‘Class’ has undoubtedly been the talk of the town for quite some time now, from trending on #1 on Netflix India for weeks, to its cast being everyone’s absolute favourite. The show has won hearts and how for its gripping plot and intense characters. The cast including Moses Koul, Ayesha Kanga, Chintan Rachchh, Zeyn Shaw, Anjali Sivaraman and Chayan Chopra in an exclusive roundtable with Shravan Shah, Content Head from the team of MissMalini spoke about the show and all that went down shooting it.
Shravan started off by talking about how every character gets love or empathy from the audience at some point, but knowing what Sharan does in the last episode, he asks Moses whether people came to him in real life asking why he did so, to which he said…
There was a lot of name calling initially you know, and I realized it was happening and it was affecting me a little. Purely because I am an insecure actor, because I am new to this. It’s like the first time I remember how it felt when I put my first song out. However now if I put a song out, and you tell me that you don’t like this song, I’ll be like okay maybe that is not your taste. Bu right now that matuarity really hasn’t set in (in terms of acting). My mom had a panic attack once when she saw the last episode. She was like um my son is going to jail.
Shravan also talks about how Class was a classic example of how there were 11 debutants uh each selected basis of their merit, and he asks Chintan whether this makes him believe that he is an artist at the right time. Here’s what he had to say…
I can speak for myself but I don’t think anybody of us is very talented that way we have been picked up just because we stand very near to the character. And Ashim told me that you don’t have to act, like I want you the way you are and that’s what I picked up from him that he likes real characters and not actors who play certain characters. Now coming to the a-lister part uh being very clear I it’s not my project. It is wesome’s project it was this call in the end to take all the newcomers and technically speaking if you cast a known person in a show like this people already have a perception of that person so that doesn’t work out. Now anybody of us hasn’t really done something very you know, that’s out there. That’s why I think people find the performance also very believable just because they have no attributes of you.
One of the points raised by Shravan in this interview is how in Indian Cinema we are sold two ideas, of either an angry young man or the hardcore romantic, and points out how one of the reasons why Class is relatable is because the characters fit in neither of the worlds.
To find out more, check out the full interview below…