Bard of Blood's Vineet Kumar on playing an undercover agent in Balochistan, and how he trained for the role

I keep looking for Viineet Kumar before realising the Mukkabaaz actor is already seated in front of me, ready for our interview on the sets of Netflix’s India Original Bard of Blood. In the seven-episode spy drama based on Bilal Siddiqui’s 2015 book of the same name, Viineet plays Veer, a RAW intelligence officer who was sent on a covert mission in Balochistan years ago, only to be forgotten by the agency. However, having operated alone without anyone’s orders in the past few years, Viineet points out his character is not a team player. Unlike Emraan and Sobhita’s characters, the audience never gets to see Viineet’s character in his original avatar, presumably when he is operating on his home turf, or in his pind in Punjab.