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Did you know this about Soham and Srabanti?

They starred in Swapan Saha's Mayar Badhon as child artistes

Srabanti

and

Soham

are totally in awe of the child star of

Googly

Soumyadipta

Saha. Curiously, both the stars started out as child actors and among the many films they did, there was one in which both featured together. Directed by Swapan Saha, the film, Mayar Badhon, had Prosenjit Chatterjee and Rituparna Sengupta playing the lead. The same film also starred Soham, who used to be known as Master Bittu at one point and Srabanti as child artistes. About Googly, where they play parents to Soumyadipta, Srabanti said, “He is a cute little boy, who everyone would run after. On the sets, people would pull his cheeks and he would run here, there, everywhere. Once he was through with running, he would come and tell me what had happened. I used to teach him how to get back to the same person. I was his agony aunt during the shoot. With a child, you ought to behave like a child and they become friends very easily.” Soham, who is father of two children, too spent a lot of his free time with Soumyadipta aka Googly. All praise for him, Soham said, “He is a natural. No one needs to tell him how to go about acting. Once the director would give instructions, he would become the character. He didn’t have to act, he could just behave.” Googly is about two people, Dali and Arjun, who have a

stammering

problem. They eventually get married and give birth to Googly. The film is about what happens after Googly is born.

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