what attention did patol Babu pay to the minor role he played in the film
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Patol Babu had to play a very insignificant role in the movies though he had been kept vague about it. The scene was that Chanchal Kumar, the hero was a rising young executive. He had been informed that embezzlement had taken place in his office, and he had come to find out what had happened. He was to get out of his car and charges across the pavement towards the entrance. Just then he had to collide with an absent-minded pedestrian. Patol Babu had to play the part of that pedestrian. He was to get hurt in the head and say "Oh!" Chanchal Kumar paying no attention to him had to enter into the office. The purpose of the scene was to highlight his extreme preoccupation.
When Patol Babu started rehearsing "Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh" for his scene, he realized the same exclamation, when spoken in different ways, carried different shades of meaning. A man when hurt said 'Oh' in quite a different way. Despair brought forth another kind of 'Oh'; sorrow provoked yet another kind. In fact, there were so many kinds of "Oh's"--the short "Oh", the long-drawn "Oh", "Oh" shouted and "Oh" whispered, the high-pitched "Oh" and the low-pitched "Oh", and the "Oh" starting low and ending high, and the "Oh" starting high and ending low. Strange! Patol Babu suddenly felt that he could write a whole thesis on that one monosyllabic exclamation.
Pool babu who gets a minor role of saying only an 'oh!' for the play pays a lot of attention to this small scene.
He didn't look down to his role, he kept of rehearsing the small phrase for many times.
He repeated the same thing for several times and tried it in various way to bring the perfection in it.
He was a meticulous person and always did his job properly.
To him his work was more important than the designation.