Apocalypses are not Ranvir Shorey's cup of tea. Instead, he keeps it casual. Wearing a white tee - his retort to a hot November morning - he clambers down a staircase leading to the basement library of one of his favourite haunts in Versova, a comics cafe called Leaping Windows. Later, he tells us about his vast collection of comics, now lost to adulthood, and offhandedly recalls how his friends once called him Suppandi, after the popular simple-minded character by the same name. "I had an extended head just like his as a child,' he says, showing us a side profile for good measure.

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This, however, shouldn't throw you off the exacting standards that Shorey keeps. With equal earnestness, he says, "We have always been warned about an impending environmental disaster. But, I don't want to be a doomsayer and talk about it in apocalyptic terms." You have to watch Shorey segue back and forth between the serious and the playful. It comes naturally to the 45-year-old actor, who awaits the release of his new film, Kadvi Hawa on November 24. The film, directed by Nila Madhab Panda, who also made the National Award-winning I Am Kalam, is touted as the Bollywood's first feature film on climate change.

Shorey clarifies that Kadvi Hawa is a human story, not an "issue-based" film. Neither is it Hollywood, he adds. Commenting on how Mumbai's winters have turned into milder summers, Shorey says, "Climate change is not going to be the way they show it in Hollywood disaster movies. They use it to show hurricanes, volcanoes and tsunamis. There is no big wave that is going to wipe out a country India's size. It's not going to be dramatic; it will be a slow, painful death. And, the people who are going to be affected are the masses and not the one percent."