Kaatelal & Sons actor Manav Soneji to feature in Amazon Mini TV’s show School Friends

Actor Manav Soneji, who was seen in the TV shows like ‘Anandibaa Aur Emily’, ‘Kaatelal & Sons’, ‘Mere Sai’, ‘Akbar’, ‘Tedi Medhi Family’, ‘Badi Door Se Aaye Hai’, AdhaFULL’, ‘Gumraah 5’ and Amazon Mini Tv’s web series ‘Crime Aaj Kal’, now set to feature in light hearted comedy web series ‘School Friends’ on Amazon Mini TV which is set to release on 12th July.

The actor gets candid about his character and working experience in the series. Manav said, “As it is my first web series as Lead, I am very excited about it. It’s a comedy and fun-loving character who always laughing and cracking jokes around. He loves his friends and is a kindhearted person. I love playing comedy characters as I a very comfortable playing it.”

Talking about what prompted him to say yes to the character he shares, “Comedy is The Only Key! The character itself! Casting director Dimple Mewara ma’am called me for this character, while reading the script I knew that somehow, I have to crack it because I loved the character. Our director Sahil Sir wanted me to cut my hair, I had long hair before so had to cut my hair way to short for this one.”

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Sharing about the USP of the show he tells, “Show is all about Friendship, Comedy, Love, Fights, Madness and the fun we all had in our school, I believe the time we spend in our school, it stays forever with us. Audience are going to love it because of the concept itself. I’m sure watching this show, many of them will be like, “Yeh humne bhi school me kiya tha.”

Describing his shooting experience he tells, “It was fun but at a point I missed my school days and school friends while shooting, I remember, it was our farewell, and I was the first person to cry because I knew no one is going to meet again after this. I was right! It’s sad while growing up we don’t even know where our school friends are. Maybe that’s Life! It’s always a blessing to work with such a wonderful team, I’m thankful to Sahil Verma Sir and Varun Sobti Sir for making the character so fun loving! Great working with our DOP Chirayush Bhanushali sir and Pranay Phadtare sir and will always be thankful to Neeraj Dhingraa Sir and Rusk Media for giving me this opportunity and trusting me for one of the leads.”