Amazing! “Because it came to us, and I am directing the film, I have to put in what Archie meant to me...” – Zoya Akhtar on living up to the audience’s imagination about The Archies

MUMBAI: An adaptation of the popular comic book series, The Archies has kept the audience hooked as they are all excited to watch the OTT movie. The film marks the acting debut of Gauri Khan and Shah Rukh Khan's daughter Suhana Khan, producer Boney Kapoor and late Sridevi's daughter Khushi Kapoor, and Agastya Nanda, who is the grandson of veteran actors Jaya Bachchan and Amitabh Bachchan.

The movie also features Mihir Ahuja, Vedang Raina, Aditi ‘Dot’ Saigal and Yuvraj Menda. Together, the seven actors play the famous gang of teenagers from the comics.

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Helmed by Zoya, The Archies will release on Netflix on December 7. The story follows the life of popular fictional characters – Archie (Agastya), Betty (Khushi), Veronica (Suhana), Jughead (Mihir Ahuja), Reggie (Vedang Raina), Ethel (Dot) and Dilton (Yuvraj Menda).

They navigate romance and friendship in the 1960s as they come together for the future of their town, Riverdale, when developers threaten to destroy a beloved park.

The gang of Archies has been the talk of town lately as they are strongly promoting their movie and are being appreciated for their style statement and the energy that they are carrying in order to promote their movie.

The movie is finally available to stream on Netflix and the audience has given mixed to positive reviews to the movie.

In an interaction with a media portal, Zoya Akhtar talked about living up to the audience’s imagination, managing an ensemble cast and much more.

Did you feel at any point it was difficult to live up to the audience’s imagination?

Because it came to us, and I am directing the film, I have to put in what Archie meant to me and every time I opened up that comic book, when I was 10 years old or 12 years old, I was transported to this fictional magical place called Riverdale where everything just worked, everything was pretty and everyone was fun. I wanted that ‘idealic’ feeling that is what it meant to me. What it meant to me, I wanted to take that and put that out.

You had mentioned earlier that less is more. With more than one brain working, does it become difficult to maintain the less is more? Does it get imbalanced?

No, I think both us (Including Reema Kagti) and Ayesha DeVitre, who has written the script with us, were all on the same page. It was a simpler time, it was an innocent time, it was a slower time. Less is more, things are hectic today but then the people seemed to be happier. So I think we were all aligned on that.

How do you manage an ensemble cast, the backstory, and the context?

We really layer our writing. Actually we have love for our characters. We have love for the genres, and for the ensemble stories. Like Reema said that sometimes there are multiple themes and you need more than one person to cover that gamete.

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