Aditya Seal on Working with Priyadarshan in Anamika: He Is a Pure Genius

He continued, “This man (Priyadarshan) is a genius. He has given such comedy films forever and to suddenly showcase something like this, and to do it so nicely, is amazing.”

“His way of working is very different. Every scene that he is doing, he is editing in his mind. For example, if the first two lines of the scene is a close-up, the next two will be something else. He will shoot it like that. He will only take two lines in a close-up, he will take the next two lines in a two-shot or whatever he sees fit. But that’s how he works, he just knows his project at the back of his mind, and I haven’t seen anything like this before. It made my life very easy, because I surrendered totally,” Aditya explained.

Aditya plays a young man who falls in love with an older woman. This isn’t the first time he was doing so. The actor debuted in 2002 with Ek Chhotisi Love Story with Manisha Koirala where he played a teenager infatuated with an older woman.

Aditya said, “This was a running joke on set, he (Priyadarshan) would come and tell me, ‘you have fallen in love with this woman, and she is much older than you. But that’s nothing new for you, you have done it before right?’ And I would say, ‘but I haven’t done it in reality.’ Of course I have, have fallen in love. Let’s call it love because as a teenager, you sometimes have an attraction towards your teachers, and that did happen with me. So it was a lot of fun.”