Gurmeet Choudhary rose to fame as Ram on TV, following it up by foraying into Bollywood with Karan Darra’s horror romance, Khamoshiyan, in 2015. His follow-up film, the Vishal Pandya directed Wajah Tum Ho, will see him in the role of an aggressive lawyer. It also features Sana Khaan, Sharman Joshi and Rajniesh Duggall. Vishal had earlier directed Hate Story 2 and 3.

The 32-year-old actor told Mirror that he spent months in the black robes in an Andheri court built at a studio in Madh Island. “I’d get a spot boy to leave one overhead light on and would constantly rehearse my lines to get the nuances right,” Gurmeet said, adding that the makers have recreated the iconic Sunny Deol and Meenakshi Sheshadri sequence from Rajkumar Santoshi’s 1993 courtroom drama Damini where the former screams at the judge, “Tareekh pe tareekh milti rahi hai lekin insaaf nahi mila my lord”.

Gurmeet practiced the scene for days, watching the original repeatedly and claims it’s a modern take on Damini with Sana Khan stepping into the late Amrish Puri’s shoes. He cites Hansal Mehta’s National Award-winning 2013 biographical drama, Shahid, as one of the most realistic portrayals of a courtroom apart from the more recent Pink in which Amitabh Bachchan played a lawyer.

The erotic T-Series crime-thriller explores how high-end technology can be wrongly used to escalate the impact of a crime after a murder suddenly goes live on TV across channels. The idea came to Vishal when, after hearing his friends tell him how much they hated TV, went through survey reports and was shocked to find that 94 per cent of India watches TV regularly. That sparked off the idea of these couch potatoes watching a crime live at home, in the office, at a lounge, just about anywhere.