Actor Shashank Arora’s films boast of competing at more than two hundred film festivals. But acting is not the only thing on his plate, we discover, when we meet him for a quick chat over coffee...
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“A bit of writing and studying!” That’s how Shashank Arora describes a usual day in his life. The actor, who will be seen alongside Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Nandita Das’ biographical drama Manto, is preparing to don the hat of a director. “I am going to be directing a series which will be streaming on a good platform soon. It’s been six years that I had last directed two short films. So you know the tools get rusted. That’s why I am going back to the basics of how to tell and structure a story,” he tells us. Although Shashank confesses that the whole process of being a director makes him cry as he has established himself as an actor and not a director. Hence, nobody seems to be taking him seriously on that front. But his love for cinema keeps him going.
This story is from the June 2018 edition of SOCIETY.
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