First, there was Kumud Mishra’s genial canteen owner Khatana in Rockstar (2011). A few years later, came Sriram Raghavan’s Badlapur (2015...
First, there was Kumud Mishra’s genial canteen owner Khatana in Rockstar (2011). A few years later, came Sriram Raghavan’s Badlapur (2015), in which Mishra played the wily cop Govind. A 180-degree departure was Mishra’s Jatav, the compromised but sincere sub-inspector in Article 15 (2019).
Over the past decade, the Mumbai theatre veteran has sparkled in a variety of roles, from someone as despicable as a man preying on his daughter in The Girl in Yellow Boots (2011) to the world’s best father in the February release Thappad.
The versatile Mishra will be finally seen in a lead role in Nitin Kakkar’s much-delayed Ram Singh Charlie, which will be streamed on Sony Liv from August 28. Mishra plays Ram Singh, a circus artist and Charlie Chaplin impersonator. When the circus closes down, Ram Singh struggles to make ends meet.
The Kolkata-set film stars Divya Dutta as Ram Singh’s wife. Ram Singh Charlie was screened at film festivals in 2016. In a previous interview with Scroll.in, Nitin Kakkar said that the movie didn’t get a conventional release because “the distribution network said it’s not a good return-on-investment film”.
For Mishra, making Ram Singh Charlie was a “war”, just like mounting a stage production. “When you see your director carrying lights and serving food to all the actors, then even we start sharing tasks beyond our call...
