What Did Manoj Bajpayee Reveal About RGV, Road Films And His Co-Stars Vivek Oberoi & Antara Mali?

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Discover the untold stories behind 'Road' and delve into Manoj Bajpayee's personal journey with Lehren's flashback interview on his 55th birthday. Candid reflections await on co-stars Vivek Oberoi, Antara Mali, and more.

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00:00 I found it quite exciting because this is the kind of film which has never been done.

00:06 This is the kind of experiment which nobody dared to do.

00:09 If you are going through some kind of confusion, some kind of conflict in getting the scene

00:13 right, so I would say that if I get a chance to direct a film, I pray to God that please

00:20 get me Mr. Ram Gopal Armar too.

00:22 When you think of road, when you think of journey, when you think of travelling, you

00:26 never know which vehicle you will meet, which person you will meet and which speed breaker

00:32 you will meet.

00:33 So, drive carefully.

00:34 I have taken a break of seven months because somewhere I was bored of doing this, we are

00:52 bored of acting every day and I want to take a break also and at the same time I was not

00:58 getting offers which were exciting.

01:01 So, I was in Delhi for some time, I was in my village for some time, in Bombay for some

01:07 time but not interacting much with the industry and at the same time some were waiting for

01:12 the right projects to come to me and it suddenly so happened that it was worth waiting.

01:21 What happened, Ramu gave me a call and he asked me to meet him and when I met him, he

01:28 narrated me this story, the screenplay of the film and I found it quite exciting because

01:35 this is the film, this is the kind of film which has never been done.

01:39 This is the kind of experiment which nobody dared to do or nobody thought of doing it.

01:44 It has thrill all the time, it has humour all the time, it has romance all the time.

01:51 At the same time, it is a very unique film, very strange kind of experiment but still

01:57 it has all the elements of mainstream.

02:01 If you ask any actor to give you the story of the film, it is very short because it is

02:10 a film of happenings, happenings are there but the storyline will be very short.

02:17 If I tell you that it is about a boy and a girl and they are on a journey and a person

02:26 takes a lift and the roller coaster happens and the thrill happens.

02:34 So it is a very short storyline you will come to hear but only thing is we try to explore

02:43 the happenings, the mood of the person who has taken the lift, the interaction of the

02:49 person who has taken the lift, the interaction with the girl is the journey of the relationship

02:54 which happens on the road and that is how we reach the climax.

03:01 So it is about audience exploring this person, the girl exploring the person and the boy

03:08 exploring the stranger.

03:10 It is about exploration in journey because when you are driving to Pune or you are driving

03:19 to Jaipur from Delhi or if you are driving to Manali from Delhi, you keep meeting people

03:27 whom you don't know and their reactions, their behavioural pattern is completely different

03:33 from each other.

03:36 So it is a film of happenings, it is a film of exploration, it is a film of relationship

03:42 which happens on the road and nowhere else.

03:46 Character which I have played is completely unpredictable.

03:52 He comes from a segment of the society which is not acceptable to normal people but he

03:59 is a very normal guy.

04:01 He is stylish, he doesn't get excited so easily, he has the ability to keep you in good humour,

04:09 he is a romantic, he is an emotional person.

04:13 Yes he has some odds and those odds are very irritating, sometimes very frightening, sometimes

04:20 very exciting and you find him quite an interesting person in the beginning because he is somebody

04:28 who doesn't let you get bored of journey.

04:32 He is somebody who can keep you in good humour all the time.

04:36 So yes it has its good and bad points.

04:40 Rajat, I know him since a long time.

04:49 Much before Pyar Tune Kya Kiya, we used to party together and we always thought of making

04:56 a film with each other.

04:57 But I never thought that Mr. Ram Gopal Varma would get impressed with him and give him

05:00 Pyar Tune Kya Kiya.

05:04 From Pyar Tune Kya Kiya to Road I would say it is an amazing leap in his growth.

05:09 He improved quite a lot as a director.

05:12 He proved himself in Pyar Tune Kya Kiya itself but Road is a very difficult movie to make

05:19 and then you have a producer who is known for his creative genius, Mr. Ram Gopal Varma.

05:26 So definitely you will be given complete freedom and liberty from his side as a creative person

05:35 and as a producer.

