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Shahid Kapoor and filmmaking duo Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. talk about their new Amazon Prime Video release, Farzi

- Suhani Singh

IN the early days of shooting their second Amazon Prime Video series, Farzi (released on February 10), creators Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. took time to make sense of Shahid Kapoor's working style. Kapoor looks back at those days and thinks that he may have appeared "annoying sometimes". He says, "I was angst-y in my search for Sunny...There were a lot of thoughts in my head." The filmmakers let the 41-year-old actor do his thing and gradually came to appreciate his ability to keep track of events in the show even though it was not being shot linearly. "The story is quite complex, there's a lot to it," says Raj. "He doesn't look it, but he's a thinking actor."

That thinking actor makes his OTT debut with two of the most sought-after filmmakers in India whose thriller series, The Family Man (2019-), was wildly successful. It's no surprise then that when Raj and D.K. called Kapoor to pitch a film, he instead asked them whether they had a nifty idea for a longer-format storytelling.