Karanvir Bohra on playing the character of Klaw in ‘Marvel Wastelanders’; ‘He’s no longer a human’

Karanvir Bohra On playing Klaw in Marvel Wastelanders

So I’ve seen who Klaw is in the Marvel Universe, and he’s done a great job in that. But you know, the character the guy who played was called Andy Serkis. So he’s very different. I mean, he was very different from what I had in mind because again, this Marvel Wastelander, it’s a post apocalyptic series, 30 years from now. All the superheroes are dead. You know, the villains have taken over.

So he’s got a really interesting and a very important role. He’s become sound himself. He’s no longer a human.

So that was the first cue that I had to take was that he is sound and he’s a villain. And he knows his power. So how will that kind of a person or that kind of a being talk. He’ll have very stretch stretched sentences, very conniving, evil. He knows his power. You cannot catch him. You cannot hold him. He can run through sound, he can travel anywhere.

So he is very powerful in that sense. He knows his power. He can manipulate things really well. So all these aspects, I was just talking with Mantra and I was asking that how about if we talk where every sentence, every word is enunciated, is stretched, you know, is spoken like a sound, like a piano, a harmonium, if you press a chord, it stretches. It goes for a long time.

So every symbol, every syllable is stretched. That was my cue, and that was how I planned to work on the dialogue.

On his experience of recording this for an audio platform

The phone is very funny, you know, when I saw myself. I told them that he’s recording because I’ve never performed like this before. But one thing I realized while performing, I realized and then I saw myself on the phone as we played myself. I said this is very much like a theater acting, stage acting. Because even in stage acting, your facial expressions aren’t seen. And you have to reach out your voice and your mannerisms, your physical mannerisms. That’s what we were taught in theater that you will have to reach out to the last person sitting out there. You’re not just performing for the front people in the front. So keeping that in mind, you have to be very over the top, dramatic, loud.

And even in Audible, there is no audience. They’re not in front of you. They can’t see you, so they have to imagine you. So you have to work for their imagination. So every word spoken, you have to think that, how will they imagine me talking.

On facing challenges for voicing this character

One thing I must say is that I tapped a new potential in me through this, because I never knew that I could do a voice over or dub or something like this, because this is because I love playing roles that are negative, that are anti hero is. I played a lot of those kind of roles.

What was it like working with Mantra to, develop this whole portrayal of Klaw?

What I love about Mantra is that he exactly knows what he wants because he’s been a sound guy himself since the longest time I’ve known him. I’ve known him for a very long time and he’s very dedicated to his craft, very honest to his craft. And working on something like Audible, only someone like Mantra could have done it.

And he really understands sound very well. So if he’s saying tha you’re doing a great job, I have to believe that, yes, it is doing great. But acknowledgment is very important, and what I appreciate about Mantra is that he acknowledges.

On his upcoming projects

I’m coming up with a song that I’ve sung. It’s a rap song that I’ve sung. So that should be coming out by end of this month. So I’m very excited about that. That’s my first, like, first time I’m pouring into singing. And the funny part is in the month of September, first time I’m, doing a voice over for something like this.