Prosenjit Chatterjee Issues Apology After Massive Backlash For ‘Why Talk In Bengali’ Remark To Reporter: ‘I’m Sorry’

Popular Bengali actor Prosenjit Chatterjee has been recently facing backlash for asking a Bengali reporter, ‘Why do you need to talk in Bengali’ at a Hindi movie trailer launch. In the viral clip, the journalist was asking a question to the superstar about his cop roles in his career at the trailer launch of Maalik in Mumbai. Chatterjee then replied, ‘Why do you need to talk in Bengali’. Rajkummar Rao, who also stars in Maalik, was present at the trailer launch and translated the Journalist’s question in English. Now, Prosenjit Chatterjee has issued an apology letter in Bengali on his social media account.

As translated by News 18, Prosenjit Chatterjee penned, “A few days ago, something I said — rather, a single sentence — has spread across social media. I would like to say something about that. I have been working mainly in the Bengali film industry for 42 years. Only in the past few years have I had the chance to work on pan-India projects. In similar lines, I recently attended the trailer launch of a Hindi film that I was a part of at Juhu PVR on July 1.”

He continued, “The film’s director, artists, journalists and others present there were all primarily using English to converse. There, a Bengali journalist asked me a question in Bengali. I have known her for a while and am quite fond of her too. Since most of the people there did not understand Bengali properly, I thought that if I responded in the language, people present there might not understand me.”