I even now remember how Satyajit Ray used to pamper me personally on the sets

For Soham, seeing Shakha Proshakha on Satyajit Ray's birthday has become a ritual of sorts. The actor was only five years good old when he acquired an opportunity to take action in the film.

"To celebrate jethu's (Satyajit Ray) birthday on May 2, we generate it a point to watch Shakha Proshaka at home every year. There were times, when I visited his house also. I was five years old when jethu cast me in the film. I still remember how he'd pamper me on the pieces. I was very fond of ice creams and he made sure I got one whenever I wanted. His design of working was straightforward. He'd enact a scene 3 or 4 times, in order that the actor understood what accurately he wanted. Only in that case he'd take the final shot," recalled Soham during a special speak to ETimes. Soham had played the nave grandson in Shakha Proshakha who would talk to his ailing grandfather what perform numberi money means which scene is similar to etched inside our minds forever.

Ray had a top secret bonding with children. End up being it 'Pather Panchali' or 'Agantuk', he used to handle children like entities by themselves. He would often choose them from their urban, educated, modern backdrop to set them in a far more rural placing whenever the script would demand plus they never looked like out of place. They didn't even behave or speak like precocious kids as we check out in many films. Possibly in his literary works for kids he used to check out the same convinced that children are extra imaginative than older readers.