Abhishek Banerjee on Legacy: ‘Made me conscious of how storytelling adjustments`
In 2026, Abhishek Banerjee might have three tasks lined up on the identical platform, however he insists they couldn’t be extra totally different from each other. Whereas the actor is happy about being a part of Netflix’s anthology Lust Tales 3 and Rajkummar Rao’s maiden manufacturing Toaster, the venture closest to his coronary heart is Legacy. In any case, it marks his first Tamil internet collection. “Working in a special language and cultural setting pushed me out of my consolation zone. It made me extra conscious, extra ready, and extra respectful of how storytelling adjustments with context and area,” he stated of the crime drama led by R Madhavan.
Not like Legacy, Lust Tales 3 might have provided Banerjee a well-recognized language, however the materials made him discover unfamiliar terrain. The actor, who stars in filmmaker Vikramaditya Motwane’s section of the anthology, shared, “Lust Tales has all the time been daring, sincere, and unapologetic in the best way it talks about relationships and need. It permits you to discover silences, awkwardness, and vulnerability — issues we don’t usually discuss overtly. As an actor, that house is each horrifying and liberating.” In the meantime, Toaster, a comedy, is starkly reverse to the extra severe choices.
Conscious of the variability he has on his plate, the actor mirrored, “That’s the fantastic thing about the place storytelling is right this moment. As actors, we’re now not confined to 1
picture or format.”
Abhishek Banerjee and Konkona Sensharma
Abhishek Banerjee can even be seen in ‘Lust Tales 3’ alongside Konkona Sensharma, Radhika Apte, and Vijay Varma
