Nineties star Raveena Tandon is making her streaming debut with the Netflix series Aranyak , 30 years after her first movie Patthar Ke Pho...
Nineties star Raveena Tandon is making her streaming debut with the Netflix series Aranyak, 30 years after her first movie Patthar Ke Phool. Tandon also plays a key role in the upcoming KGF: Chapter 2.
Written by Charudutt Acharya and Rohan Sippy and directed by Vinay Waikul, Aranyak stars Tandon as Kasturi Dogra, a police officer who leads the investigation into the disappearance of a tourist in a hillside town. The cast includes Parambrata Chatterjee, Ashutosh Rana, Meghna Malik and Zakir Hussain. Out on December 10, Aranyak gave Tandon the opportunity to combine entertainment with a strong social message, she told Scroll.in.
What about ‘Aranyak’ made it the right project for your streaming debut?
I have been offered quite a few shows before. Some of them were very good and are successful now.
But if you have seen my previous films, you will notice that I am drawn to strong female character-driven scripts. It has been a conscious effort to do films that have a slight but sure message.
Kasturi Dogra is someone whom a majority of women will identify with. Women are multi-taskers. We want to be great mothers, great daughters and great wives and do well in our chosen careers too. I tell my husband [distributor Anil Thadani] that sometimes being on a set is more...
