EXCLUSIVE: Four More Shots Please Actor Ankur Rathee Says He Laughs At The Absurdity Of How Intimate Scenes Are Shot

Ankur Rathee has become quite a familiar face in the OTT space. He has been part of umpteen web series be it Four More Shots Please, Made In Heaven, The Tashkent Files, Mission Over Mars, so on and so forth. Currently, he is also shooting for the ongoing Bejoy Nambiar film Taish, an under-production film which we had exclusively reported about earlier.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to state that web shows have always used ‘intimacy’ as one of the main ingredients to sell the content. The actor has done a lot of intimate scenes in these web shows.

This Princeton graduate is still trying to find his ground in Bollywood and his effort is surely seen. But one can’t really simply abrogate the experience one gains while one is actually doing the job. Shooting intimate scenes at times becomes tremendously uncomfortable which is why many actors and actresses choose not to because they don’t really want to be considered borderline crass - but not all content is crass. Period. Having said that, it also has got to do a lot with the psychology and the mentality of who is watching the content and what does he or she want to watch.

Rathee got candid about his experience while shooting intimate scenes. "The most awkward part of shooting an intimate scene, ironically, is when you’re in between takes, waiting for the camera department to make adjustments. I personally like to laugh at the absurdity of it all," quipped he.

He went on to elaborate on the shooting styles of such scenes stating that there is a very specific way in which the final take is okayed on camera. “These types of scenes look titillating on camera, but shooting them is far from it. Intimacy on camera is choreographed. Like a dance sequence almost. So, the act of engaging in intimacy, which is primal and spontaneous, needs to be tamed and curated for film, but still, look sensuous and unpredictable.”

Rathee takes shooting such sequences with a pinch of salt. He further revealed that in reality, he is just doing what he gets paid for. “My job is to depict real-life people, doing real-life things, which includes being intimate. My job is to make you believe you’ve witnessed a very intimate moment when the reality, as you can see, is quite the opposite.” He contends.