Award. Jo hota hai, I started acting like Al Pacino. Aisa lag raha tha that I am the greatest actor. Mera attitude change ho gaya toh producer ne dekh ke bola ‘get out.’ (As it happens, I started acting like Al Pacino. It felt like I was the greatest actor. My attitude changed as if I am such a huge actor, so the producer saw this and said, ‘get out’. Then I realised my mistake.”
“Yeh safar bahut katheen tha. Many tell me why I don’t make a biography. Main kehta hoon nahi kyunki meri story logo ko inspire nahi karega, unko morally down kar dega. Jo young ladke struggle karte hai unka himmat tod dega. It’s so hard, so traumatic, so painful. I came from a blind lane in Kolkata and Bombay was also so hard. Some day I wouldn’t get food and I would sometimes sleep on footpaths. (This journey was very difficult. Many people ask me why I don’t write a biography. I say no because my story won’t inspire people, it will bring them down morally. It would break the spirits of young boys who are struggling),” he added.
Mithun Chakraborty is known for his work in movies like Disco Dancer, Phool Aur Angaar, Chandaal, Prem Pratigyaa, Dance Dance, Pyar Jhukta Nahin and Agneepath to name a few.