Abhishek Banerjee calls Stolen’s win at Chetak Display screen Awards a ‘huge victory for unbiased filmmakers’

On April 5, on the Chetak Display screen Awards, Stolen, starring Abhishek Banerjee, emerged as one of many greatest winners within the OTT class, taking residence 4 main honours – ‘Finest OTT Movie’, ‘Finest Director’ for Karan Tejpal, ‘Finest Actor (Male)’ for Banerjee and ‘Finest Script’. For the casting director-turned-actor, the movie’s success is greater than only a win – it’s a validation of unbiased filmmaking pushed purely by ardour, usually with none certainty about its future.

Reflecting on the win, Abhishek Banerjee instructed SCREEN, “I feel there may be an immense degree of satisfaction as a result of once you work exhausting with out figuring out the long run. I feel that’s the intense quantity of ardour anyone can put into any challenge. If you find yourself doing a movie from an ecosystem of Bollywood or the business, it’ll launch or come on OTT. However as an actor, once you do a movie like ‘Stolen’, you don’t know whether it is ever going to see the sunshine of the day.”

He additional added, “You’re simply taking a component. You’re listening to the intuition and you’re believing folks whom you will have by no means met. I feel this entire expertise of with the ability to do a movie with utterly unknown folks after which making them your closest pal in life after which thriving like this in one of many oldest, legendary and credible award exhibits. I feel it’s a huge win for all unbiased filmmakers. All children. This exhibits that irrespective of the place you’re from, should you make a great movie, you’re going to get all of the glitz and glamour hooked up to it.”

Abhishek additionally opened up about his versatility throughout genres – from making audiences snigger as Jaana in ‘Stree’, to leaving them unsettled as Vishal Tyagi in ‘Pataal Lok’, to portraying a tragic, susceptible character in ‘Stolen’.

Whereas he initially quipped, “I’ve a number of persona dysfunction,” he went on to clarify, “I merely imagine that we people have all types of traits in us. It’s simply that we don’t use it in day-to-day life and as actors, we’re educated to evoke these feelings via our ability set. There isn’t a extraordinary expertise. It’s years of follow that make you an actor.”