Cop characters have turned larger-than-life in films, says Randeep Hooda
Mumbai, Actor Randeep Hooda says a lot of cop characters in films have become stereotypical and larger than life, while OTT platforms offer more realistic and layered exploration of such roles. Cop characters have turned larger-than-life in films, says Randeep Hooda Hooda returns as the titular cop in the second season of his crime thriller series “Inspector Avinash”. The show is directed by Neerraj Pathak of Sunny Deol-starrer “Bhaiaji Superhit” fame. Set in the volatile landscape of 1990s Uttar Pradesh, the new season raises the intensity as Inspector Avinash Mishra finds himself caught in a storm that is as personal as it is political. “A lot of our cop characters lately in films have been very caricature-ish, larger than life. That’s also a genre of movie… It’s somebody else’s expression of doing it. “But in the OTT space, we get more time to deal with other parts of the police officer’s life or anybody’s life in terms of his family, his relationship with the different people he works with… it is giving it a more …

