Saqib Saleem on playing a secret agent in Crackdown, and shooting during pandemic for Comedy Couple

After some hits and some misses, Saqib Saleem’s career has taken an interesting turn as he gets to transform from a lover boy to an action hero. One had to really push themselves to achieve something that people can talk about.” The eight-episode series, now streaming on Voot Select, also stars Shriya Pilgaonkar, Waluscha De Sousa, and Iqbal Khan, and is directed by Lakhia, the man behind high-octane Bollywood action dramas like Shootout at Lokhandwala and Ek Ajnabee. “But after that, there has been a conscious effort to get back to work,” says the actor who shot Comedy Couple, a rom-com during the lockdown, which is his next release. He may be a bit disheartened with the film getting postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic but Saleem, who will be seen playing the role of former India cricketer Mohinder Amarnath, feels he has fulfilled his childhood dream of “playing cricket for the nation” by acting in the project. Shooting for a film which was celebrating India’s first big cricketing victory, and to be playing Mohinder Amarnath, who was one of the chief architects of that victory, was a very happy feeling,” he says.