On a Vishal Bhardwaj set, an actor needs to maintain that fine balance between thorough prep and spontaneity. Wamiqa Gabbi knows that all too well having worked with the filmmaker on his segment in Modern Love Mumbai (2022), Fursat, and the upcoming Khufiya. But Gabbi says that shooting for their latest collaboration, Charlie Chopra, was all about homework. “I have never read scripts as many times as I read Charlie Chopra,” she recounts.

The duo have previously worked on Fursat and Modern Love Mumbai