Prime Video’s Name Me Bae not solely marks the sequence debut of Ananya Panday, but in addition the primary time that she performs a comedic function.
The Hindi-language sequence follows Bae (performed by Panday), a heiress whose luxurious life rapidly turns into upended. She then goes on a journey in Mumbai to carve out a brand new life for herself, discovering work as a journalist.
Panday knew she needed to be a part of Name Me Bae from the get-go. “Once I bought the script, I learn all eight episodes in a single night time,” Panday advised Deadline. “I fully binged on the script and knew that I needed to be part of this as a result of I really like the journey with the character. She begins from a sure level after which results in a very completely different place, however the core of her stays the identical. It’s very simple to place a personality like this in a field and stereotype her as a ditzy lady or an airhead, however there was a lot humanity in her and I cherished the problem of bringing that out.”
Panday stated that one other thrilling a part of Name Me Bae was taking up her first comedic function. “I’ve been a part of comedy movies earlier than the place the opposite actors are producing the comedy, and I’m simply somebody who’s reacting to it,” Panday stated. “However with this present, I bought to discover my comedian timing and bodily comedy, which I’ve by no means accomplished earlier than. It was additionally one in all my largest challenges. Once you’re taking pictures a comedy, you actually don’t know if the joke is touchdown as a result of everybody on set has already heard the jokes earlier than, so not everybody’s laughing. You need to sort of measure it your self, like — is that this humorous? Is that this not humorous?”
Name Me Bae additionally stars Vir Das, Gurfateh Pirzada, Varun Sood, Vihaan Samat, Muskkaan Jaferi, Niharika Lyra Dutt, Lisa Mishra, and Mini Mathur.
Whereas the forged didn’t have a lot time collectively earlier than the shoot, Panday stated that this ended up having a constructive influence on their performances. “Once we got here on set, all the things we had been doing, we had been additionally naturally reacting to one another. Retaining issues spontaneous and improvising helped quite a bit.”
After six years appearing in movies like Kho Gaye Hum Kahan and Dream Woman 2, Panday stated that there are lots of different genres she wish to strive appearing in, to develop in her craft. “I haven’t explored horror, and have additionally by no means performed a real-life character or accomplished a biopic. I’ve by no means needed to examine an actual individual, which might be a lot enjoyable and so fascinating,” Panday added.
Name Me Bae is written by Ishita Moitra, Samina Motlekar and Rohit Nair, with Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta and Somen Mishra onboard as govt producers for Dharmatic Leisure.
