EXCLUSIVE: 'It's dream role,' says Karan Tacker for his character Farooq in 'Special Ops'

Television actor Karan Tacker recently marked his digital debut with Hotstar's original Special Ops. series released on March 17 and is gaining critical appreciation from fans and critics alike. interesting plot twists of Special Ops had made audiences binge-watch series by keeping m hooked with storyline. In an exclusive interview with Republic World, Karan Tacker shared his experience of working with cast of Special Ops and overwhelming response.

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Karan Tacker's special ops experience

When asked about response of show without outdoor publicity, Karan Tacker said, "On digital, you start publishing show once it’s on app. People see hoarding and immediately want to go and watch it. Unfortunately, because of Corona, all 1200 hoardings in Bombay were dedicated to Corona, rightfully so. We were ( Special Ops team) disappointed because our entire marketing plan went for a toss. We were supposed to visit 8 cities to promote show, we couldn’t do that eir."

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He furr added, ''It was really demoralising but it been very rewarding fact that regardless of all of that, show has done exceptionally well and accepted beautifully. It’s overwhelming to get a response from senior and legend actors, who are appreciating and talking about show. Generally, peers in our industry do t open up when y like someone’s work. But when people have gone out re and spoken about it, it’s been amazing."

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Furr, actor was asked about his experience of working with critically acclaimed actors such as Kay Kay Men, Divya Dutta, Sharad Kelkar, and Vinay Pathak. He said, "More than charm of working with great actors, charm was to work with a great script. We have a great ensemble cast of Kay Kay Men, Divya Dutta, Vinay Pathak, Sharad Kelkar. Unfortunately, I never shot with any of m as y were shooting in India and I was shooting internationally."

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As actors like Hrithik Roshan, Shatrughan Sinha and Anupam Kher among many ors appreciated performance of Special Ops, Karan was asked that who would he want to review his debut series, to which he said, "If you ask my desire, I want everyone to watch my show. All actors, my peers, seniors, everyone should watch show and enjoy it. But desire doesn’t end re. Most importantly I want people to watch it. We make it for fans, we make for audience, we make it for consumption of masses. I want those people to binge-watch entire series. Because those are real people we are making it for. Of course, appreciation from actors is unmatchable."

In furr conversation, Karan Tacker shared how he prepared for his character Farooq in Special Ops. He said, "I wanted to play Farooq only. charm of his character is a dream for any actor. I worked on variation and characterisation of Farooq. I had a small workshop with Neeraj sir to work on tonality and demarcations of Farooq. variation is best and most interesting thing about this character. I made small tes and wrote narratives for my scenes."