Abhishek Banerjee on marking Tamil debut with Legacy: 'Pushed me out of my comfort zone'

In 2026, Abhishek Banerjee may have three projects lined up on the same platform, but he insists they couldn’t be more different from one another. While the actor is excited about being part of Netflix’s anthology Lust Stories 3 and Rajkummar Rao’s maiden production Toaster, the project closest to his heart is Legacy. After all, it marks his first Tamil web series. “Working in a different language and cultural environment pushed me out of my comfort zone. It made me more aware, more prepared, and more respectful of how storytelling changes with context and region,” he said of the crime drama led by R Madhavan. 

Unlike Legacy, Lust Stories 3 may have offered Banerjee a familiar language, but the material made him explore unfamiliar terrain. The actor, who stars in filmmaker Vikramaditya Motwane’s segment of the anthology, shared, “Lust Stories has always been bold, honest, and unapologetic in the way it talks about relationships and desire. It allows you to explore silences, awkwardness, and vulnerability — things we don’t often talk about openly. As an actor, that space is both frightening and liberating.” Meanwhile, Toaster, a comedy, is starkly opposite to the more serious offerings.