In 2020, when actor Rahul Bhat was going through a bleak phase in his personal life, his art brought him the solace he sought. “I was going through a divorce. Then, the pandemic happened. It was gloomy and dull. Then the script of Kennedy came my way,” he recounts. Anurag Kashyap’s films often show us the dark side of humanity — hardly the kind that brings one comfort. But in the noir drama Kennedy, Bhat found an outlet to creatively channel his inner turmoil. “The script was too dark. Perhaps Anurag was going through his own catharsis at that point. He let me read the script only once, and then took it away. But I felt this was the story I was 
looking for.”

Rahul Bhat and (right) Sunny Leone in the film