Karan Tacker: I did mental prep for a terrace scene in ‘Special Ops’ as I have height phobia

‘Special 26’ director Neeraj Pandey came with a web series ‘Special Ops’ that is quite meandering. It is a fictional eight-episode series about a two-decade-long manhunt to catch the mastermind behind the 2001 Parliament blasts. Karan Tacker has made his digital debut with the series and what can be better debut than this. Karan is playing a RAW agent Farooq Ali. The actor went through a lot of challenges and difficulties while shooting but he came out with flying colours doing full justice to his character.

We have never seen Karan in this avatar before. When I asked him how he prepared for his character, Karan said, “Working on the psychology of Farooq Ali was more important than working on me for a RAW agent. I got into height experience for Farooq Ali and that really came from the script that was written by Neeraj Pandey, Deepak Kingrani and Benazir Ali Fida. I kept the script as my Bible and that really helped me to understand my character. As my character has an arc of nine to ten years, physically, I had to work on my weight and body language.”

On talking about a difficult situation he went through, was his phobia of height. “There is a scene when I am supposed to be on the top of a building terrace. I was on the 25th floor and standing on the ledge took a lot of mental prep as I have an extreme phobia of height. I wanted to do the stunt by myself rather than going for body double as I wanted it to look real. That was really hard for me. But in general, the toughest part was shooting in Jordan that was extremely cold. We had to dress up like we are in summers but we were shooting in 1 to 6 degrees.”

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Karan also shared his experience of working with Neeraj Pandey. He said, “Neeraj Sir is always known for his realistic movies. That is exactly the kind of work I always wanted to do because my understanding of acting is that at no given point you should look like you are acting and that’s his general treatment towards cinema. He writes material, so he has answers to everything and that becomes really interesting.”

‘Special Ops’ started streaming on Hotstar from March 17.

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