Francis Ford Coppola famously said, “Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It’s for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.” The same thing can be said about spinoffs too. Given how superhero franchise films have turned into money-spinners, can we really blame the studios for going down that path? Almost every social media list of prospective Hindi film characters that deserve spinoffs, had one name prominently featured in them: Kahaani’s Bob Biswas. Come December 3, this story is set to unfold on Zee5 with Abhishek Bachchan stepping into the huge shoes of actor Saswata Chatterjee, whose eight-minute role, achieved cult status. “He is more than just a contract killer. He is a father, a husband, and a patient too. There are contradictions in this character. How can someone so nice and soft-spoken be a contract killer? I’m grateful that there are people who consider me worthy of such a challenging role,” says Abhishek.
Life has come full circle for Abhishek, given that this character was originally written by Sujoy Ghosh with the former in mind. Kahaani was supposed to be a two-person story featuring Bob and Vidya Bagchi. However, fate had other plans, the script was reworked, and the rest is history. “It is definitely flattering that characters are being written for me, but I don’t read too much into it because at the end of the day, the work we do talks more about us than the work we didn’t,” says Abhishek, who has had a golden run with the characters he has done recently.
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