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Gopal Datt in the fore in a scene from The Office; he plays an annoying swadeshi, who loves wrestling.Playing a character like Triveni Prashad Mishra, an over-enthusiastic paper salesman, was a first for actor Gopal Datt. The actor, who has been around in the Mumbai film industry for about two decades, had never come across someone as annoying as TP Mishra. “ TP — as he is addressed in the show — is so annoying. He operates on his own logic and moral compass that is contradictory to his colleagues and even society at large. Mishraji ek mishran hain, he has all the quirks that you would have seen in your colleagues around you,” says Datt.
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The Office is a 13-part web series, and is an official remake of The Office (US).
TP Mishra is based on Dwight Schrute, a paper salesman, who takes his German ancestors very seriously and is paranoid of technology and most things urban. Here at The Office, which is set in Faridabad, Mishra is a firm believer in swadeshi, speaks chaste Hindi and has an admirable dedication towards wrestling.
Datt, who grew up in Nainital, never thought of cinema or acting. “Sure, I liked films, but the sole access I had was of those aired on Doordarshan on weekends. On and off, I went to the rehearsals of a local theatre group Yugmanch. They were very good back then and even today they produce decent plays. An actor in the group was absent one day and they asked me to read a part. And somehow I got hooked,” says Datt, who is a National School of Drama graduate. He was there from 1996 to 1999.
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NSD was a turning point for him, as it opened Datt to the nerve centre of Indian theatre. “I got to act in plays by Nirmal Pandey and Ankur ji. My classmates were people like Neeraj Sood and Heeba Shah. Doing theatre is like putting oneself in a laboratory where you conduct experiments on yourself,” he says.
Datt made his debut in Bollywood in 2001, with Mujhe Kuch Kehna Hai, and then followed it up wRead More – Source
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