After making a mark with his portrayal of a complex protagonist in the web series Kathmandu Connection and a Pakistani antagonist in Commando, Amit Sial is back with a new film, this time an emotional family drama, Yellow Bus. “The life of an antagonist is very interesting, he can do anything. Those characters have fantastic shades. But since I am an actor and want to do a variety of roles, I have no favoritism among my characters.
In Yellow Bus, Amit Sial plays the father of a school-going girl who dies in an unfortunate accident. The trailer is enough to indicate the intensity of the storm that hits him and his wife and explores what happens when a couple loses a child. “It shows what you cannot see from the outside, how the surviving family members deal with coming out of the grief,” says the actor.
Yellow Bus is not just a different film for Amit but also turned out to be a new, enriching experience for the actor as it was his first visit to the Gulf. The film has been shot in Abu Dhabi (location not revealed) and is a collaborative effort involving Indian, Jordanian, Emirati, and American production houses. It had its world premiere at the recently held Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2023.
Opening up about the film shoot in Abu Dhabi, Amit says, “Shooting abroad is obviously a different experience. It was quite intriguing as everything was new for me. As some were from Tunisia, some from Egypt, and some from Lebanon, talking to them, getting to know them better, and experiencing their different cultures was quite a nice experience.
