While his latest offering The Accidental Prime Minister hit theatres last week, Anupam Kher is stationed in the US shooting for New Amsterdam. In keeping with his character of a neurosurgeon of Indian origin in the NBC medical drama, we hear, Kher convinced the makers to incorporate the Hanuman Chalisa in a crucial sequence of a recently-shot episode.

A source reveals, "The scene had to depict Anupam sir's emotional state as one of his patients' condition gets worse. It was to show him offering a silent prayer for the patient. Instead, Anupam sir suggested to Stephen Kay [director] that he could recite the devotional hymn while holding the idol of Lord Hanuman. He explained how according to Indian beliefs, it is considered as a source of strength and power."