It’s Friday Night Fallacy

The deaf and mute boy’s dream with the duce had roared into reality with Iqbal joining the Men in Blue. Iqbal was perhaps the most career-defining film for Shreyas Talpade. He unlearned a lot while doing the film and learned a lot more that would take him miles in Bollywood. His humble middle-class upbringing helped Shreyas through the years of struggle before Iqbal and shape up for the journey into stardom beyond Iqbal. There’s something common, he feels, between the screen life and the real life. “You do not know what awaits you tomorrow or the day after – just like we do not know what lies ahead for the film the next Friday.” The uncertainty teaches us to be prepared for any kind of crisis. The pandemic has taught us what uncertainty could be. “In fact, it is this preparedness that differentiates between a winner and a loser,” says Shreyas....