MUMBAI: If her cameos and appearances on chat shows are any indication, Farah Khan is a riot on screen. Understandably then, months after she faced the camera for Masaba Masaba, the choreographer-director has taken her place under the arc lights again for Shaad Ali's Indian adaptation of Call My Agent.
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Though she has not seen the original French workplace comedy, Khan says that all it took was a call from Ali for her to come on board. "I am doing the cameo only for Shaad. I have known him since he was Mani sir's [Ratnam] assistant in Dil Se [1998]; we sat on the train together while I choreographed Chhaiyya chhaiyya. We went on to work on many of Mani sir's movies. I remember we used to be the only Hindi-speaking people in a Tamil crew," she laughs as she walks down memory lane.
The adaptation — featuring Rajat Kapoor, Soni Razdan, Aahana Kumra and Ayush Mehra as four talent managers — will have real-life celebrities in each episode. While Khan played a snooty director in the Netflix show featuring Masaba and Neena Gupta, her role in the latest outing is closer to her off-screen avatar. "I play myself in this web series. The role reflects who I am, complete with my sarcastic one-liners. Sarika and Akshara Haasan shot for the episode with me." Whenever she is on set, one can be assured of her famous home-cooked biryani. "I had carried a big pot of mutton biryani; the team was thrilled," she laughs. Though originally planned as a two-day shoot, she wrapped up her portion within a day, and headed to the Bigg Boss shoot on Monday
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