What got Tahir Raj Bhasin instantly interested in Shaque: Trust No One was that creator Siddharth P Malhotra didn’t try too hard to extract a yes from him. “I appreciate it when no one is hard-selling something. I was told, ‘Why don’t you read this? Let’s chat after that.’ That’s comforting because then you know the makers have faith in the material,” the actor told mid-day.

In the Netflix mystery thriller led by Parineeti Chopra, Bhasin plays a father dealing with the aftermath of his baby’s abduction. As he began reading the script, he was engrossed in the “page-turner”. “It was a one night read for me. I love mysteries and thrillers. When I read Shaque, I liked the fact that the incident has happened in the mother’s life but the surrounding people become pieces of the puzzle, and the audience starts playing detective.”