Akshay Oberoi Is Enjoying  The Lockdown

Actor  Akshay Oberoi last seen  in the successful webseries  The  Inside Edge and  currently wooing the waves with  the web series Ilegal is happy to get  time  at home .

Says  Akshay , “I was working like a beast before this lockdown. I did 7 projects back to back. It’s nice to be at home,  to be  very honest.I don’t really have any  anxiety about being confined  at home for so long. I think my years of struggling as an actor has taught me to be incredibly patient.”

So how is Akshay spending his  time? “With my 3 yr old avyaan! Cooking. Cleaning. Gardening!”

Does Akshay see  the coronavirus  as  the end  of  the  road  for  the bigscreen’s supremacy?  “No. Cinema will come back. I mean to shoot stuff we still have to get hundreds of people in a room together. So that would also means audiences will return to theatres if we are able to shoot.”

Akshay  has a slew of projects  lined up on the web.  “Flesh is produced by Siddharth Anand  who directed  War . I play a flesh trade owner. Relished the hell of this part. My character  is an out and out baddie.  Then  I have Magic which is about a druggy who overdoses.goes to rehab and discovers his own drug which he starts to make and sell. It is directed by Nikhil Rao who is a very known ad filmmaker.  I also have  Inside Edge season 3 which is what is. As you already know. The there  is  Ktina  a rom-com produced by Ekta kapoor  starring Disha Patani  and I am the romantic interest.”

Akshay  is  also  doing  a feature film with  Richa Chadha. “Madam Chief Minister  is about politics I play a politician. Directed by Subhash Kapoor.And in  the  Hindi  remake  of  Thirruttu  Payale  I play the villian. Vineet plays the hero.Urvashi is in between our two characters. It’s a villain and hero cat and mouse chase.”