05:36 At the same time you have this added advantage that his contribution will be immense.

05:44 You will always be guarded by him.

05:46 He is there to support you, to back you up if you are going through some kind of confusion,

05:51 some kind of conflict in getting the scene right.

05:54 So I would say that if I get a chance to direct a film, I will pray that I get a producer

06:00 like him.

06:01 I hope, I pray to God that please get me Mr. Ram Gopal Varma to produce my film so that

06:09 I will be guarded completely.

06:10 He will be there to make sure that the film goes on the right track, goes on the right

06:17 road if you look at it.

06:19 Considering that you are living in Andhra, how did you meet Mr. Ram Gopal Varma?

06:27 Andhra I have done a Telugu film which Ramu himself has directed right after Satya.

06:34 We shot the film in 55-60 days and we were somewhere in Andhra Pradesh, in some village

06:40 together.

06:42 So we were quite parallel with each other.

06:44 There was no need to know each other.

06:47 We already known each other in the past.

06:49 We worked quite well in that film, on screen and off screen.

06:56 And she is a fabulous actress.

06:59 She has great body language.

07:01 She grasps the character very easily.

07:06 She is somewhere I would say, she is very intelligent.

07:09 She doesn't let you know that she got the character right and she surprises you on the

07:13 set.

07:14 Vivek, I have seen his film Company.

07:18 And this film has released, this film has happened much before the Company's release.

07:26 For me it was like knowing the person whom Ramu admired quite a lot.

07:33 And I always had complete trust in Ramu's judgement.

07:37 If his judgement about me was right, I didn't have any reason not to trust his judgement

07:45 about Vivek.

07:47 And I found him a very, very exciting actor.

07:53 His approach is right.

07:54 His focus is right.

07:55 He is too sincere a person as an actor.

08:02 And his ability to get the character is right.

08:07 I think if he just continues like this, I won't be surprised if he achieves what he

08:14 wants to achieve.

08:15 What type of music is there in Road?

08:16 The title suggests pacing music or that type of music?

08:24 Road doesn't mean pace.

08:26 Road means obstacle and yes, pace definitely.

08:31 Obstacles most of the time.

08:33 It means, it has a very unpredictable nature attached with it.

08:44 And when you talk, when you think of Road, when you think of journey, when you think

08:48 of travelling, you never know which vehicle you will meet, which person you will meet

08:54 and which speed breaker you will meet.

08:57 So drive carefully.

09:03 I like Sandesh's album which was released quite a long back, Piya Basanti Re.

09:10 There's a certain amount of classical training he shows and he shows quite a lot of possibility

09:17 as a music director.

09:23 And in this film he got immense possibility to explore different, different kind of music

09:32 because this film is unpredictable.

09:33 So music had to be unpredictable.

09:37 And every song is completely different from the other song because if I am singing definitely

09:45 my character will sing a different way and the lines will be different and composition

09:51 will be different.

09:52 If Vivekananda is singing, their lines and their composition will be different.

09:57 If there is a background song, then definitely it will be a different kind of composition.

10:05 Ramu has thrown quite a big challenge, quite a tough challenge on Sandesh and I think he

10:10 has done quite a great job.

10:12 I love two, three songs in this film.

10:15 I like the title song which is sung by Gary Loyer, "Road ke har mod pe, dekho toh gaur

10:23 se".

10:24 I love the song.

10:25 It has the, it has the quality of blue music.

10:30 It haunts you.

10:31 It has the haunting nature.

10:34 And then I love Vivekananda's song, "Makmali".

10:38 I love that song which is coming on television.

10:43 And then definitely I like my song, it's "Pehli Nazar Mein Dar Gayi Thi" which is written

10:49 by Makrandesh Pandey, my friend.

10:50 He is from theatre.

10:52 For the first time he has written a song for a film.

10:56 And then there is one number which is, which is completely Rajasthani, "Nikal Le Bhaiye".

11:06 I feel people, that song will get people dancing and I'm quite sure about it.

11:13 This is Manoj Bajpayee.

11:14 You're watching me on Lehren.

11:15 Perfect?

11:16 Okay, sir.

11:17 Thank you very much.

11:19 Thank you.

11:20 Thank you very much.

11:20 Thank you.

11:25 you

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