Bollywood actor Ishaan Khatter is being praised for his role in the series The Royals. In an interview with Zoom, he discussed his experience of working with Tabu in A Suitable Boy, especially while shooting intimate scenes, and explained how she helped him feel comfortable and secure on set.
Ishaan Khatter opens up on doing intimate scenes with Tabu in A Suitable Boy; says, “I was not freaked out”
Ishaan attributed the success of their on-screen chemistry in A Suitable Boy to the quality of the writing. He mentioned that the script intentionally addressed the age difference between their characters, which added authenticity to their relationship and made it feel genuine within the story’s context.
He also remembered how Tabu helped him feel safe during delicate scenes and said, “And with an actress like Tabu, honestly, it’s like, you don’t have to talk about it. I don’t know, this might sound off or something, but I was not freaked out, absolutely not. In fact, I felt safer, because I was playing off an actor who I knew would not only understand what I’m doing, but like, take it somewhere else, and I think, that’s the beauty of it with Tabu, we never had to speak about what we’re doing in a scene.”
Talking more about the shoot, Ishaan described the intimate scenes with Tabu as effortless. He said, “She would be talking about random things, like, what do you want for lunch or something, or like, usko dekha kaise aankhe banara tha… She is very naughty, she’s like a child on set. She could be making a joke, and then suddenly, she could be like this character. So like, I think it was fun, just so much fun working with her because so much of what we do is, of course, you bring the words to life. But so much of what we do is, how do you make a moment dense? How do you make it come alive? How do you communicate more without saying anything? And it just happened, like, seamlessly with Tabu, you know, it was just like a conversation with our eyes.”
The television drama series A Suitable Boy, directed by Mira Nair and adapted by Andrew Davies from Vikram Seth’s 1993 novel, stars Tanya Maniktala, Tabu, Ishaan Khatter, Rasika Dugal, Mahira Kakkar, Ram Kapoor, Namit Das, Vivaan Shah, Mikhail Sen, Danesh Rizvi, Shahana Goswami, Ranvir Shorey, Vijay Varma, and Kulbhushan Kharbanda in major roles.
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