Abhishek Banerjee On His Role In 'Rana Naidu': By Far, The Most Difficult Character I Have Attempted

Abhishek Banerjee rose to fame with his spine-chilling character in ‘Paatal Lok’. The talented actor has garnered immense praise and a unique fan following by playing versatile roles in multiple projects including ‘Pitchers’, ‘Stree’, and ‘Bhediya’. He is now set to be seen playing one of the significant characters in the Venkatesh and Rana Daggubati starrer ‘Rana Naidu’, which is the highly anticipated crime-thriller series on Netflix.

The makers have recently dropped the trailer of the web show, which is all set to stream from March 10. During the trailer launch event, Abhishek shared his thoughts on his character in the show and said that he was looking for something that challenges him more. 

He shared, "It is by far the most difficult character I have attempted. It was way out of my comfort zone.. lately I have been doing all the UPites and North Indian characters, which made people think I am from Kanpur Ilahabad. But I was looking for something that challenged me more. And I think, whenever you have to get to some kind of diction or like an accent which is not very familiar to you then I think you start thinking about it more. So, to do that was the most challenging part for me."

"You will see how messed up my character is when you see the show. To just mess up my mind for a character and thanks to Suparn (Verma) and Karan (Anshuman) I think they both have a very dark mind. So I think they went way beyond the original," he added.

Abhishek Banerjee, who has an array of award winning performances and characters to his credit like, 'Pataal Lok', 'Mirzapur', 'Stree' & 'Bhediya', is all set to enthral the audiences once again with his acting chops in the much anticipated 'Rana Naidu'.

Looking at a power packed line-up of projects ahead, Abhishek will be also seen in 'Stree 2', 'Dream Girl 2' and 'Apurva'.