it was only in 1998 that he got the dream role of jatayu. his first film as jatayu was "jahangirer shornomudra" (1999) and he also acted as jatayu in "bombaiyer bombete" (2003), "kailashey kelenkari" (2007), "tintorettor jishu" (2007) , "gorosthaney sabdhan" (2010) and "royal bengal rahasya" (2011). he was legendary in his performance and managed to capture in essence the spirit of the character so well that even sandip ray, the director, found him perfect as a replacement. he had completed dubbing for the feluda film "royal bengal rahasya" the day before he died. initially, it was difficult to replace the legendary actor, santosh dutta as jatayu, but he became popular with time.