Why Nawazuddin Siddiqui didn`t read Serious Men the novel

By - IANS

OCTOBER 08,2020

Nawazuddin Siddiqui is being universally applauded for his role in the new Sudhir Mishra directorial, Serious Men, but the actor surprises you by saying he has not read the book on which the film is based on.Mishra39s film is an adaptation of Manu Joseph39s book of the same name. It narrates the tale of an underachiever who tries to make it big in Mumbai after discovering that his child could be a boy genius."It was a beautiful narration with scriptwriter Bhavesh Mandalia and Sudhir sir, but what I hadn39t realised at the time was that it is also a novel by the renowned Manu Joseph. Right then, I decided to start reading it but as you know, my command over the English language isn39t very strong," Nawazuddin said. "So I sat with a dictionary and completed three pages in two hours and then just gave up! The script was my saviour throughout the shoot," he added. The Netflix film also features Aakshath Das, Shweta Basu Prasad and Nassar, and introduces Indira Tiwari.