India, Dec. 1 -- After playing an advocate's role in Arindam Sil's courtroom drama Dhananjay, Tollywood actor-MP Mimi Chakraborty paired with the veteran filmmaker again for a dark thriller Khela Jawkhon, an SVF production. Ahead of the film's Dec 2 release, India Blooms correspondent Souvik Ghosh catches up with the leading Bengali actor over a cup of coffee on a winter afternoon.

Q. You have featured in various forms of thriller recurrently in your career. Was it a conscious approach?

A. I would say Khela Jawkhon is my first out-and-out thriller. Films like Gangster, Golpo Holeo Shotti were thrillers but of different sorts.

Q. How has your experience of working with Arindam Sil been for the second time?

A. My first experience with h...