Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone have made Bollywood famous with their international projects like ‘Quantico’ and ‘xXx: Return of Xander Cage’. But an actor, who had featured in popular Hollywood films before these actresses was Anil Kapoor, with a popular role in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, following it up with Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol’ and lending his voice for ‘Family Guy’.
The actor is all set to go international again, this time for a digital series based on the popular book, ‘The Book of Strange New Things’, written by Michel Faber.
Incidentally, Kapoor had refused to be part of the project when he was offered it the first time as he was busy with the shoot of his own television series ’24’ and his son Harshvardhan was gearing up for his debut at that time. However, the makers were keen to wait for Kapoor and the actor later shot for the pilot of the series in South Africa this October.
Kapoor will essay the role of authoritarian Vikram Danesh in the project who is the leader of the planet Oasis in space and meets the protagonist, an English priest, when he is sent to space.
