Yoodlee Films conducts online auditions amid coronavirus lockdown

The nationwide lockdown to curb the novel coronavirus pandemic has forced people to stay home, and many have been working from home since. Production house Yoodlee Films has decided to make the best of the conditions.

The production house is now readying itself to conduct online auditions for their forthcoming urban comedy film titled Comedy Couple – scheduled to release directly on a major OTT platform.

Commenting on this development, Siddharth Anand Kumar, the Vice President, Television and Films, Saregama, said, “These are extraordinary times we are living in, and we need to find a way to adapt around it. We felt that this was really the best time to reach out to a whole lot of talent out there and conduct online auditions for our upcoming direct-to-OTT film – Comedy Couple. We also realise that this allows us to reach out to a larger corpus of potential actors across the country, blurring geographical boundaries.”

He also added that the shift was imminent, given the current scenario.

Applicants will first need to record a monologue of their choice from any film and send that across to a designated email id. The shortlisted ones will then be contacted for the second round of live auditions, through necessary video calling apps.

This live audition will be more detailed, with immediate feedback and engagement is given to the applicants.

The production house which won two National awards in 2019 for Hamid will also work on a Tamil film - a situational comedy, a Marathi film called Habaddi, along with three other Hindi films– Chaman Bahaar, Axone and Bahut Hua Samaan that are ready for the release.