The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case, directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, is now available to stream on OTT. It is a gripping police procedural based on the book Ninety Days by Anirudhya Mitra. In this exclusive chat, Kukunoor is joined by his ensemble cast—Amit Sial (as D.R. Kaarthikeyan, Chief of SIT), Sahil Vaid (as Amit Verma, SP-CBI), Bhagavathi Perumal (as Ragothaman, DSP-CBI), Danish Iqbal (as Amod Kanth, DIG-CBI), Girish Sharma (as Radhavinod Raju, DIG-CBI), and Vidyut Garg (as Capt. Ravindran, NSG Commando), as they unpack the emotional, technical, and ethical challenges of portraying real-life officers.
While the series steers clear of political narratives and focuses instead on meticulous police work, the cast reveals how they prepared for their roles. Sial worked hard to strike the right balance with a South Indian accent, Sahil Vaid confidently tackled Tamil dialogues despite being a non-Tamil speaker, and Vidyut Garg, playing an armed forces officer for the first time, drew inspiration from his grandfather’s Air Force background.