Mukesh Chhabra, 42, is, arguably, some of the influential individual in Indian cinema. The man who ‘discovered’ Rajkumar Rao (Shahid, Trapped), Sushant Singh Rajput (Kai Po Che), Sanya Malhotra , Fatima Sana Shaikh (Dangal), Pratik Gandhi (Scam 1992) has now forged for over 300 movies and virtually 90 OTT sequence. The founding father of Mukesh Chhabra Casting Company can also be the director Dil Bechara (2020), curator of Khidkiyaan, a 5-day theatre pageant held yearly in Mumbai for 3 years. He is together with Neha Singh, co-author of Moongphali a e-book of brief tales for kids. Vanita Kohli-Khandekar spoke to him in regards to the function of casting within the cinema ecosystem. Edited excerpts.