The New Crew

Many of them are able to make a mark,whther or not they have the right pedigree. Shikha Talsania,Tiku Talsania’s daughter who played the character of Lakshmi in Wake Up Sid was considered impressive. As was Prateek Babbar,son of late actor Smita Patil who caught eyeballs in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. Often,people give up lucrative careers in order to do what they enjoy. Aseem Tiwari gave up his job as an investment banker to make his debut as an actor in I Hate Luv Storys. What he cherishes from that experience is working with a young cast and crew. “It is somewhat uptight when one is working with seniors. But here there was a lot of energy and space to experiment. It brought down a lot of walls,” he says.

The scene was same on the sets of Aisha,being produced by Rhea Kapoor,the 23-year-old daughter of Anil Kapoor. The set was bubbling with fresh faces,all focused on one thing: work. “Do your job well,be open to ideas,be down to earth and no one will violate your space,” says Kapoor. Arunoday Singh is one such young entrant,who will play a philandering character called Dhruv in Aisha after having starred in Piyush Jha’s Sikandar. “With young people,the world tends to be flat with no divide and one fits in fine. It’s just a bunch of young,focused,creative individuals who are professional enough to pull it off,” he adds. For Lisa Haydon too,life on the sets of Aisha became a lot simpler thanks to the presence of young people around her. Theatre actor and model Amrita Puri,who got her role in Aisha courtesy Facebook,echoed similar feelings.

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap is a strong advocate of change and when he is at work,he hires a team of “20 somethings,because when you are 36,creativity follows the Law of Diminishing Returns. You are more aware,conscious and think more,so creativity takes a backseat. When you are 20,you’re on a adrenaline rush of creativity,” he signs off.