00:00 No one can cheat in the field of singing.
00:02 My ears are surreal. I am not a singer.
00:04 Because I know what is good singing.
00:05 My list of failures is very long.
00:08 I would say that I have never done a bad work.
00:12 I have never done a bad work.
00:13 What is your first impression of your family?
00:22 Family...
00:27 Life is a very different kind of life.
00:30 There are many responsibilities.
00:32 There are many commitments.
00:34 It is a very difficult thing.
00:38 I...
00:40 Coincidentally, the girl I have married...
00:46 We have similar thoughts.
00:51 She is also a nationalistic girl like me.
00:55 Similarly, when the press asked her...
00:59 How are you feeling getting married to a Punjabi?
01:02 She said, "I am sorry, I am not married to a Punjabi. I am married to an Indian."
01:06 So, she is an Indian and I am also an Indian.
01:10 Your voice is so beautiful.
01:13 Did you want to become a singer or...
01:16 By chance, now you got into acting.
01:19 I didn't want to become a singer or an actor.
01:22 I wanted to become a surgeon.
01:24 But...
01:26 My parents were poor folks.
01:28 So, they couldn't afford my further studies.
01:33 So, I had to join the theatre out of helplessness.
01:36 In my life, everything happened out of helplessness.
01:39 I became an actor.
01:41 Then, suddenly...
01:44 I got a close-up of Antarkshari.
01:47 People started listening to my songs.
01:51 Actually, I wanted to become a surgeon.
01:54 Now, I have nothing left.
01:58 I am neither an actor nor a singer.
02:00 Have you taken any classical singing training?
02:05 Struggle never left time to take any training.
02:11 Especially, classical singing.
02:13 With good people, with learned people...
02:18 If you get a little bit of blessings...
02:21 If you sit with good people...
02:23 If you sit with learned people...
02:25 You can learn a lot from them.
02:28 I would say that my company was of very good people.
02:31 I have listened to very big people.
02:34 I have sat with them and listened to them for hours.
02:37 So, after listening...
02:39 I am not a singer but my ears are melodious.
02:41 No one can cheat me in singing.
02:44 My ears are melodious.
02:45 I am not a singer.
02:46 Because I know what is good singing.
02:48 Normally, in your movies...
02:50 Your role, whether it is small or big...
02:52 It leaves a mark.
02:54 There is a lot of...
02:56 It was a small role but it made a very important mark.
03:00 How do you try to portray it?
03:04 Or do you select the role after reading the script?
03:08 Or do you make it like that?
03:12 Initially, I got such roles...
03:16 Maybe some producers and directors...
03:19 They liked my talent.
03:26 I don't look like a hero...
03:30 To be given a role like Aamir Khan or Shahrukh Khan.
03:34 Whatever I was given...
03:36 I tried to do it with honesty and hard work.
03:40 How successful I am in it...
03:42 Or whether I am failing...
03:44 That is a different thing.
03:45 I believe in doing everything with sincerity.
03:50 Otherwise, I am not interested in doing anything.
03:53 My last film was...
03:57 Drohokaal was released by Govind Nailani.
04:00 I haven't done any film after that.
04:02 I am not doing any film nowadays.
04:04 And the last film I shot was Kala Pani.
04:06 I shot that in March 1995.
04:10 So, you are not doing any films now?
04:13 There is no offer like this...
04:15 For someone who wants to do it.
04:17 I made my own film in 1994.
04:20 For kids.
04:21 I got the President Award for Direction in 1995.
04:25 And I also got the award for Direction from Shantaram.
04:30 So, I am finding somewhere else for my creativity and frustration.
04:38 Anuj, tell me one thing...
04:41 Whatever you do, you are very successful in that.
04:45 No, you got the wrong information.
04:48 My list of failures is very long.
04:51 So, what is the reason for that?
04:53 You started with a simple thing in Antarktis.
04:57 You did not click.
05:00 And you made it so big.
05:02 Antarktis is selling only because of you.
05:05 No, there are many things that count.
05:08 Destiny and time are very important.
05:11 And failure and success...
05:17 It is there.
05:20 Sometimes you are successful and sometimes you fail.
05:24 But I would say that I have never done a bad work in my life.
05:31 I have never done a bad work.
05:33 Whether it worked or not is a different thing.
05:36 But I have never done a bad work.
05:38 I can give you a guarantee for that.
05:40 If I make a film, I am making a TV serial.
05:44 I made a film in 1994.
05:46 I cannot make a bad film.
05:48 Maybe I will make a bad film.
05:51 I cannot make a bad film.
05:54 Any important incident which took place while shooting?
05:58 Which has touched you a lot?
06:01 Any such scene or incident?
06:04 There is a program called 'Sound and Light'
06:17 In which I incorporated a poem written by Veer Savarkar.
06:23 I liked that poem so much
06:26 that I could not even describe it for 4 hours.
06:34 I could not describe what I was feeling.
06:39 Your words get lost at a point
06:42 when your emotions start running so fast.
06:48 The intensity of those emotions becomes so high
06:50 that you find that you cannot describe it.
06:54 Words do not give you support.
06:58 They do not give you support at all.
07:00 There is a scene where we are all in a cell
07:05 and there is a very violent prisoner.
07:10 He asks Veer Savarkar,
07:12 "Dada, how did you manage to live in this mad house?"
07:21 Veer Savarkar says with a smile,
07:29 "In this violent environment of torture and machinations,
07:38 if I could see a ray of hope and life,
07:41 it would be the chirping of birds and the sound of a bulbul outside my cell.
07:49 In this violent environment of torture and machinations,
07:53 if I could see a ray of hope and life,
07:56 it would be the chirping of birds and the sound of a bulbul outside my cell.
08:01 If I knew their language,
08:04 I would teach them songs of patriotism.
08:06 If someone heard these songs,
08:08 he would say that the song of patriotism
08:11 that the bulbul sings outside his cell
08:13 must be that of Veer Savarkar.
08:15 So, I was very impressed by this.
08:20 Thank you.
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