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This is an archive article published on October 9, 2021
Squid Game actor Anupam Tripathi on the show’s immense popularity: ‘I was not prepared’
While speaking to Variety, Anupam Tripathi, who grew up in New Delhi, said, "We felt that it will be received well, but when it became a phenomenon and sensation, it was not expected – I was not prepared."
Anupam Tripathi was taken aback by the immense popularity of Squid Game. (Photo: Anupam Tripathi/Instagram)
Indian-origin South Korea-based actor Anupam Tripathi, who has become a world-famous name thanks to Netflix’s survival drama Squid Game has said that he was taken aback by the immense popularity of the show. Tripathi plays Ali on the Netflix series.
The show, which has become a global phenomenon, is a Hwang Dong-hyuk creation and is about a Hunger Games-like competition that lures in common people who are in debt and promises them loads of money upon winning. But the consequences of losing are deadly — literally. Anyone who does not progress to the next round ends up dead.
While speaking to Variety, the actor, who grew up in New Delhi, said, “We felt that it will be received well, but when it became a phenomenon and sensation, it was not expected – I was not prepared.”
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