Screening of Netflix Web Series 'Music Teacher' at Sunny Super Sound Studio

Posted On: 30 April 2019

He’s done some stellar work over the last decade, but Manav Kaul shot into the spotlight as Vidya Balan’s supportive husband in the 2017 film Tumhari Sulu. Since then, the 42-year-old actor has largely marched to his own beat, making a mark in projects across mediums. This month alone, Manav has had two releases — Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai?, a modern retelling of the 1980 classic starring Naseeruddin Shah, that hit theatres on April 12, and Music Teacher that’s now streaming on Netflix. I am just blown by the kind of content that’s being made in India today. I saw Soni on Netflix and very recently, I watched Delhi Crime and I was shocked. The brilliance and the effort of the directors, writers, actors simply shine through in these projects. I was blown away by Shefali Shah in Delhi Crime… I have told everyone I know to drop everything and watch the show. The best thing is that the burden of Friday has been taken off, enabling creative people to make and say what they want. There’s a huge freedom that’s come in and that’s translating in the form of good content. We don’t give enough credit to our writers, but that’s slowly changing with everyone now looking for great scripts and good writers. You can’t pull off a web series of 10 episodes without a great script. My new film, Music Teacher, that’s currently streaming on Netflix, was a winner at Sundance (Film Festival), but needed a platform like Netflix to be shown to the world. Now people can watch it in 190 countries; if it had released in theatres, it would have struggled to get a wide release. I did Music Teacher almost for free because the idea was that a film like this needed to be made and that the world should see these stories.