Having seen the peak of success as a Television Actor & in the OTT Space (With shows like Asur & Married Woman) Dogra has handpicked this project as her debut vehicle because of the team behind it & the issue which the film is trying to magnify – the animal trade industry. She will be seen portraying a Crime Branch Officer in Kolkata & has some serious Action sequences for which she has already begun training & work-shopping with Anshuman (Attached Image).

“When you set out to do the kind of work you wish to do, it finds you. I am not the kind of an actor who will simply jump to be a part of a film, it has to be meaningful, the process has to have some purpose. Which is why I have chosen “Lakadbaggha” to be my feature film debut. I have always chosen to pick teams with depth over the superficial things which are important otherwise. The vibe, energy & passion is important. And from the first moment I saw Anshuman talk about the film, I knew I wanted to be a part of his process because there was passion, conviction & clarity. He, as an Actor is so involved, that I wanted to be a part of that world he was so passionately envisaging. The icing on the cake is that the script has a Humane point of you. I am thrilled & relieved because this is the kind of work I wish to do & the kind of team I want to collaborate with. Very rarely does one come across an Action film whose story, at its core, is Universal & has heart. And this character – A Catholic-Bengali Cop, a bad ass cop, in Kolkata, very evolved & righteous, yet loving & passionate. I may have played a forensic cop before but this is very different – she takes things head on, she is incharge. She is a woman in power vis-a-vis a woman who is part of the team in power & that excites me. This character has empowered me in a way – training for the Action with Vicky & Anshuman. Also this character kicks ass (literally). I’m really enjoying the workshops & am looking forward to collaborating with Anshuman & doing Action for the first time & doing justice to it.”

Anshuman, who was last seen as a homosexual man in “Hum Bhi Akele, Tum Bhi Akele” opposite Zareen Khan has been training for 4 months in Krav Maga & the film is expected to have raw, street-fight style Action.

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Although the specific beginnings of hand-painted Bollywood film poster craftsmanship are somewhat obscure, it is broadly accepted that the art form was brought into the world during the 1920s. The charming specialty of hand-painted Bollywood posters has voyaged far from that point forward – from filling in as the essential promoting medium in the golden era of Indian cinema to the current day, where it fills in as a subject of much interest for art lovers and galleries, historians, vintage and antique collectors, museums and many others. Similarly many novels back in the days featured quintessential artistry on their covers before stock photography and fonts took over most of them like we see today. Hence in the present world of the digital age and graphic design that we inhabit, seeing a hand-painted poster or cover art is an absolute rarity; which is why when director Alok Sharma decided to take the old-school route for the poster of his Anshuman Jha-Sanjay Mishra starrer short film ‘Bullet Proof Anand’, it met its audience with a refreshing change as well as a touch of nostalgia in it. The last time a Hindi film poster came close to a hand-painted one was Akshay Kumar’s ‘Rowdy Rathore’, but once again the poster was designed digitally. But in this case, Alok approached Shelle Mustajab – the supremely talented artist who has hand-painted Hindi crime novel covers for over 3 decades.

Alok tells us, “I was pretty sure I wanted the poster of this short to be hand-painted, as a homage to the Hindi crime novels of the 1970s. India’s very own Robert E McGinnis, Shelle Mustajab was the artist who painted these novel covers for over 3 decades – from Surendra Mohan Pathak to Ved Prakash Sharma, you name it. I travelled all the way to Shelle Sahab’s residence in Amroha, UP, convinced him to come out of retirement to create this poster for ‘Bulletproof Anand’ and he obliged. I hope this brings back the trend of hand-painted posters, an art long forgotten.”

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