“It was beti Ananya’s idea to get Ganesha at home,” discloses Chunky Pandey whose deadly villain’s role in Abhay-2 is more scary than the killer-virus

 Chaitanya  Padukone 

Senior yet evergreen Bollywood lead actor-turned-wacko funster-turned-villain Chunky ( Suyash) Pandey is on a euphoric divine-bliss  trip ever since he starting getting Ganesha at home . These days he wears a new  salt’n’ pepper grey-haired, bearded debonair look supposedly for an upcoming new assignment-role. “ People are comparing me with  the Hollywood hero George Clooney,” quips the witty ‘Aankhen’ hero.  Informs  the style-savvy Pandey, “ Actually it was Ananya’s idea and wish, that we have been getting Ganesha icon home since past three years. In the previous two years, either I was on location-shoot or Ananya would be out-of-town. But this time, maybe thanks to corona,  both of us were present at home for the Ganesha aarti and puja ( one-and-a-half-day) so was my wife Bhavna and younger daughter Rysa,” discloses Chunky. 

The ‘ Aakhri Pasta’  funny-man is maha-thrilled with the terrific response he has been getting for his sadistic, deadly role of a sadistic criminal in this streaming ZEE5 original Abhay-2  OTT web-series directed by Ken Ghosh . “ The fabulous response to our streaming slick crime-thriller Abhay-02 and to my sinister two-faced crazy killer character who operates with  a rotating round saw-blade is so overwhelming which was evident as soon as the trailer had dropped. In fact some people jibed that the spine-chilling  ‘circular saw’ seemed more scarier than the corona killer virus,” chuckles Chunky who looks different (‘unrecognizable’) as  three-dimensional ‘Harsh’ is an ordinary ‘aam aadmi’  by day, family man by evening and ruthless serial-killer by night. 

Along with Kunal Kemmu, the second season has an ensemble cast consisting of Ram Kapoor as the super-villain; Asha Negi, Nidhi Singh opposite Kunal Kemmu; Chunky Pandey, Bidita Bag, Raghav Juval, Indraneil Sengupta and Asheema Vardhan in a never seen before villainous avatar. Meanwhile ‘Abhay-2’ director Ken Ghosh says, “The second season has multiple-layers and each episode is sure to induce chills as it is more gruesome than the previous one and also inspired from true events. Every actor has done great justice to their roles and I bet that some of you may not even recognize them, that’s how involved they were with every nuance of their character,”