Actor Kumud Mishra speaks about stepping out of his comfort zone for Anubhav Sinha’s next directorial venture, Assi, a role he initially resisted but ultimately embraced.

There won’t be an Anubhav Sinha project that Mishra would want to refuse. Yet the director never takes their equation for granted, always sending him the script and asking which part he would like to play. With Assi, Mishra picked a role for himself, but Sinha had other plans. “But he had something else in his mind for me. He gave me a character that I felt was not for me at all. I thought it belonged to someone else. But he said, ‘Aap karenge aur uske liye aapko tayyar hona hoga’.”