“Asim, you’re not letting me ask any questions,” I say, side-stepping the cow dung at my feet, and the conversation awkwardly pauses. “Because…” I continue, “You’re answering every question I have, without me even asking them.”
Asim Abbasi, hundreds of miles away, free from electricity shutdowns in his home in London, laughs a little. “I don’t know if that’s a good thing.” It definitely is, I assure him, half-stepping into a puddle.
My conversation with Asim is the second last pit-stop in a three-day-long talking spree. Parched throats, depleted thoughts and looping answers aside, the combined recording time from four leading ladies, the director and high-ranking executives on both sides of the Indo-Pak border, exceeds six hours by the time I cut Asim’s call. Just thinking about the amount of information I would have to sift through triggers a throbbing headache.
Still, Asim Abbasi’s new project — a 10-episode web series produced by Zee5, under its re-launched Zindagi moniker, and sensationally titled Churails (Witches) — may very well be worth the trouble … and an exercise in patience.
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