Ishwak Singh: 'Adhura' has been therapeutic for me

Ishwak Singh with Rasika Dugal in the show

Like most of us, Ishwak Singh, in his childhood, enjoyed listening to ghost stories and grew up on a steady diet of them. One would then think that Adhura, his upcoming horror offering with Rasika Dugal, was an enjoyable experience for him. The actor, however, says that above all, the Amazon Prime Video series has been "therapeutic" as it helped him face his deep-seated fears. He recounts, "I used to be a timid kid, but was fascinated by ghost stories. I remember sitting with my grandmother and listening to folklore. But then, I had two experiences that shook me up. The first was when I [thought I] saw an apparition, and the second time, I heard a whisper. These couldn't have been a figment of my imagination. The only way I could deal with them was by trying to convince myself that they weren't real. After that, I stopped watching horror movies."

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Adhura, directed by Gaurav Chawla and Ananya Banerjee, is set in an elite boarding school that hides a dark secret. The supernatural thriller made Singh confront his fears. "In the beginning, it was difficult because I felt I was hearing voices or feeling a presence - essentially, [experiencing] all the things I was reading about [in the script]. But after a while, I was able to rationalise why those [two incidents] had happened to me in the past. Knowledge liberates a person. Adhura has been therapeutic for me in many ways. [Within the premise of a supernatural thriller], the show deals with real issues."