Vishak Nair still cannot believe that he is essaying the role of Sanjay Gandhi. But he is, in Emergency, written and directed by Kangana Ranaut, which revolves around the Emergency period, considered one of the darkest phases in independent India’s history.
Kangana plays Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the movie, while Vishak plays Sanjay. “She (Kangana) was confident that I could pull off the character. I don’t know why and how,” says Vishak, over the phone from Bengaluru. Releasing the first look of his character, Kangana had stated: “I looked for a face for more than six months and I decided to launch him as the face.”
Vishak, who made his debut in the Malayalam movie Aanandam (2016) as the affable character ‘Kuppi’, has already worked with Kangana in Tejas, which has not been released yet. His first release in Hindi was Shabaash Mithu (2022), biopic of cricketer Mithali Raj, with Taapsee Pannu in the lead.
