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Abhishek Banerjee: Life has come full circle
Updated On: 06 September, 2021 06:21 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
The casting director-actor, who has featured in shows like `Paatal Lok` and `Mirzapur`, tells mid-day.com`s Natasha Coutinho D`souza he has no plans of giving up casting
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Abhishek Banerjee on his future projects
Abhishek Banerjee is a popular face on OTT, having featured in shows like `Paatal Lok`, `Mirzapur`, besides movies like `Ajeeb Dastaans`. He has big ticket films like `Dostana 2`, `Bhediya` and `Rashmi Rocket` to look forward to this year. While being an actor was always the dream, he started out as a casting director and says he couldn’t be happier to feature in films for the same directors that he still continues to cast for.
Going down memory lane, the actor recalls, “I started out by assisting Gautam Kishanchandani as a casting director. Milan Luthria’s `Once Upon a Time in Mumbai` was my first assignment and he liked my work. Later he offered Gautam `Dirty Picture`, but he was busy writing his first script. Milan sir asked him if I could do it. The film went on to become a big hit and I became a known casting director with my partner Anmol Ahuja, hoping that one day a director would notice my acting skills. Despite that when I would attend auditions, I remember this famous casting director made me wait outside his office for an hour but didn’t even meet me. At times I would doubt myself because nobody was giving me selection calls but I was making selection calls to other actors."
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