2020 has been phenomenal: Shreya Dhanwanthary
Besides playing Sucheta Dalal in popular web series Scam 1992, Shreya Dhanwanthary wrote and directed A Viral Wedding. Updated: December 21, 2020 12:52:07 pm
Shreya Dhanwanthary will next be seen in The Family Man 2. (Photo: Shreya Dhanwanthary/Instagram)
“2020 was the best year,” says Shreya Dhanwanthary. The actor, who garnered praise for writing and directing shot-at-home series A Viral Wedding, and playing Sucheta Dalal in one of the year’s most successful web shows – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story, looks back at 2020 with satisfaction.
In this exclusive interview, Shreya talks about her successful outings, The Family Man 2 and more.
Here are excerpts from the conversation:
Abhishek Banerjee, who moved to Mumbai in 2008, got several blink-and-miss roles in movies
SOON after Abhishek Banerjee finished shooting for Paatal Lok in June 2019, he left for a month-long trip to Europe with his wife, Tina Noronha. The actor had found himself uncharacteristically angry, anxious and even possessive of his wife when he was shooting for the web-series as the serial killer, Hathoda Tyagi. Travelling was his way of leaving behind the intensity the character demanded.
Mumbai was under lockdown when Paatal Lok’s release was announced this April. “The announcement brought back memories of Hathoda Tyagi,” recalls Banerjee, whose portrayal of the negative character brought him wide recognition.
Jitendra Kumar never thought he could become an actor.
Jitendra Kumar had never harboured any dreams of being an actor. Theatre and acting happened by chance when he was pursuing civil engineering at IIT Kharagpur. After that, there was no looking back. A fellow student Biswapati Sarkar pushed Kumar, facilitating his entry into the world of online content in 2012-13. As his videos went viral, Kumar became a familiar face. The year 2020 looked promising with two big releases as the romantic lead opposite Ayushmann Khurrana in Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (the film, directed by Hitesh Kewalya and Rohit Sharma, released in February), and the web-series Panchayat (released on Prime Video this April).
‘I’ve been in the industry for a decade, but nothing mattered until Scam 1992’
From a Telugu movie, to TV advertisements, and web-series like Ladies Room and The Family Man, Shreya Dhanwanthary was still waiting for a role to reckon with. Updated: December 20, 2020 8:47:11 am
Dhanwanthary had been waiting for a role like the one she played in Scam 1992.
First Role: Playing college girl Shailu in Telugu film Sneha Geetham (2010)
Standout Act: A Viral Wedding (Eros Now/Prime Video), Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story (SonyLIV)
“I have been in the industry for a decade, but nothing mattered until Scam 92,” says actor Shreya Dhanwanthary, 29, who plays the complex role of the journalist Sucheta Dalal in the Hansal Mehta-directed Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story. “I did Ladies Room (TV miniseries, 2016) with Yash Raj Films, and it became a big thing, and was critically acclaimed, too. But people didn’t put together that it was th
A Viral Wedding to The Gone Game, how Covid-19 made its pop-culture debut in 2020
A Viral Wedding to The Gone Game, how Covid-19 made its pop-culture debut in 2020
In 2020, many filmmakers took inspiration from the coronavirus pandemic and came out with films and web series with Covid-19 as the central theme. Most of these projects were written, shot and edited in isolation during the lockdown.
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UPDATED: December 22, 2020 12:16 IST
From A Viral Wedding to The Gone Game, many web series and films shot in lockdown were based on Covid-19.
2020 began with great hopes. At the start of the year, everyone was bustling with creative energy and had plans for the future. But nothing went according to the plan for coronavirus arrived and put a halt to almost everything. Many projects couldn t see the day of light while others were stopped in the middle as shooting was not allowed. But does anybody have any control on creativity? No, right? The year of doom brought a new hope