Dibakar Banerjee considers Jaideep Ahlawat an ‘absolute revelation’ in B-Town. After Raazi (2018) and Paatal Lok (2020), the actor will showcase his acting chops in Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar. He plays a cop in Banerjee’s upcoming thriller. 

Banerjee does not see him as a villain, or as a tough character, but as a ‘good actor’. Dibakar says, “I remember fighting a very, very tough fight with my producing partner on some film. I was absolutely adamant on casting Jaideep in that role because it was completely villainous. It was completely against anything that Jaideep was or had done till that time and I had done that because I know Jaideep as an actor and I think we will be committing a big mistake if we sort of confined Jaideep to dark and underground and that kind of character types that you can think of.”