Moonwalk Exclusive Interview: Star Cast of New Web Series ‘Moonwalk’ Talks About Their Character

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In a recent exclusive interview, Samir Kochar, Anshuman, and Nidhi—who are all cast members of "Moonwalk"—shared their initial thoughts upon learning about the new web series before revealing their respective responsibilities and storyline.  #Moonwalk #SamirKochar #Anshuman #Nidhi #Trending #2024 #BollywoodCountry #BollywoodNews #BollywoodGossips #BollywoodUpdates #BollywoodNews #Bollywood #Bollywoodcelebrity #BollywoodHindiNews #ians

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00:00Thanks guys. Thank you. As you can see, the love is very real. You know, I didn't want

00:11to play this character. I went to Ajay sir after reading the entire script. I said script

00:16is very fun but I want to play the other girl because I think I resonate more with her as

00:24a person. And Tejkaran sir and Ajay sir, both of them said, which is the reason why you

00:31should be playing Chandni because you will have to work harder. And of course, she was

00:37a bit of a fun challenge to play. So yeah, I was nervous and excited both.

00:42Look, I always believe that you don't choose a character, it's the story that chooses you.

00:54So with this particular, I was, you know, the sale, she was already gone and I was running

01:00behind it. I mean, the latest casting is mine, it came one or two days before. But when I

01:05read this script, I realized that thing that, you know, I said it earlier also but the thing

01:09is that with comedy, what I really feel, with quirk, what I really feel that the more

01:14difficulty is there with the objective of the characters, the more possibility is there

01:18to, you know, enjoy or perform. So with the vast characters I have seen, I have seen everybody

01:25has different kind of difficulties and that difficulty is creating such a situation where

01:30you can enjoy yourself.

01:32So with Moonwalk and the kind of subject it was, it's a unique subject which you generally

01:36don't get to read around you. So for the first time, it was very important to believe that

01:40whether you can do it or not. But really, enduring that, once you get into the script

01:46and when the plot gets set for each episode, then you are into it. So yes, definitely.

01:52And the concept of heist and the question you asked, as I said, the difficulties will be

01:58with each character, all the characters in this, there is a different difficulty with

02:02them, with their objectives. And they create a great situation where there are a lot of

02:06possibilities to enjoy. Not just for us, definitely it will be for the audience.

02:15Yeah, when I heard of Moonwalk for the first time from Ajay Bhuyan, he had called me,

02:20so I thought it's a film about dance. I thought that you are using Moonwalk and that's Michael

02:25Jackson's Moonwalk. So I had no idea what the script was. So I met him in the office

02:29and then I saw him sitting back on the chair and saying that I am trying to make something

02:33very interesting, very trippy. Or trying to create a world of my own where, can you imagine

02:39a story that has a moon rock in it? I'm like, so it's sci-fi. He said, no, no, no.

02:43But it's also got like thieves in it who are doing a heist. I said, okay, thieves and moon rock.

02:48Then it's also got a challenge of thieves who want to win over a girl. I said, okay.

02:52And then he said the girl also cannot decide and choose and she wants to decide between

02:56two guys and she wants both men. So I said, my God, this is mad. So I got very intrigued

03:01by the overall plot. I thought this is something that will be fun. And then when he started

03:06speaking about my character, he said, yeah, listen, Sam, I don't want you to be playing

03:09what you've been doing earlier. I want to give you a different look in it. I want to have

03:12a different feel for you. I want to make your character as mad as possible.

03:16Then when he started telling me about my character, Maddy Sharma and the experiences

03:20he goes through and the kind of heist artist he thinks that he is and who does the jobs

03:25and how his heart is actually very fragile in life and how he falls in love or pretends

03:32to fall in love, then falls in love. And he moves through a course of a journey with all

03:36these wonderful characters that each episode has something new coming your way.

03:41The whole competition starts off over love. It goes into, there are commodes in this story.

03:47There are, there are necklaces in this story. There is a moon rock in this story.

03:51There's just every layer of madness that comes in. So I really had a good time.

03:55If you're asking that, what was my first reaction when I saw it, I was like, this is very interesting.

04:00It's very trippy. Aisi film mein maine bahut khud dekhi hain. Or I've not had a chance

04:04to act in movies or web series like this. So when I heard it from him saying that his

04:08intentions were to make something very different, very unique and something which is not,

04:13not, not a very straight line kind of a show. Hala ke plot bada straight line hai.

