After years of hustling, actor Abhishek Banerjee is finally getting the recognition he deserves. After giving solid performances in 'Mirzapur' and 'Paatal Lok', the actor is now set to impress in soon to be released film 'Rashmi Rocket'. Although Abhishek is popular for his cold and psychopathic characters, his role in 'Rashmi Rocket' is going to be entirely different. This time he got to play a flamboyant lawyer and recently he talked about how he prepared for the part.

Abhishek said, “I wanted to go to courtrooms to see the proceedings, but unfortunately I couldn’t because of lockdown as courts were not functioning or functioning at 50% capacity or no public was allowed at all. However, I asked my lawyer friends for help. One of my very good lawyer friends is a senior advocate and runs his own company. I spoke to him and he told me about a lawyer’s life and I kept observing him also, how he would easily jump from a normal subject to the legality of that subject and he told me about how some lawyers are quite a star in the courtroom and people go especially to listen to their proceedings!"

The actor further continued, "My friend also told me that lawyers have their own performance styles and they can alter their body language, voice and speech to entice and intrigue the Judge and that’s what I tried as well. I tried to create my own personality when I was in the courtroom and a completely different personality when I was outside the courtroom. Also, during the process I realised that lawyers are performers, they do shadow practice, they rehearse their lines, they do their research work exactly like how actors do. So, I had to find a fine balance between being rehearsed as Ishit but not look rehearsed as an actor. I enjoyed the process a lot, let’s see, how the audience reacts!”

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