SquidGame premiered on Sept. 17. “I still remember, September 17, 2021, 4pm, my life was OK, but after 5pm, it became huge, humongous – suddenly everyone was messaging me and it was ‘Ali,’ ‘Ali’,” says breakout star Anupam Tripathi.
Tripathi plays Ali Abdul, a Pakistani economic migrant to South Korea who is one of hundreds of deep-in-debt people roped into a deadly contest based on Korean playground games.
The budding actor intended to apply to India’s prestigious National School of Drama, the institution that has produced some of the country’s finest actors, including Naseeruddin Shah, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, but South Korea came calling. In January 2020, after returning to South Korea from a brief trip home, Tripathi was contacted by a Korean casting agency specializing in foreign characters. The actor sent in a tape and then progressed to an audition with the casting director. Language was no longer a barrier. The part was that of Ali in “Squid Game.” The next stage was a meeting with director Hwang Dong-Hyuk. Tripathi was familiar with his previous work, the 2017 multiple award-winning period action drama “The Fortress.
“I tried to go as close as I could to the character,” said Tripathi. “I kept on thinking it’s going to be released in 190 countries, so how can I connect with the audience as a character. That was my internal quest all the way the day from the day they said yes to me to the day it ended.” The actor met several people and stored away moments and gestures to use as Ali.
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