Hiccups and Hookups interview: Lara Dutta, Kunal Kohli and Prateik Babbar on sex, casual relations and more

Lara Dutta’s Bollywood comeback this year Bell Bottom caught the eye of viewers with her transformation as former India’s Prime Minister, the late Indira Gandhi. And the actress will once again surprise the viewers with her playing a 40-plus single woman looking for casual relationship in the new show, Hiccups and Hookups. When the show director Kunal Kohli approached Dutta, he told her that he wants to make the story of a 40-plus single mother looking for dating again and the actress jumped at the opportunity which she feels most mainstream actresses would never attempt. It is like Yashji telling Amitabh Bachchan in that scene in Deewar where the actor is ‘talking’ to ‘god’, ‘Don’t move too much, stand in one place and speak…’ So I just let them fly,” says Kohli. Besides Lara Dutta, Prateik Babbar and Shinnova in lead roles, the show which is Lionsgate Play’s first original series, features Divya Seth, Nassar Abdullah, Khalid Siddiqui, Meiyang Chang, Meera Chopra and Ayn Zoya.