Casting director Nikita Grover scoured streets, social media, and cafes to cast Paatal Lok Season 2. She skipped 'cliche casting' and fought for some of her picks.
In a streaming landscape crowded with stylised violence and formulaic crime lords, Sudip Sharma brings in cops and villains who are complex and human, Nagaland to Punjab.
Jahnu Barua, a 12-time National Award-winning director, made his acting debut in Paatal Lok Season 2 as Uncle Ken. ‘Prefer being behind the camera,’ he says.
Jaideep Ahlawat, who modelled Inspector Hathi Ram's lopsided walk on his schoolteacher father’s, acknowledges that the world is full of people like him – invisible, unidentifiable, missable.
Merenla Imsong is now one of India’s most recognisable Northeastern actors. She was so convincing as drug addict Rose Lizo in Paatal Lok that fans tell her to ‘get well soon’.
For five years after winning a National Award, Avinash Arun Dhaware did not direct. Instead, he found solace as a cinematographer. From Irrfan Khan to Vicky Kaushal, he has shot the who’s who of Bollywood.
The success of Firoz Alam, a constable in Delhi Police, is similar to that of the fictional character Imran Ansari in last year's Amazon Prime show Paatal Lok.
Saif Ali Khan's Sartaj Singh from Netflix’s show can take a rest. My latest ‘grey’ character crush is Hathi Ram Chaudhary in Paatal Lok, played by Jaideep Ahlawat.
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.
Tina Das is just obsessed with Nagaland and north-east India.