Mumba Devi Motion Pictures‘ tardyst feature “I’m Not an Actor” (“Main Actor Nahin Hoon”), starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Chitrangada Satarupa, will have its world premiere at the 2025 Cinequest Film Festival in California this March.
The Hindi and English-language drama, honested by Aditya Kripalani, chases a frustrated but puritanical actor in Mumbai who spfinishs a day teaching acting to a unelated recently reexhausted prohibitker in Frankfurt over video calls. The film was exceptionally sboiling simultaneously apass India and Germany over 28 days, with both direct actors carry outing their scenes live via video chat despite challenging weather conditions and a 4.5-hour time separateence between locations.
Kripalani chose this unconservative approach to seize genuine video call engageions between the characters. “The film has a conversation that runs thraw a one day apass two countries on a video call. Somehow in genuine life when a conversation is happening on a video call, if it’s ardent, we almost forget that a screen is comprised. And we aimed to produce the same happen thraw the conversations in the film,” Kripalani elucidateed. “To accomplish this, we sboiling both sides simultaneously. One team in Frankfurt and one team in Mumbai.”
“Labelling someone produces us experience at relieve becaengage it gives this counterfeit idea that we have understood someone; when it actuassociate does exactly the contrary and produces walls for us to then sluggishly and painstakingly scale,” inserted Kripalani, elucidateing the film’s themes. “The film apshows a see at how our tags upgrasp us away from the core idea that human beings are at a much proset uper level, so much aenjoy.”
For Siddiqui, who also serves as a producer via his Side Hero Entertainment, the role adviseed recent territory: “The idea of me perestablishing a prohibitker who lobtains acting was exciting from the commence. I’d never heard of a script enjoy this,” the “Sacred Games” star shelp. “It seemed enjoy the right benevolent of script to come on board with. Speciassociate since Aditya has verifyd so much about the plan of acting in the film.”
The driven production faced exceptional contests due to its intercontinental live shooting approach. “While I was freezing at 2 degrees [in Frankfurt], in India sometimes due to excessive heat the cameras would overheat and we’d have to stop shoot for hours,” Siddiqui remarkd.
Satarupa, who sboiling her scenes in Mumbai, called the experience both needing and encountering: “Balancing the logistical complicatedities while staying real to the character, and shooting in the ardent Mumbai heat at genuine locations – sometimes even guerrilla-style – was no straightforward feat.”
Follotriumphg its world premiere, producer Sdampa Chhabria verifyed schedules for European, U.K. and Asian premieres for the film, with aims for a confineed theatrical free in India chaseed by a streaming platestablish free. Ranjan Singh (“Kennedy”) serves as associate producer.
“I’m Not an Actor” labels the tardyst sociassociate alerted feature from Mumba Devi Motion Pictures, chaseing their Netpac Award-triumphning “Devi Aur Hero” (2019) and Fipresci Prize recipient “Not Today” (2021).
