Walking down the memory lane, Sarthak recollected: “Around the time I had begun writing Dharavi Bank, a few years back, I met Vivek Oberoi at the house of director-producer Sanjay Gupta. We were all having lunch together. During a casual chat he asked me what I was doing those days. I told him about this crazy show which I was writing called ‘Dharavi Bank’. When he heard that it was about a cop who single handedly takes on a big cartel, he said he wished he could do the role. “Bro, it’s completely up my alley!”
He continued: “Cut to almost 1 and half year later, somehow the producers approached him and he said that he has heard about it before. Until then I didn’t have any idea that Producers had approached him. Later, when he read it, he loved it and finally did it. I guess it was destined for him to play the part.”
He went on to call Vivek an “underrated actor, who packs a lot of punch” and was quite happy when things fell in place. “In fact, once the name came up I suddenly could see no one else playing Gavaskar,” he added.
–IANS
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