Anjan Dutt is as good an actor as Naseer uncle: Neel

Composer Neel Dutt says he isn't jealous when his father still makes women go weak in the knees
Your father has played a debauched musician in "Ranjana Ami Aar Ashbona". While for the other members of the audience he is just playing a character, how difficult is it for you to accept that as a son? My father is a great actor. It isn't an easy task for an actor to continuously say on screen that he is a wicked man and yet have the audience loving him.Only Anjan Dutt could have pulled off the character so well. I have been brought up in a household that knows what goes behind the scene of a film. Besides, the scenes where he was trying to get close to Parno on-screen were very well handled. So, it wasn't a problem for me at all.
Why couldn't you inspire your father to act more often in movies? There have been numerous offers in between. But my father had turned down all the offers for various reasons. Nagesh Kukunoor, Mira Nair there were so many who wanted to cast him. But Baba just didn't agree. I believe, Baba is as good as actor as Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapur or Irrfan. In fact, I can say Baba is as good as Morgan Freeman. Don't forget when he won the Alitalia Prize for Best Actor debut in Venice for "Chalchitra", the other person to have won the in the same festival that year was Robert De Niro for "True Confessions". Baba met De Niro there too. He has followed acting seriously and the directors, including Mrinal Sen, Aparna Sen and Buddhadeb Dasgupta have all cast him because they knew he was one of the finest actors around.
Your father, especially after "RAAA", has made many women go weak in the knees. Do you feel jealous? Not at all. He has the charisma and the intelligence. I am so used to hearing Baba get these compliments. The other day someone told my father: "You are the sexiest man alive". At the premiere, someone said: "I love you".
Coming to your own work in the movie, how much was it a pressure to score for a musical that is directed by your father? The pressure was there. But I am glad the songs are working and people are liking my background score. I treated the background score more like a drama and I also used the silence effectively. While in other films I was free to design the music my own way, here I couldn't go back to a period before the 90s. The version of the "Ranjana" song that I arranged for the movie is faster and noisier than the original song. So, is it for "Tumi ashbe bole". The arrangements for "Brishti dekhechhi" is better and more polished than the original one. What's making me happy is that people are really liking the "Jagorone" song. Somlata's voice has been appreciated so much. It's matched with that of Parno. I am waiting for Mrinal Sen to watch the movie. The last time he had watched a film with my music, he had said that if he ever makes a movie again, he will have me compose for it.