Bollywood’s talented actor Jim Sarbh has done theatre, films, and web series, and now he is making his TV debut with a four-part series ‘Planet Healers’, which is about the start-ups who are seeking innovative solutions to environmental hazards.
The show is about various start-up projects who have found unique ways of recycling or re-purposing things that are harmful to the environment — like converting plastic to poly fuel or creating paint out of smoke.
“When the makers approached me with the gist of what the show is about, I was interested. I wanted to lend my voice and face to it as I believed this is something worth supporting. In the money-minded times that we live in, these start-ups present a model to help the environment while also making money, which is perfect,” says Jim.
“I am a vegetarian. I try to conserve water and avoid plastic as much as I can. I have a car, but I don’t use it very much —only when I go for my shoots, so the carbon footprint is tiny. I am not a major jet-setter, I am a simple man who likes to be on a good beach, have a little swim and play beach football,” he adds.
On the question, which of the medium he finds challenging, he answers, “They are all challenging in different ways. But this TV show was quite easy because I am good at reading out loud in English! It is harder when one has to shoot for a scene that involves a lot of Urdu. I have to work a lot on the pre-production then. I recently shot for a pilot for a horror web series and I had a few Urdu lines. I have to learn it properly to sound good and not accidentally misquote the Quran. That was harder though it was one day’s shoot.”
The actor signs off jokingly with, “Your whole day will involve seeing my face… sadly for you. But I feel awesome.”