India, Sept. 6 -- Continued from p01 Which of your roles is closest to your heart, discounting their commercial success? I'll be the last person to keep the commercial thing in mind. Very few films of mine have been theatrical hits (laughs). My own personal favourites are Gali Guleiyan (2017; Prime Video) and Budhia Singh (2016; Netflix). Of all the cop roles, Inspector Zende is the most chilled out and realistic. And Jugnuma; I've spent seven years on this film, and it is now about to release. It started filming before lockdown, and when we went back, the Delta variant of Covid hit. Somehow, we completed the film. It had a great festival run. That film is very close to me, like Inspector Zende. Inspector Zende is a celebrated police officer in Maharashtra for some impossible tasks he accomplished, but the rest of India doesn't really know him. (Producer) Om Raut's father always wanted a film on him because he caught an international criminal. But as we researched, we realised his story couldn't be told as a grim film because he's such a chilled-out man. I've been told he never fired his pistol, yet solved incredible cases - releasing trapped police officers, rescuing people from the mafia. His life deserved this tribute. Nobody is trying to create a comedy here. But everything that will happen will compel you to laugh. Zende was a regular 48 or 49-year-old middle-class man with a team of lower-middle-class policemen. Before their Goa mission, nobody had ever been on a flight. In Goa, they had to blend in but the team doesn't even have money, so they took an accountant to track expenses. That leads to a very comic thriller. None of us is trying to be funny, but the way things unfolded is very funny....