After Telugu indie ‘Cinema Bandi’, actor Raag Mayur relies on ‘Modern Love Hyderabad’ to open new doors in the film industry
After Telugu indie ‘Cinema Bandi’, actor Raag Mayur relies on ‘Modern Love Hyderabad’ to open new doors in the film industry
“It takes a Friday for people to notice you. cinema bandi I got that recognition though as originally planned the film was an OTT release instead of a theatrical one,” says actor Raag Mayur. The 2021 Telugu comedy directed by Praveen Kandregula stars Mayur as Nai Maridesh Babu, an ignorant rural youth who aspires to become a star. a year later cinema bandiPeacock portrays an urban character in the anthology series Modern Love HyderabadStreaming on Amazon Prime Video.
The story titled Peacock contains finding your penguin Directed by Venkatesh Maha, starring Komali Prasad. finding your penguin An unusual story of a young woman, a microbiologist, equates her search for the ideal male to animal dating patterns. A series of funny encounters follow and one of them is the male Tarun, the character played by Mayur, whom she later describes as very boring and perfect, like a typical Telugu film hero!
Mayur recalls that acting in a short story was very different from that experience cinema bandi, There used to be scope for improvisation on the sets of cinema bandiWhereas Maha likes to plan out minute details.”
The five-day workshop introduced Mayur to Maha’s style of work: “His attention to detail was mesmerizing. He was very clear about each character’s body language and diction. In addition, he also noticed things like the mobile phone covers of the heroine’s friends. The workshop helped me understand my character, Tarun better. ,
Post cinema bandi, Mayur says he was infatuated with similar rural comedy and chose to wait until he found something different: “It was disappointing but I knew I had to wait for it. Once you’re typecast, it can be extremely hard to break free of it. Fortunately, Maha saw me differently and suggested my name for the compilation. I was also lucky that I got selected without audition. ,
After completing his engineering studies from Osmania University, Peacock went on to pursue a master’s degree in the United States. However, like many other computer science engineering graduates in Hyderabad, his interest in cinema got the better of him and after returning to India and taking a job in Bengaluru, he enrolled in theater workshops to learn acting and directing: “Whatever I do Also know about acting today, I am grateful for my experience doing it with Little Theater in Bengaluru and Adishakti Laboratory for Theater Art Research in Auroville, Pondicherry. It opened up my perspective and helped me not to limit myself to one box. ,
Mayur worked with director Tharun Bhaskar for an ad film and in director Vivek Athreya’s debut film “Blink-and-Miss” part, mental illness, Post Modern Love HyderabadHe is looking forward to a web series that he has completed, and a new feature film that he has signed, details of which are yet to be formally announced by the respective production house: “Till now my life before and after can be divided into. cinema bandi, It has taken time to focus on this, but I am sure that I will have more interesting works ahead of me. I want to try and be like Rajkummar Rao, who is playing a variety of characters. ,