Actor Pavan Malhotra will be seen in the MXPlayer show Shiksha Mandal which he says is not ‘yet another web series on the education scam’. He admits that there have been numerous shows and films on the subject in the last few years but adds that there is still scope to tell the story in a better manner which Shiksha Mandal is attempting to do. The veteran actor talks about the show, his attempts to avoid typecasting, and the commerce of Bollywood.
Shiksha Mandal comes SonyLiv’s Whisteblower and Lionsgate Play’s Jugaadistan both of which were centred on the education scams India has seen.There is also the 2019 film Setters which even featured Pavan in an important role , safe to say there is no dearth of stories around this topic but Pavan believes there is still scope to say things differently. While referring to Setters, he says, “Almost 3-4 years ago, I had done a film on the same subject and we couldn’t tell the story properly. But it was my belief that this subject needs to reach the people properly. When this came to me, I could have thought I had done this already. But I took this as a chance to do this differently, in a better manner.”The actor has been in the industry for over three decades but says he still gets nervous at times and one such moment happened on the sets of Shiksha Mandal.
