For Jaideep Ahlawat, life can be divided into two halves: before May 15, 2020, and after it. That’s when Season 1 of the Amazon Prime Video show Paatal Lok released and viewers finally witnessed the range of his thespian skills, spread across nearly eight hours of compelling storytelling. “Be it the kind of scripts that came my way to my approach towards them, everything changed,” says Ahlawat, who until then was best known for an effective supporting turn in Raazi (2018). “People trusted me to anchor stories, and responsibility and expectations increased.” He wasn’t the only beneficiary of the critically acclaimed and audience-beloved show. Its creator and showrunner Sudip Sharma became a sought-after writer, co-director Avinash Arun got to develop his own show, and actor Ishwak Singh got noticed as did Abhishek Banerjee as the menacing dog-loving killer, Hathoda Tyagi.
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