at a time when longform content was barely testing waters in the country sumeet vyas made many heads turn playing the iconic mikesh in the youtube webseries permanent roommates his portrayal of the mumbling innocent and nerdy lover boy struck an instant chord with the audience over the last few decades sumeet has starred in many projects including movies like english vinglish veere di wedding chhatriwali and the recent afwaahread alsoaudience loves womanoriented stories says radhika apteradhika apte shares that viewers today pay more attention to womenled taleshe has also turned director withtankesh diaries a spin off from permanent roommates and is cowriting season 4 of tripling costarring amol parashar and maanvi gagroo currently garnering rave reviews for his rakish antagonist role in the ott movie mrs undercover sumeet talks to etimes about balancing so many hatsyour role in mrs undercover came as a shocker to manywhen the makers approached me for this i was initially sceptical but soon jumped on it i knew that this is a scary proposition and will be an uncomfortable experience the behavior patterns of my character were extremely menacing and it obviously doesnt come naturally to me however i also felt that this is perhaps the only reason why i wanted to become an actor to be able to play characters that are not rooted in reality so it was great i certainly enjoyed the rolewriting acting directing you seem to balance many hatswell that has always sort of been the idea to go beyond my comfort zone and do something out of the box as an artist i am not someone who would simply give the shot and retire to his makeup van to eat a salad i need to be constantly on the move testing out new waters it is all about constantly learning unlearning and doing many things along the waytell us a little bit about afwaah and its lukewarm response at the boto start off with the movie was never meant to be a propoganda tale it was made with the intent to get attention it was just satire and this whole genre of satire has sort of gone a little obsolete in the last few years back in the day we had cartoonists who would do cartoons on political leaders and their reforms and they all would take it positively that was a satire because satire is not just a social commentary it is also a comment on us as a society and how we see and react to things around ushow did the idea of permanent roommates come abouthonestly since there was no ott at that time we had no idea whether something like this could be made in the first place to start off with the first episode was created as a brand video for a home rental company however when we shot for it we realised that we can spin a whole story around it it was a unconscious accident but it