looking dapper in a charcoal grey jacket and black denims dev seemed all set for an afternoon of adda his latest film amazon obhijaan will see this daredevil actor travel across south america including the amazon in search of the mythical city of gold el dorado seated in his swanky office on the 29th floor of a south kolkata apartment dev couldnt contain his excitement as he spoke to ct about his ladylove adventures in the rainforest coactors forthcoming films and much moreyou are returning as shankar after four years the character in chander pahar was a huge hit with children you must be thrilledi am really excited who wouldnt be shankar is perhaps one of the most adventurous characters bengal has ever produced you wont find a single bengali who doesnt like to travel and shankar is one of them he loves adventure shankar lives in every bengalis heart shooting for this franchise was both a thrilling and fascinating experience its not every day that you get to travel to the amazon or kalahari desert youd only find people from wildlife channels visiting these places to make documentary films i am happy that shankar is back to share his adventure talesconsidering that its a brand new story what were the challenges of doing this film how was it shooting in the amazonshooting in a jungle was a challenge we had to shoot in real locations even in the water we shot amidst snakes piranhas dart frogs aquatic animals poisonous plants and bushes even if you brush past those plants you can get high fever we didnt know what was in store for us next every move was full of uncertainties anything could have happened to us and to think of it we shot there for 35 days it was amazing any interesting anecdote youd like to sharethere are so many actually i still remember that day when my russian coactor svetlana gulakova and i were shooting in the dense rainforest suddenly we heard a crackling sound above our head initially none of us could figure out the source of the sound so we continued to shoot and before we could realise a huge tree was falling on us all of us ran for cover the tree fell right on the monitor our director kamaleshwar mukherjee had a narrow escape but unfortunately one of his assistants got badly injured we found her under the tree trunk before she was rescued we immediately rushed her to the hospital which was really far away everyone was upset on the set we were later told that most of the trees had hollow trunks till that point we were only thinking of taking precautions against snakes spiders and insects but after that incident wed keep looking upwards to see if any tree was falling on usyou have already made history by launching the biggest poster of a bengali movie and now the new graphic novelyes the book has already been launched we needed