“Through the series, [Sinha] is trying to show that we don’t need to surrender our dignity and value to obtain relevance [with respect to journalists’ roles in media]. We don’t need to arrive at [any conclusion about a situation] without giving the subject the time and value it requires,” Mirza says. She adds that although the incident occurred 25 years ago, the debate remains highly relevant today. Be it the hijacking in 1999 or the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, it is apparent that every piece of information passed needs to be verified as the “situation is sensitive and involves real people and their loved ones. I don’t know if people think about those things in the news anymore,” she wonders.

Mirza, who previously played a journalist in Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007), delves deeper into the core of journalism in this series. She expresses delight in exploring her character Shalini’s dynamic with Amrita Puri’s character, a fierce print reporter. “It was interesting [to explore] the equation I share with Amrita Puri in the news space and the advent of TV journalism. I don’t know if a lot has changed, but at that time, not many women were in positions of power. How they used that power and how they were controlled by the powers at play [is an interesting aspect in this series],” shares the actor. The series also features Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapur, Vijay Varma, Arvind Swami, Patralekhaa, Kumud Mishra, Manoj Pahwa, Kanwaljeet Singh, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Sushant Singh, Rajeev Thakur, and Yashpal Sharma.

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Having walked a mile in a journalist’s shoes now,  Mirza recalls the hardships reporters endure. “One of my friends, who was a TV journalist and nine months pregnant at the time, told me how she was called for duty at 4.30 on a cold winter morning in the Delhi fog,” she shares.