00:00 When I first came to the industry, everyone used to say, "Oh my God! How long is this?"
00:06 "And where will we get a hero for this?"
00:09 In this film, Manisha ji, I, and all of us actors have faced accidents once.
00:16 'Kaisa Bastool' is probably my career's funniest film so far.
00:20 It's a genre that goes into comedy, it's a thriller, it's a drama.
00:26 I think except action, it's pretty much everything.
00:31 Baby is the character I play in the film.
00:35 And she is the funniest woman I've ever met.
00:40 And I'm so looking forward for this film to be released because
00:43 'Bibi No. 1' was a film that people saw me do comedy, attempted for the first time.
00:50 In this film, it's an author-backed role.
00:53 You really have to have gone really wrong not to be able to perform this as beautifully.
00:59 Vaas, the director of the film, he's written it beautifully.
01:02 The whole film was orchestrated so well that for an artist, it was a dream.
01:07 You just had to be on the sets and you had to be pretty much yourself.
01:10 I think I am in real life a pretty funny woman.
01:14 So it was easier for me to do comedy.
01:17 Shukmina ji, can you say that this film is a little bit different from your real life?
01:23 Because I mean, you're quite tall and this film is also like...
01:27 See, one thing definitely happened to me in this industry.
01:34 When I first came into the industry, everyone used to say, "Oh my God, how tall is she?"
01:40 And, "Where will I get a hero for this?"
01:44 So, now after 7 years, sometimes I've lost my heel, sometimes the hero has worn it.
01:52 But it has worked out really well.
01:55 And, in Paisa Vasool, it's the same thing that she's a struggling dancer, actress,
02:00 who's not getting a job because there are no tall heroes in the industry.
02:04 And I think it was beautifully done.
02:07 I don't have much interaction with real life in the film.
02:11 But I can relate to the character of Baby to a great extent.
02:15 Because her friendship with Manisha is there in the film.
02:18 Manisha is Maria in the film.
02:20 So, I can relate to the relationship between Maria and Baby with that friendship.
02:26 Because I've had a lot of such friendships in my life.
02:28 In this film, you've played 10 characters, and you've also played a police inspector.
02:33 So, throughout the journey of playing these characters...
02:35 It's all caricatures.
02:36 It's like you're watching 10 different films in one film.
02:39 And the characters keep changing, like in the film.
02:43 So, in Paisa Vasool, every moment of the film, in conjunction, relating to each other,
02:51 makes a story.
02:52 But every moment in the film is like from a different film.
02:55 So, it's truly Paisa Vasool.
02:58 I mean, you're watching one film and you're watching 10 films in one.
03:01 It changed you again because you've introduced her, like Manisha Chaudhary.
03:04 That's right.
03:05 What was the power of Manisha in this film that made you choose her?
03:09 Look, I think Manisha Kaurala had taken a very smart decision.
03:16 That she wanted to make a film like Paisa Vasool.
03:18 Where, as you know, there's no hero.
03:22 But there are only actors.
03:24 There are actresses, actors, there's Sushant Singh.
03:27 He's done a great job.
03:29 So, we haven't made this film on the laws of the industry.
03:34 That there should be a hero, what are the salability factors,
03:38 there should be an item number, this should be there.
03:41 This film is not made according to that.
03:43 This film is made for an intelligent audience, which is today's audience.
03:46 I mean, today's audience explains us editing,
03:49 tells us that makeup is wrong,
03:50 tells us where the costumes are not right.
03:53 So, for such an audience, it's very important to show a film like Paisa Vasool in today's date.
03:58 So, I think Manisha has done a fantastic job by choosing a subject,
04:01 which is universal.
04:03 Which, right from a little baby to a grown-up person,
04:06 would enjoy watching the film.
04:07 It's an entertainment.
04:08 So, you think it was an interesting experience while working on Paisa Vasool,
04:12 because a lot of madness, a lot of adventure has been happening throughout this project.
04:16 Yes, in this film, in fact, there are so many anecdotes, so many incidents.
04:23 But the serious incidents are that,
04:26 in this film, Manisha ji once, and then me once,
04:30 and then all of us actors have faced accidents once.
04:34 Manisha ji and I were driving a horse-drawn carriage in a scene.
04:38 That horse-drawn carriage,
04:42 the moment it was said to be cut, it was turned upside down.
04:45 At which point, Manisha had a fracture.
04:49 I had a disc problem.
04:52 After doing all this, after getting drenched,
04:54 this film and that scene specifically,
04:56 were made very well, because we both were feeling very uncomfortable on the horse.
05:00 And I was in a police uniform,
05:04 and Maria was also my constable.
05:06 So, all these scenes, unfortunately for us, and thankfully,
05:11 didn't stop the film.
05:13 It was made, despite all that.
05:15 It also happened many times in the film that,
05:18 the clothes of the baby,
05:20 the character's clothes,
05:22 had to be very funky and things.
05:24 So, the designer used to bring the clothes on the set,
05:26 and Manisha and I used to sit and take scissors,
05:29 cut the clothes in between and make it fanciful.
05:32 So, in the entire film, the costumes you will see,
05:35 I request you with folded hands,
05:37 that you only see the costumes according to the character.
05:40 Because, there are so many,
05:43 dirty costumes, because the character was very dirty,
05:47 that it's come out really well.
05:49 I mean, we have really worked hard.
05:50 I think, me and Manisha both have been the designers,
05:52 costume designers in the film.
05:54 We've been make-up artists.
05:56 We have done some of the dialogues on our own also.
05:58 It's a comedy, you have to improvise all the time.
06:01 But, amazing time we've had.
06:03 It's an amazing time.
06:04 The very fact that, I think, in so many ways,
06:16 this film is a pioneering effort.
06:19 I mean, to have a commercial Hindi film,
06:22 with no hero, two women,
06:24 and it's in the lines of very,
06:27 you know, you used to have these films with Mr. Bachchan,
06:30 and Vinod Khanna,
06:32 and you know, these whole two male friends stories.
06:35 I think, years later,
06:37 we have attempted to recapture that,
06:39 Laurel and Hardy pair,
06:41 with two women.
06:42 And, to me, that's very special,
06:44 because years down the line,
06:45 when people watch Paisa Vasu,
06:47 it will stand for what it really is.
06:49 It's a pioneering effort.
06:50 It's going against what has been forever done.
06:53 And in commercials.
06:55 So, that, and the fact that,
06:57 I always feel very proud,
06:59 when a woman does something new, you know.
07:01 And, Manisha being a very dear friend,
07:04 and for her to be producing her first film,
07:06 I'm truly very blessed that she thought of me.
07:09 And, I hope baby works in the film,
07:12 because Manisha was really counting on me being baby,
07:15 and I've done whatever I could.
07:17 Rest is, you guys have to watch the film.
07:19 Now, you have to go and watch this film,
07:21 because it's very, very close to us.
07:23 And, it's not a film that we sit and say,
07:25 "Arey, it's a very in-depth, cinematic experience."
07:30 [Music]
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