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‘I’M NOT IN ANY RACE’

ot everybody will like Jayant, the character Rajkummar Rao plays in the Netflix film (releasing on November 11). Neither is he the idealistic Shahid or Newton whom audiences rooted for, nor is he the lovable fool of (2017) and (2018), someone who charmed our hearts. Jayant is, in Rao’s words, an “opportunist” and a “victim of circumstances”. Life pushes him onto an immoral path, one laden with dead bodies, diabolical characters, and, strangely, snakes and robots. It is to Rao’s credit that he brings

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