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  • Abhishek Banerjee on exploring his romantic aspect Ankahi Kahaniya: ‘I knew it’s going to be very tough’

    Actor Abhishek Banerjee says he bought a chance to discover the romantic aspect of his persona within the upcoming Netflix anthology Ankahi Kahaniya, wherein he performs a salesman named Pradeep who finds a companion in a model.
    Ankahi Kahaniya, directed by filmmakers Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Abhishek Chaubey, and Saket Chaudhary, traces three completely different unheard and untold tales of affection.
    The 36-year-old actor, greatest recognized for his performances within the horror comedy function Stree and Amazon Prime Video internet sequence Paatal Lok, mentioned he was thrilled when the provide to play the lead in a movie that revolves across the theme of affection got here his means.
    “I wanted to tap that side of romance. I also knew that, it’s going to be very difficult because probably from whatever training I’ve got and whatever kind of work I have done in my theatre days and later the kind of movies I was doing, I was nowhere close to playing a romantic hero,” the actor informed PTI in a zoom interview.

    Banerjee, who options in Iyer Tiwari’s section, mentioned the anthology is his try and keep away from being pigeonholed by producers.
    “I knew that is fairly one thing out of the consolation zone. (I believed) that is going to be very attention-grabbing as a result of most likely now, persons are making an attempt to set me in a specific picture or making an attempt to set me in a stereotype, despite the fact that I’ve carried out various roles.
    “So this gave me the opportunity to probably break that. That was what my aim,” the actor, nicely beloved for his comedian timing in movies like Stree, Bala, and Dream Girl, mentioned.
    Banerjee mentioned what additionally excited him in regards to the movie was the exploration of the concept of romance in a brand new means.
    “I knew that is the chance the place you possibly can truly try to really feel a special sort of romance. And it may be one thing, which isn’t borrowed from the movies which we see.
    “Whatever we are in our real life, we have an influence of a particular romantic structure in our mind, which is given to us by the society or whatever we see. But to not be that and be brutally honest with your romance is what I wanted to attain as that is what the film is all about.”
    The actor, who can be a casting director, mentioned he trusted the imaginative and prescient of director Iyer Tiwary who requested him to not deal with the model like an object.
    “No coaching can truly put together you for one thing like this, the place you’re not going to get any response or emotions. But on this case, what she informed me is don’t contact her like an object as a result of it’s straightforward to select her up identical to an object.

    “But rather pick, touch and feel her like a woman, like, how probably you do with your lover and how respectfully you do it. Her not being human, gave me more freedom and transparency in my emotions towards her because I knew there’s not going to be any judgment,” he added.
    Growing up, the Kharagpur-born actor mentioned he felt a reference to movies like Shekhar Kapur’s movie Masoom and Gulzar’s Ijaazat that went past the cliched thought of affection.
    “For me, even Masoom becomes a love story. So the idea of love for me always holds more importance than a boy-girl romance. I used to connect with all such movies.”
    Ankahi Kahaniya, produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Ashi Dua Sara, will launch on September 17.

  • Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari on Ankahi Kahaniya: ‘It was important to look inward and understand the idea of love’

    Filmmaker Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari says she is continually attempting to problem herself as a storyteller and that’s why she determined to look past formulaic romantic tales in her section for Netflix’s anthology movie Ankahi Kahaniya.
    The director’s half gives a novel perspective on love and loneliness by exhibiting a person’s sophisticated relationship with a model.

    “My idea with each story is to challenge myself. If you just say the expected, then I don’t think I am evolving as a storyteller. Expecting the expected is boring, expecting the unexpected is surprising, and at the same time, curiosity, and happiness is there,” the 41-year-old director, identified for movies similar to Nil Battey Sannata, Bareilly Ki Barfi and Panga, instructed PTI in a zoom interview.
    The three-part anthology explores how some lonely souls are discovering shock sources of connection and companionship in massive cities.
    Iyer Tiwari mentioned when the producers Ronnie Screwvala, Ashi Dua and the streamer supplied her the anthology, centering across the theme of affection, she wished to discover a special tackle the emotion.

    The one-line thought got here from author Piyush Gupta, Iyer Tiwari mentioned, including that she loved collaborating with casting director-turned-actor Abhishek Banerjee on his character, Paradeep, a garment salesman, who finds a companion in a model on the store the place he works.
    “It did really feel that it was essential to look inward and perceive the concept of affection… Like, the circumstances, surroundings he stays in, it simply felt that it was proper to inform a narrative like that.
    “Every person likes solitude to certain levels, but there is a difference between loneliness and solitude. No one likes to be lonely, and not spoken about or spoken to,” she mentioned.
    The brief movie blurs the traces between actuality and fantasy and the Panga director mentioned that was intentional.
    “I am taking the viewers into the real and unreal world. Filmmaking is three dimensional – one is what the filmmaker makes, the other one is the character’s point of view and the third one is what the audience is going to take away from the world,” she mentioned.

    Talking concerning the remedy of ‘love’ within the area of performing arts, Iyer Tiwari, who lately wrote her debut novel ‘Mapping Love’, mentioned the idea is all the time evolving.
    “One can never get bored of love stories in any form: books, films, etc. Love stories from centuries will always exist but will change according to eras. Like, during a pre-colonial era, the meaning of love would be very different, like more of separation and coming together. Then as you move on, love has a very different meaning (today)… love is in the form of technology or internet dating, etc,” she mentioned, including her all-time favorite love story is Abhimaan, Silsila, Lamhe.

    The different two elements in Ankahi Kahaniya are helmed by filmmakers Abhishek Chaubey and Saket Chaudhary. It stars Zoya Hussain, Kunal Kapoor, Nikhil Dwivedi, Palomi, Rinku Rajguru and Delzad Hiwale.
    The anthology, produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Ashi Dua Sara, will launch on September 17 on Netflix.