Sudhanshu Saria: Our rule was you can’t get actors over 21 years

Updated On: 12 March, 2024 05:47 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu

Unlike YA offerings that pass off older actors as teenagers, Big Girls Don’t Cry director Saria on how the team went scouting from Kolkata to LA for seven fresh faces

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Avantika Vandanapu (third from left) of Mean Girls’ fame sent her audition tape from Los Angeles

The first thing that strikes one about Big Girls Don’t Cry is that its posters have seven relatively unknown faces staring back at you. This, when the young adult series also stars Pooja Bhatt, Zoya Hussain and Raima Sen. Sudhanshu Saria, who has helmed the Prime Video offering with three directors, says it was a conscious decision. “We are batting on the front foot in terms of who this show is for. Amazon surprised us. We never saw any marketing material that didn’t embrace the show’s intent. Everything about the show had a creator-first approach, and Amazon set that standard,” he beams.

Sudhanshu Saria