In these trying times, director Amar Kaushik managed to shoot Bhediya, starring Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon, without any hiccups. Abhishek Banerjee, who plays a supporting role in the horror-comedy, wonders whether the team would have been able to pull off this feat in any state other than Arunachal Pradesh. “The state has not seen a drastic surge in COVID-19 cases. It’s one of the safest places [in the country] probably because of the way people have lent their lives to nature and have [encouraged] forestation. If the film was not shot in Arunachal Pradesh, I don’t know how safe we would have felt,” says the Paatal Lok actor, who is in Goa after having wrapped up the film.

Abhishek Banerjee