“Let me tell you a secret,” actor J D Chakravarthy reiterates through the conversation when we speak in the context of his recent Telugu web series Dayaa, which has fetched him and the team an overwhelming response. Streaming on Disney+ Hotstar, the series directed by Pavan Sadineni features the actor as a freezer van driver who gets caught in a murky web of crime and politics.
The ‘secrets’ are brief revelations the actor keeps sharing about the series, his past films and approach to work. Before we get to it, he asserts that he had believed all along that Dayaa would score big and feels vindicated with all the appreciation. “We actors have a boon. You can call it intuition. When we step into a set and give the first shot, we know if things are working. People call me an arrogant actor because, if I sense something is not right, I will not hesitate to tell the director or producer. With Dayaa, I knew from day one that we were on to something big.”
