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Shobdo Jobdo: Rajat Kapoor’s Foray into the Web Format

Rajat Kapoor speaks to Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri on the challenges of playing the lead in an ‘alien’ language

It is by all accounts a bizarre sequence – a middle-aged writer and a young woman in a bathtub on the rooftop of a Los Angeles skyscraper, with heaps of books strewn all around. And what follows over seven episodes is often equally bizarre. Though hampered by rather shoddy writing at times, and though it could have done well with some tightening of the narrative given that it is pitched as a psychological thriller, Rajat Kapoor holds your attention as a successful pulp fiction writer losing his mind (or is he?) who arrives in India and finds his life falling apart…Click here to read the full story