Headlining Netflix’s ‘Namma Stories – The South Anthem’ and contributing to the Malayalam parts meant that Neeraj Madhav had arrived. It proved that his outing as Moosa in The Family Man [Amazon Prime] was not a fluke. The actor/hip-hop artist represented Kerala in ‘Namma Stories’ that was designed to woo South Indian viewers. So when Feels Like Ishq drops on Netflix on July 23, will probably be the cherry on the cake for the actor.
Feels Like Ishq includes six brief movies directed by Tahira Kashyap Khurrana, Ruchir Arun, Devrath Sagar, Sachin Kundalkar, Anand Tiwari and Danish Aslam.
Neeraj seems within the brief ‘The Interview’ the place performs a Malayali, Rajeev, showing for a job interview in Mumbai. He says, “It is about what happens when he finds himself in a new environment, the language problem and the woman he meets.” His ease with Hindi is unmissable. The work he did on sprucing his Hindi talking for The Family Man has paid off. “It was sync sound, so I had to deliver the dialogues live. It was alright since I have previous ‘experience’ with Hindi.”
When The Family Man dropped in 2019, it was a leap of religion for him. He couldn’t decide to Malayalam movies for nearly a 12 months until the sequence was performed. His being away, filming the sequence, gave rise to speak that he was not getting work. However, the danger paid off. Offers had been coming to him method submit The Family Man; a few initiatives he had dedicated bought pushed again as a result of pandemic. Mumbai-based casting firms had been in contact with him through the years and that’s how he landed the Netflix present. The director of his phase, Sachin Kundalkar, met and narrated the story to him, which he favored and agreed to be a part of.
He might be one in every of Malayalam cinema’s solely exports to the medium [OTT] who has made an affect.
When Neeraj turns NJ
Despite lockdown Neeraj has been busy this previous 12 months and a half. He has reinvented himself as a hip-hop artist, NJ. His viral rap quantity Panipaali… launched him as a musician; he adopted that up with a couple of different songs. Well-known as a dancer, he has confirmed he can sing too.
“I have always been interested in hip-hop. I am constantly on the lookout to trying new things and growing as an artist. I thought why not try something that I haven’t tried before [hip-hop]. I was not expecting to make money out of it, it was more about doing my own thing.” Experimenting with OTT too was his method of actually stepping out of his consolation zone and attempting one thing new.
It isn’t all OTT and music for him; he is because of begin filming a few Malayalam initiatives. There are a couple of within the offing in different languages, which he can’t reveal now.
The reinvention has been as acutely aware because it has been serendipitous. Right from his first performing job, it has been a relentless hustle the place he has pushed himself continually. When he turned to YouTube, he bought his share of jibes on turning ‘Youtuber’. “I wanted to try it. It is a constant attempt to try something new, that has been my approach to life and career. Besides, I believe it is never too late to try something new.”
He refuses all labels besides that of an artist. “I believe I should not have to confine myself.”
