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Biswajeet arrived with his first film 'Bees Sal Baad' (1962). His wide-eyed innocence worked in his favour. A good film with a powerful script, suspense and good, haunting ('Kahin Deep Jale Kahin Dil') music 'Bees Saal Baad' was a hit. He already had a career in Bengali films where his first film was 'Kangsa'. However, he made a niche for himself in the light romantic films popular in those days. These films include 'Bin Badal Barsaat', 'Kaise Kahoon', 'Mere Sanam', 'Shehnai', 'Do Dil' and 'Night in London'. Shammi Kapoor was the king of this genre of films but there were more films than he could do alone. The rest went to Biswajeet. They even shared the heroines: Saira Bano, Rajshri, Sharmila Tagore and Asha Parekh.
He found himself on the cover of 'Life' thanks to Rekha, his co-star in 'Do Shikari' and 'Anjana Safar'. He had to kiss Rekha in a scene and the director, Raja Nawathe forgot to say 'cut' and they went on and on till the unit started clapping. It was this kiss that was featured on the cover. An average actor, Biswajeet ultimately found himself being relegated to play sidey actors. He tried his hand at direction with 'Kahtey Hain Mujhko Raja' (1975) but it did not impress the viewers.
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