Anupama Chopra sits down with Prithviraj Sukumaran for a wide-ranging In Focus conversation at The Hollywood Reporter India, arriving fresh off a Khalifa wrap in Dubai and in the middle of what he calls an exciting but chaotic stretch. The actor and producer breaks down I, Nobody, Nissam Basheer's genre-shifting heist drama in which he plays Rajeevan, an ordinary government employee pulled into extraordinary circumstances, and explains why a film that looks intense on the surface is, to him, quietly joyful. Prithviraj talks about being one of Malayalam cinema's most accessible actors, working without a manager to filter scripts, and his belief that the lead actor should come on board as a stakeholder so a film has more room to breathe. The conversation moves to Varanasi, where Prithviraj describes SS Rajamouli as the hardest-working filmmaker he has ever met, recalling a single shot that ran past take ninety before the director called a wrap and started again the next morning. He reflects on learning to trust Rajamouli's judgment on a film of unprecedented scale, his collaborations with Meghna Gulzar on Daayra and Rahul Sadasivan on Odiyan, Dharma Productions' first Malayalam venture, and the long road still ahead for the Empuraan saga with Mohanlal and Murali Gopy. Across it all, he returns to a two-decade mission of taking Malayalam cinema to the world, why mediocrity is the least self-aware trap an artist can fall into, and why he trusts his audience to tell him the moment he slips. #PrithvirajSukumaran #INobody #THRIndia