Get Snappy: Heena Dsouza

Director- writer Heena D Souza has worked during the pandemic to complete her comedy thriller Mukesh Jasoos. In a candid interview with Sumita Chakraborty, Heena talks about working on her show Mukesh Jasoos, working with known names and more.

- Sumita Chakraborty

Heena, tells us a bit about your show Mukesh Jasoos - which is written and directed by you.

Mukesh Jasoos is a comedy thriller detective series that is very different from the conventional content we have in the space so far. The common understanding or perception of a detective is that he will be a suave, sophisticated, super-human, sexy kind of a man. Mukesh, on the other hand, is someone we encounter every day in a bus or train. He is unremarkable in looks, skills and style. The thing that works for him is the grit and some luck here and there. I wanted to break the James Bond stereotypes for a detective of style, or Byomkesh Bakshi style of intellectual capability. He is not just everyone's detective; he is literally everyone. Ordinary and average!

The only thing negatively extraordinary about him is his problems. He is a law failed bogus lawyer whose wife has eloped with his cousin and left behind her mother to live with him. Now he lives in a congested one-room kitchen house in a Basti along with his alcoholic mother-in-law. To top it, his wife still comes to visit her mother at his home along with her lover!