Maamla Legal High: Naila Grewal on the real-life incidents that inspired Maamla Legal High: Feel like it can’t be real | Exclusive | Web Series News
Updated on April 1, 2024 at 07:57 PM IST
In an exclusive chat with Zoom, the actor talked about working as an ensemble in the courtroom and how the team worked to balance legal cases with comedic situations.
Naila Grewal on the real-life incidents that inspired Maamla Legal High: Feel like it can’t be real | Exclusive (Image credit: Netflix)
A month has passed since the premiere Maamla Legal Hai on Netflix. The comedy series he directed Ravi KishanAlso starring Anjum Batra, Nidi Bishti, Naila Grewal, Anant Joshi, Yashpal Sharma, and Brijendra Kala. Set in a fictional district court in Patparganj, the series depicts the madness that engulfs the lawyers working there. Grewal, who portrays newcomer Ananya Shroff to join the gang of lawmen, spoke about the success of the Netflix show, the pre-series workshops and how many cases. Maamla Legal Hai Real-life incidents have had an impact.
Naila Grewal on Maamla Legal Hai Borrowing from ‘Real Life’
The first episode Maamla Legal Hai It ends with newspaper clippings that show the audience the real-life incidents that “inspired” the series’ strange occurrences. This continues through all eight episodes. In an interview with Zoom, Grewal talked about the big reveal during the credits: “When you watch the episodes, you feel like this can’t be real? They’re just making it up for laughs. And then the news clips. Come and you’re hit with the hard reality that this is happening in our country. It’s reality, but it’s also funny.”
Crediting the show’s writers Kunal Aneja and Saurabh Khanna, Grewal revealed how they balance serious situations by introducing humor in other ways. Using the latest episode as an example, the actor said, “There’s a fine line between showing the case and also creating humor around other aspects of the case that happen. So the case itself isn’t funny, but the people around it, the incidents around it make it light and It makes it comical. So even though Shakti’s case is a serious, important case, it has a sense of humor. The writers really did that, not in an aggressive or heavy-handed way, but through satire. .”
Naila Grewal on the success of the show
Grewal reviewed all the positive responses for her character Ananya Shroff and Maamla Legal Hai He was filming the show from the performance. He said: “I think really people are drawn to the characters as much as they are drawn to the fantastic writing that the show has because there are so many little nuances hidden in the dialogue and I think that elevates the whole script, the episodes. and the show. I think that’s what people have really caught on to, other than a one or two liners here and there, which is on everyone’s lips.”
And while many of the comedic situations were already written into the script, Grewal agreed with his co-star Nidhi Bisht how pre-shoot workshops helped them flesh out the characters’ voices and locations. he explained [Director] Rahul [Pandey] It really gave us the freedom to explore. He said, “Okay, that’s the script, that’s about the situation, and now play with it.” We keep doing permutations and combinations and see what works. This is what really helped bring out the naturalness. ”
He added that the series was a pleasure to work on, saying: “It’s so situational that we’re trying to show the world that if everything was written to a T, it would look very choreographed and rehearsed. There’s a certain element that’s just left for us to play in that environment and see that comedy [come] out.”
