Ghai reveals that he wrote 36 Farmhouse during the lockdown, and casting for it was the easiest process for him. “It was easy for me as the writer-producer to cast Sanjay Mishra and Vijay Raaz as proven veteran actors to play the senior roles. But I wanted an apt cast of a younger team too. I didn’t want a starry-star but a good actor from any platform or institution,” he shares, and that’s when he met Amol.
The filmmaker was introduced to the young actor by his executive producer Vishal Gandhi. “I knew I was meeting a very simple boy with a lot of depth in his eyes and his voice. He sat quietly, hardly talked but he smiled at every point of the character I narrated to him. And that’s it. He was cast. Though I had never seen his previous work on OTT, I knew I was meeting a good actor in him who could justify the struggle of a driven yet jobless tailor master, who has his family’s burden on him and still can smile,” he insists, adding that once the audience watches the film, they’ll understand what he means. “You’d have to watch him in 36 Farmhouse to believe what I said—he is an actor with depth and at ease in front of the camera.”
Amol is a part of this new generation of actors and Ghai believes that this generation do have a lot to offer and so does Amol. “On the set, he was a very unassuming actor, staying within himself. I wondered if he could perform the different layers of the character in different situations of the film but he did it so coolly. Whenever he was slipping slightly, I alerted him and he would pick up immediately to reach his excellence. He understands even the slightest gesture and reacts accordingly. He had to portray four different equations with four different characters including his father Sanjay Mishra, his boss girl Barkha Singh, an arrogant man in power Vijay Raaz and a kind old lady, Madhuri Bhatia. And he reacted to every character so brilliantly,” he raves.
