Kareena Kapoor Khan On Her Gritty Role In ‘Suspect X’; Making Her Streaming Debut & Upcoming UK-Set Feature
21.09.2023 - 10:11
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: One of the leading actresses in the Hindi film industry, Kareena Kapoor Khan is making her streaming debut in Netflix original film Suspect X, an adaptation of Japanese author Keigo Higashino’s The Devotion Of Suspect X which launches worldwide on the streaming service today (September 21).
Directed by Sujoy Ghosh, the film also stars Jaideep Ahlawat and Vijay Varma and is produced by 12th Street Entertainment and Northern Lights Films in association with Kross Pictures and Balaji Motion Pictures. Higashino’s novel has previously been adapted into Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Tamil versions.
Kapoor Khan plays a very different character to the glamorous Bollywood roles that we’ve previously seen her in. Dressed down and without make-up, her character Maya is a woman living peacefully with her daughter in a remote town, until her abusive husband finds her.
Her neighbor, a talented mathematician who has a crush on her, uses the power of logic to help her out of an unusual predicament following the husband’s reappearance, while also avoiding the attentions of a visiting cop.
Confessing a personal love of crime thrillers, especially adaptations of Harlan Goben novels, Kapoor Khan says she decided to take on the role because it gave her the chance to experiment: “I’ve always thought that for my debut on a streaming platform, I should try to do something that is slightly different to what I’ve done on the big screen,” she tells Deadline.
“Audiences are used to seeing me in the typical Indian song-and-dance style movies. But with the changes in cinema and the emergence of OTT platforms, content has become so different, and so actors are exploring a lot more.”
She adds that she’d also been looking for a project