Pagglait has garnered a lot of appreciation from all quarters of moviegoers and filmmakers.
The film starring Sanya Malhotra, has collected appreciation not just for it’s leading lady, but for it’s entire cast, which also includes the very taletned – Aasif Khan.
Aasif plays the role of Parchun in the film directed by Umesh Bist, released on 26 March 2021 on Netflix, which revolves around a recently widowed young woman, played by Malhotra – and how she walks through this new facet of her life.
For Khan, it is an opportunity to reflect back on the journey of being an ‘unconventional actor’ who does not necessarily cater to the idea of what makes a ‘mainstream hero’ in Bollywood.
In a recent interview with Indiatimes the actor was heard giving props to the likes of Irrfan Khan, for opening the doors for other talents like him, who do not have to look like the conventional ‘hero types’ to make a career in the Hindi film industry, anymore.
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Here’s what he was quoted telling the publication:
“If any actor who has international level talent was Irrfan Khan. And the work today, actors like us are getting is because of him, all the credit goes to him because he made us believe you don’t need a conventional look to became an actor.”
He also stated:
“Earlier why these commercial films used to work because that time people didn’t want to watch the regular story but a story of a hero with a story of larger than life. They wanted to watch what they couldn’t do or become. But today audiences have become very smart, they want to see relevant content, like it happens in west. Also I feel OTT has come much later, I feel this credit goes to Irrfan Khan because he was the only one to make a bridge between commercial and parallel cinema and was loved on both sides.”
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Very true words by Aasif.
We are now living in times which have progressed for the better, especially when compared to the Hindi cinema of some 20 years ago.
Audiences today, do not care for big-names and pretty faces as much as they did back then, and content-driven cinema has earned a new lease of life – among the masses, giving birth to countless opportunities to talents, who do not fit the mainstream bracket.
Let us continue to celebrate the art of filmmaking with these talents.