The Family Man 3's Raj Nidimoru On Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Nimrat Kaur's Characters: Could Easily Be Played By Men... | EXCLUSIVE

In a world where female characters are too often boxed into type, The Family Man 3 is quietly rewriting the rules with equally strong roles for the women. The show's co-creator, Raj Nidimoru, revealed that some of its most powerful characters weren’t written as “women” at all. Instead, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Nimrat Kaur’s roles were crafted as people first. So much so that, as Raj admits, their parts “could easily be played by men.”

Raj Nidimoru On Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Nimrat Kaur

In an exclusive interview with Zoom, he said, "Think of them as persons and not with gender. Creating a character, man or woman, that's it. That is the biggest thing. So, never think it's a female character so we need to kind of play it this way or that way. That's why most of these roles that you just listed could easily be played by men. All three roles you just listed could have been a man, and it would fit right there."

He added, "I saw the similarity. We actually wrote Nimran's role as a guy in the first draft and then we could easily switch. Suddenly, the female character became so interesting and exciting and unique."

Raj Nidimoru Talks About The Family Man 3

Raj also said that they treat every episode of The Family Man 3 like a full-fledged film. "I don't think we think of rules like they'll slip off here and stuff like that. And also we are originally feature filmmakers, so we approach each episode, each scene, the edit score, the writing anything as a film. For us, it should run like a film. That's the only way I know how to make something. We keep it at that pace and we usually don't have filler scenes at all. Usually, series are supposed to have filler scenes to create the length and all that stuff. We just approach like film, we shoot like it, we shoot at different locations. For us, it's a feature film. Once we figured out the format, it was fun. It was like making 3-4 films at the same time," he said.

The show is set to premiere on November 21.