Abhishek Choubey
Review Of Ankahee Kahaniyan: Interesting Trio Of Stories
Ankahee Kahaniyan(Netflix) Directed by Ashwini Iyer Tiwari,Abhishek Choubey, Saket Choudhary Rating: *** One of the three stories that constitute this quaint compendium is so above the other two, and then one of them is so awful that we are left with mixed feelings. First , the stand-out episode directed by Abhishek Choubey(none of three episodes have titles). Choubey who is making a habit of oustaging his peers in anthologies(remember his Hungama Hai Kyon Barpa in Netflix’s Ray?) guves us a haunting workingclass romance set in the 1980s.It is a mass | Click Here...
I am very greedy when it comes to working with a director like Abhishek (Choubey): Manoj Bajpayee
We had scarcely stopped raving over your performance in The Family Man when you delivered another knockout performance in Hungama Hai Kyon Barpa. How do you it? (Laughs) How do I do it?I just prepare in collaboration with my director and try to stay true to his vision. And I don’t take anything for granted and trying to evolve all the time. All the craft that I learnt over the years in theatre and cinema, from other actors and reading…it all comes handy when I am preparing for arole How did you perceive your character Musafir Ali? | Click Here...
Ray Desecrated, Bengal Appalled
Purists in Bengal are horrified by the tone tenor content and language of Netflix’s Ray,an anthology of four stories written by the iconic Satyajit Ray and brought to the screen by directors Srirjit Mukherjee, Abhishek Choubey and Vasan Bala. “This is not Ray at all,” a leading Bengali filmmaker tells me. “I am shocked that Srijit Mukhrerjee who is familiar with Ray’s work should deem it fit to turn around Ray’s stories and subvert them.” New characters have been added to the original stories,the settings have been changed to a contemporary urba | Click Here...