Main Actor Nahin Hoon
Overview
Mumbai has a very efficient system for making people feel like they are almost there. The auditions that go nowhere but go nowhere encouragingly. The callbacks that seem to vanish. The industry that keeps you close enough to feel a connection but never truly invites you in.
Except something happened across those video calls that neither of them budgeted for. He was a genuinely attentive student, which meant he was also a genuinely attentive audience, possibly the first real one she had found in years. She was a genuinely honest teacher, which meant she was also, for the first time in a while, genuinely honest.
Cast
Aarti Desai
Chitrangada Satarupa
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Vibhawari Deshpande
Ayushi Gupta
Naveen Kasturia
Yasir Iftikhar Khan
Meenakshi Arundhati
Fun Facts
- Nawazuddin was in Germany while Chitrangada was in Mumbai. They performed their scenes in real-time via video calls. The production units in both countries coordinated 'Action' and 'Cut' calls simultaneously across time zones.
- Nawazuddin mentioned in interviews that this was one of his most challenging roles because he had to emote while looking at a small phone screen rather than a physical co-star.