I am no stranger to hateful characters: Tanmay Dhanania of Aparna Sen's The Rapist

Tanmay Dhanania, who plays the title role in Aparna Sen's The Rapist, did his undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley where he majored in Nuclear Engineering and minored in Theatre and Performance Studies. He then went on to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in the UK. He has also trained with Adishakti and learnt physical theatre with Vikram Iyengar in India. Aparna Sen saw him in an earlier film (Cat Sticks) and cast him for the role. Shoma A. Chatterji engages in a tete-a-tete with the actor