Noida: There is a particular kind of person Divyenndu says he does not come across much anymore — someone who still believes, almost naively, that something wrong can be changed simply because it should be. That is the idea he built his latest character around, and it gives Waiting Hai a more interesting centre than its railway-ticket scam premise alone might suggest.
Directed by Sameer Vidwans, Waiting Hai follows Sugam Mishra, a newly appointed railway police officer who begins noticing irregularities in the ticketing system and refuses to let them go. What starts as one man’s suspicion gradually pulls him into a much larger racket and into a cat-and-mouse pursuit of Afroz Hamza, a young hacker played by Bhuvan Arora. Prime Video describes the series as a story built around a large-scale railway ticketing scam, with Sugam determined to bring the network down.
Divyenndu leads the cast alongside Bhuvan Arora, with Kumud Mishra, Vijay Maurya, Harshita Gaur, Srushti Tare and Sunita Rajwar in supporting roles. In comments shared by Prime Video, Divyenndu framed Sugam less as a crime-drama protagonist than as a particular kind of person worth paying attention to. “What really drew me to Sugam was how pure-hearted he is and how genuine his intentions are,” he said. “In today’s day and age, when we all have so much going on, you seldom come across someone like Sugam, who is so pure at heart, almost to the extent of being naive, and yet believes that he can change things.”
That naivety is not treated as weakness. By Divyenndu’s account, it is precisely what puts Sugam on a collision course with people and systems far more powerful than he is. “It shows that when an honest individual dares to stand up against something unjust, there will always be challenges, whether it is bureaucracy or hierarchy, but you can still find a way through them,” he said in the same statement. “That core of Sugam, of going against all odds, is what really attracted me to him.”
Divyenndu also spoke about resisting the urge to make the character unusually clever or heroic. “Maybe he is not the brightest person in the room, but he has all the right intentions and the courage to follow that inner voice,” he said. “That is the beauty of Sugam, and I think that is also why people are connecting with him. We don’t need to wear a cape to be a superhero.”
It is an unfashionable idea for a genre often built around twists, intelligence and larger-than-life protagonists — that perhaps the most compelling quality in a character is simply the refusal to stop caring when caring comes with a cost. Whether Waiting Hai fully earns that idea through its plotting is another question. But Divyenndu’s description of Sugam gives viewers a clearer reason to pay attention to him than the ticketing-scam premise alone.
Waiting Hai is now streaming on Prime Video.
