00:00 I've been doing this job for the last 35 years and I don't know anything better.
00:04 It's not that you forget, "How do I act? I forgot."
00:06 Working with Rakesh Roshan and Randhir Kapoor,
00:09 they're buddies and after a long time we were working together.
00:12 Mr. Saman Kumar Tuck has got a track record.
00:15 He's always had fabulous music in his films
00:17 and the songs have been always very different and catchy.
00:20 '70s, they used to always come to me and used to cast me as a leading man.
00:24 Now they don't. There's a big difference.
00:28 What was the script of Madalit that wanted you to be a part of this film?
00:34 Basically, it's not only the script.
00:37 I have worked with Mr. Saman Kumar in two films earlier.
00:42 And then when he asked me to do this film, the other charm was
00:47 working with Rakesh Roshan and Randhir Kapoor.
00:50 They're buddies and after a long time we were working together.
00:54 And then when I heard the script, it's a story of a girl, her mother,
01:01 how she brings her up. Though the girl has got three fathers,
01:05 three biological fathers, nobody knows who the right father is.
01:08 But that is not the point. That's not the story.
01:11 The point is the mother, the child's mother,
01:15 how she brings up the child without a single father.
01:19 She behaves and she brings up the child without a father
01:23 and plays the role of a father, mother, friend, guide, philosopher, all in one.
01:28 But where is the child, the child, this lady's child?
01:33 She finds conventionally the mother has done wrong when three men claim to be the father of this child.
01:41 And then the mother explains that the father, who is the biological father,
01:46 who is the man who pays the money, doesn't bring the child up.
01:51 The child is brought up by love and affection from both father and mother,
01:55 the role played by the mother. That's why the film is called Mother.
01:58 And that's how the whole emotional turmoil is solved in this film.
02:04 What was the experience like for you personally to be facing the camera again after a period, a certain period?
02:11 No, you see, there's a saying in Hindi, monkey when he becomes old,
02:18 he doesn't forget how to climb and jump. So, I've been doing this job for last 35 years and I don't know anything better.
02:26 It's not that you forget how to act, I forgot.
02:29 We have two new talents in this film, the girl who plays Rekha's daughter. How is she as an actress?
02:37 Oh, when I first saw her, I thought she's okay. And then she did one song,
02:45 she's improving. But then there is a scene in the film which we shot in Mauritius,
02:51 I thought she was simply superb. I thought this girl has got a lot of potential.
02:57 And Samanji has done a very wise decision by selecting this girl. She has delivered some beautiful,
03:03 dramatic scenes in the film. And she's so fresh and young and in songs and dances, she's simply superb.
03:12 If you could just draw a comparison between the other mainstream films that we have now and
03:17 Mother, how is the treatment of the subject of Mother different from the other films that we have now?
03:21 The treatment is, I tell you, it is basically the subject which is different. So, when the subject is different,
03:28 the treatment automatically becomes different. And it is though in the same mold of commercial cinema,
03:36 yet it has got elements of being totally different from what normally films are made. It's not a convention.
03:42 Conventionally, a girl should have one father. Here the three men proclaim to be the father of the child.
03:48 And eventually they say, they tell the girl, though we three are your fathers, your mother is a real father.
03:54 That's a different thing which we must have not seen in Hindi cinema till date.
03:59 What is the character that you play? -One of the fathers. -And how does your character develop in the film?
04:06 Yes, it develops with the girl and the mother. It starts off on a hilarious note how we bump into each other,
04:13 three of us. We don't know each other. We all end up in the same place after 20 years.
04:18 And without knowing each other, we keep discussing, we keep telling each other, I am going to meet my date,
04:23 I am going to meet my girlfriend, not knowing we are meeting the same person.
04:27 And how she handles all of us differently. And that was the best part of the film.
04:32 What is the experience like working again with people like Rakesh Roshan, Randhir Kapoor, coming together?
04:38 Oh, it was fun. It was just a picnic. I just dreamed. I just dreamed and think how and when we shot the film, I don't know.
04:46 It was just like, it looks like we went there out for fun and within 4-5 days we finished the film.
04:53 And then we shot for nearly 60-70 days. And I wish if this film runs, and I pray to God this film runs,
04:59 if this runs, then a lot of people are going to cast us together. And we come in a package deal.
05:03 Either all of us or none of us. -Since you have been in the industry for so many years,
05:08 you have been there to witness the changes that have happened, that have transpired in the industry.
05:12 If you could just talk about what is it like in the 70s and now in the 90s.
05:16 70s, they used to always come to me and used to cast me as a leading man. Now they don't.
05:22 That's a big difference. How do you eliminate that difference? -In the 90s we had a lot of
05:27 actors and actresses who had a background of modelling but now they are entering the acting scene.
05:33 What do you think about that? -The whole thing has changed. In 70s there was no TV.
05:38 Now there is lot of exposure on TV. There is so much entertainment on TV.
05:42 So, you have to compete with that small idiot box. You have to keep it at bay. And you have to do something fantastic to survive.
05:49 Earlier people had no choice. The only entertainment was cinema. Now there are so many other avenues opened.
05:55 How was Savitri Markar as a director? What kind of inputs did you receive from him as a director? -Oh, of course.
06:01 The very fact I am doing the third picture with him speaks volumes about what you are asking me.
06:07 What kind of feelings do you think this movie will invoke in the audiences that need to watch it?
06:12 I can't answer that question all the way but at least I will say that I can promise my audience they will not be disappointed.
06:23 They will come out with a very very big smile on their face. Just watch it. -How important is
06:29 fashion or glamour as an element of the Hindi cinema?
06:34 See, the way we call cinema as a commercial art, same way fashion is part of cinema. Without fashion cinema is not there.
06:42 Without cinema fashion is not there. It's both married together. -What is it like working with the all time beautiful actress Rekha?
06:50 Oh my God! It was beautiful. I have done maximum films with her. She is not only a fabulous actress, a fabulous human being too.
06:59 The music soundtrack of this film, could you just tell us about that? -You see, Mr. Saman Kumar Tuck has got a track record.
07:09 He has always had fabulous music in his films and the songs have been always very different and catchy.
07:15 And when we did the film we knew we are going to work with a very great musical entertainer. And the film's music speaks volumes about it.
07:23 Which is your favourite song? -The song where we all three are together singing with Rekha. The three guys and Rekha.
07:30 And we romancing with her. -Thank you. -Thank you.
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