Veteran Bengali film actor Ranjit Mallick, who came out of his retirement with Honeymoon in 2018, has played an investigating officer for the first time in Haranath Chakraborty's upcoming film Tarokar Mrityu (Death of a Star), which is produced by Surinder Films. On a hot mid-September afternoon, IBNS correspondent Souvik Ghosh catches up with Mallick, who made his debut in 1971 with Mrinal Sen's Interview and went on to be a commercial success in Tollywood.