Neeraj Pandey on reuniting with Jimmy Sheirgill in ‘Sikandar Ka Muqaddar’: ‘A fantastic talent’
The heist thriller will be premiered on Netflix on November 29.
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Neeraj Pandey’s Sikandar Ka Muqaddar sees the director reuniting with Jimmy Sheirgill after A Wednesday! (2008), Special 26 (2013) and Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha (2024). In Pandey’s upcoming movie, Sheirgill plays a “tenacious cop who believes that he is never wrong about his instincts”, the writer-director told Scroll.
Sheirgill’s character Jaswinder is convinced about the three perpetrators behind a diamond heist that has taken place in Mumbai. For over a decade, Jaswinder stays hot on the trail of Sikandar (Avinash Tiwary), Kamini (Tamannaah Bhatia) and Mangesh (Rajeev Mehta), even though it appears that they might be innocent.
In particular, Jaswinder gets fixated on Sikandar – hence the title, which loosely means Sikandar’s Destiny. “That one basic thought – his instinct – leads him to a case where his entire life changes,” Pandey said about Jaswinder. “The lives of the persons whom he suspects change, and the people around them change too. Jaswinder is completely obsessed with this particular case and this suspect, and he believes his instinct can’t be wrong. He gives the case his all and ends up destroying himself.”
Sikandar Ka Muqaddar will be premiered on Netflix on November 29. Sheirgill was a shoo-in for the lead role, given Pandey’s comfort with the actor. They had met before Pandey made his...
