Mumbai, “Shaque” marks actor Parineeti Chopra’s entry into the web series space, something that the actor says she wanted to do for a while.
Because if I had, I would have cried in every scene, i don’t think I could have done it. The series, which starts streaming on Netflix from Thursday, will feature Chopra in the role of a mother in search of her missing child. “I just wanted to do a series; it was just a new format for me that I had not explored. I had done reality shows, films, I wanted to do this new format, this series thing. “I wasn’t a mother then. At that time, I was purely acting, depending on the material and the director. I didn’t draw anything out of real life. Then there would have been no performance. The crime-thriller show is directed by Rensil D’Silva, who also serves as the creator, along with Siddharth P. Malhotra.
I wanted to be part of the binge-watching culture,” the actor told PTI. She said she had been in talks with Netflix for some time to find the right script. Counting “Game of Thrones” and “The Narcos” on Netflix among her favourite shows. For “Shaque”, Chopra said she did not draw from real life. The actor, who welcomed her son in October last year, said she discovered she was pregnant midway through the shoot of the show. So, thank God, I didn’t have a child in real-life then,” she said.
Chopra credited filmmaker Imtiaz Ali’s “Amar Singh Chamkila” as a major milestone in her career.