04:17Wo uski yehi koshish thi Ajay ki, kaha mein left lekar jaao, kaha mein right lekar jaao,

04:22kaise iss kahaani ko mein aur matlab ek naya flavour doon, which is very intriguing to know.

04:26So I think that was my first reaction to it.

04:33No, I didn't take inspiration from anybody because Tariq has a different, it is, you know,

04:39it is that kind of, kind of character where you see every day, in every day to day life

04:43that, that is a person there. But when you go inside the person, he has some uniqueness,

04:47some quirk, which is very unique with that thing. Like he is a typical chaur, jo aap

04:53bolte hain ki raah chalta chaur, aap dekh sakto hai, waisa hai. But he has a different,

04:57you know, psychic in that thing that he wants to leave a signature mark with that thing.

05:01Yes, I did that thing. People has to know that I am that thief. So he is very clear

05:06with the idea what he wants to achieve in life. He is that kind of character who doesn't

05:10think too much. Every difficulty is fun for him. Every difficulty, until it is not there,

05:15he is not enjoying life. So he can escape from any, any sort of, you know, situation

05:20and all. I am not particularly like that. I have never seen a person who doesn't think

05:24that way. But yes, somehow there is relativity also. And when you get into the story, you

05:30see a cast like that, you understand by their eyes only, you understand what kind of person

05:36they are looking. So somehow I achieved that thing by, you know, getting into it. And

05:40slowly, slowly, I understood that what he really wants to be or achieve.

05:50I didn't try to make him likeable at all. I tried to portray him the way he was. And

05:55I was told that he is a very highly competitive con artist who will go to any lengths to win.

06:02And he does not like losing. He has very high regards of his own abilities as a thief.

06:07So when he is put in front of a competition, taking on Tariq's character, saying that

06:13it's either you or me, it will bring out a side of him that he will do whatever it

06:18takes that he has to win the competition. So I didn't have any quirks about making

06:23him likeable or nice. I played him like the way he is. There's also an angle of his

06:29home front, which is his mother. So he's basically got a lot of mommy issues in life too.

06:35My mother's played by Sheeba Chadha and we've had some great scenes together to show

06:40the side of his vulnerability as well as somebody away from just being this con artist.

06:44So yeah, we played it the way it was. We tried to add a lot of layers to the characters.

06:49We tried to do a lot of fun stuff in the scenes to make it look like he can be this devious.

06:55He can also be vulnerable. He's also somebody who might not be wanting to find love

07:02but that also happens along the way. So I guess it was a mixture of all these things.

07:06We had a good time doing it. I think a lot of credit to Ajay for our director that is

07:10to give us the right path, the right confidence and bring about a whole sense of camaraderie

07:15in the team. And he's a really wonderful actor to work with. So when you work with them,

07:19with both of them, with everybody else in the show as well, they all were in the same

07:24zone that we have to do something in the scene that takes it away. So in our competition

07:28scenes between me and Anshuman, we've kind of ad-libbed a lot of stuff.

07:34Like when we were fighting there, he said, you guys bicker now.

07:37So we said, you guys get on top of each other. Now what we were saying to each other

07:41was on the spot. He was saying something. I was saying something in French.

07:45He was saying something. A little bit of abuse came out of his mouth.

07:47A little bit of abuse came out of my mouth in English. So it was a lot of stuff that

07:50we were tripping on and we used to laugh once the director said cut.

07:52We would laugh after that thinking, what did we say?

07:55Then we look back in the monitor and say, this is looking interesting because

07:58we saw the crew laughing then. Similarly with Nidhi as well, it was the most bizarre romance

08:05because we were saying stuff to each other and we were both pretending and acting

08:09and we know it but yet we were saying it to each other.

08:12So I had a really good time playing Maddy.

08:25Chandani is out and out a thrill seeker and playing her in a way was,

08:31obviously initially it was not my job to judge the character that I'm playing.

08:35It is my job to understand the character and play it with full conviction.

08:39But I had a hard time sinking my teeth into this one because there were some things

08:44that she would do and say and I would be like, that's a little much.

08:48And I had my days but once I would anchor myself in it, it was very freeing.

08:59When I see it from the point of view of Chandani, they are not actually that different.

09:04They are in a similar kind of profession which is very exciting for Chandani.

09:10She likes the fact that a guy would do a dangerous thing for her.

09:14And her trip in life is, who will be the one taking the biggest risk for me?

09:20That is the one I'm going to trust and that's the one I'm going to be with.

09:23So she has massive trust issues and instead of them realising that she has problems,

09:28they are caught up in her drama. That is just basically that.

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