Desi scrooge | 'Toaster'

In Toaster (Netflix), his maiden film as producer, Rajkummar Rao found inspiration in the most unlikely form—an animated character. To play a miser obsessed with reclaiming a toaster he once gifted—an obsession that spirals into chaos—Rajkummar drew inspiration from Scrat, the acorn-fixated squirrel in Ice Age. He used it to capture the emotional bond between a person and an object. “Ramakant is like, I want it back no matter what,” he says. “When he briefly gets the toaster, the way he looks at it and hugs it is just like the squirrel with the nut.”