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Mukesh Chhabra: Casting for web series is creatively liberating than films

By IANS | Updated: December 13, 2020 18:16 IST

Mumbai, Dec 13 Few people in Bollywood understand the art of casting as Mukesh Chhabra does. The casting director-filmmaker, ...

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Mumbai, Dec 13 Few people in Bollywood understand the art of casting as Mukesh Chhabra does. The casting director-filmmaker, who worked wonders finalising actors for numerous films and shows including the International Emmy Award-winning Delhi Crime, says casting in a web series is far more liberating creatively than in feature films. However, films will always be his first love, he asserts.

 

"Casting is always an important part of a film or show because, at the end of the day, they are the faces of the characters we have in the script, in our imagination. But something very important is playing a key role in the new-age casting process. There is a distinction between casting actors for a show as opposed to casting for a film," Chhabra told .

He explained: "For a show, we

( With inputs from IANS )

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