First Rome, now Cannes, and finally London. Ali Fazal is on a whirlwind tour as he promotes his upcoming film, Kandahar, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. “I move to some press junkets in London next. It’s an exciting time. Kandahar is a big-ticket movie, and now, we are waiting for the audience’s nod,” he says, squeezing in a chat with us, in his hectic schedule.    

Director Ric Roman Waugh, who has previously helmed Angel Has Fallen (2019), brings an action thriller with the Gerard Butler and Fazal-starrer. Kandahar, which releases in the US tomorrow, is another win for Fazal who has been steadily making inroads into the West since fronting Victoria & Abdul (2017). In the past six years, he admits there has been a dynamic shift in the casting of actors. “Every role landed, every audition cracked proves that inclusion is actively practiced. Hollywood is not shying away from using people from across the globe. Actors can dive into any part, and geography shouldn’t stop us.”