If we were to say two of the most loved and successful pieces of Hindi entertainment in recent years, Stree and Paatal Lok have one thing in common, one would probably start scratching their head. These two are starkly different from each other: the story, the narration, the makers, the genre, and even the locations. But one thing that was common was actor Abhishek Banerjee. 

Being a casting director himself, who even ran his own casting company, when Abhishek sat with mid-day’s podcast series The Bombay Film Story, we asked him if he would cast himself in the two distinctive characters.