00:00Did you take a long time to decide on Karthik Aryan to take on such an iconic film?
00:05No, no, I took one second because when I saw his film Pyar Ka Panchrama, I have a habit
00:14that when I see people's work and I like it, I look for their phone numbers and call them
00:20myself. I think I should do it. Appreciation.
00:23Yes, so I praised Karthik a lot and he was very happy. So that equation was there since
00:29then. After that, I was shooting in London and he was shooting for some other film and
00:34we were staying in the same hotel. So when we used to go for shooting, we used to meet
00:39at night. So, I don't know, I always liked Karthik. And when I was told that Karthik,
00:48I said, why not? I didn't take a single second.
00:51So, it was suggested by the producers?
00:53Yes, I was going to do a film with Karthik. So, he knew that Aneez is a good twin with
01:02Karthik and Aneez likes him a lot and there won't be any problem. So, he said, let's
01:07take Karthik. I said, yeah, fantastic. Next time he came in my office, we met and it was
01:12a lovely film. I enjoyed it a lot.
01:14Lovely.
01:15And I think for Karthik, his life has become a very important film.
01:22Ehem matlab, it was the most important film of his career so far.
01:27Yes.
01:28Yeah, I mean, because you know, especially, wo jo mahaul thi na.
01:31Bahut kharab mahaul tha, filme hi nahi chal rahi thi and I'll be very honest, even I was
01:38very scared, ke yaar, kya hoga?
01:40Aage peche sab, everything was flopping.
01:42Logon ne kehna shuru kar diya tha, yeh log ab ghar se nikal ke theatre mein nahi jayenge.
01:46Exactly, yeh 2022 mein.
01:48Haan, ab wo OTT pe hi dekhenge.
01:50OTT is a great platform aur bada khusrat kaam chal raha hai uspe aur maa khud bhi bahut
01:55dekha hun. Matlab, maine pandemic mein jitni series aur jo dekha hai, mujhe lagta hai,
02:00agar OTT nahi hota tha, main paagal hi ho jata hoon. Itna hai ab.
02:04Lekin, film ka ek jo parda hota hai, ek jo bada parda pe logon ke saath baith ke film
02:09dekhne ka jaadu hota hai. Wo jaadu jo alag hota hai aur logon ne kehna shuru kar diya
02:14tha, ab toh log filmon mein, film theatres mein nahi dekhenge. We were also very scared
02:19because jab aap 2-3 saal apni zindagi ke ek film ko dete hain, itni mainat karte hain,
02:24toh naturally iska result bahut maini karte hain. Aur main kabhi yeh nahi kaunga ki mere
02:29liye ek film banana important hai. Aur iske baad main nahi fikar karta hoon, film chalti
02:33hai, nahi chalti hai, no. Agar main aisa kaunga, no. Mujhe fikar hoti hai. Mujhe lagta hai
02:38ki yaar logon ko bahut umeede hain aur wo umeede pe hume utarna chahiye. Aur meri bahut
02:44khushi hoti hai mujhe film chalti hai toh aur nahi chalti hai toh. Yes, main bahut disturbed
02:49hota hoon. Yeh alag baat hai ki main bahut jaldi uss cheez ko bhool ho jaata hoon. Lekin
02:53yes, takleef hoti hai. Lekin jab aap bahut mainat karte hain kisi cheez par aur uska
02:58jab nahi hota hain, toh mujhe lagta hai ki yaar yeh kya hua.
03:01Toh 2022 mein, we had a lot of films that flopped. Big films jisme bahut umeede the.
03:07Jaise Vikram Vedha, even Brahmastra was disappointing. Then you had big films.
03:13Jayesh Bhai, Sambar, Prithviraj, Circus, kitni film hai. You know, lots of films came and
03:20just dropped, dropped, dropped, dropped, dropped. So, uss waqt jab aapki bhool bhuley aayi, I
03:25think only Kashmir Files and Drishyam 2 had done well in that area. So, aapki jo film
03:32that was commercial, big film. I mean, how do you think it did? You know, it just stood
03:39there and it was Karthik Aryan solo. You know, it didn't have any, it had a franchise and
03:46it had Karthik Aryan solo. And that also with a big question mark because people were used
03:51to Akshay Kumar, they were used to Manjulika, Vidya Balan, they were used to that, you know
03:58all that. So, you know, you just surprised everybody.
04:03Nahi, nahi, Allah has guided me.
04:05But what did you feel? How did you feel?
04:07I was very, very happy and relieved actually because logon ne toh khari, yahan tak hamare
04:12producers aur sabko bola, ki aap logon ne film hain bachali, toh mene kahi aisi baate
04:15mat kariye. Film hain bohot baddi hai aur uska bohot chhota sa hissa hai. Haan, yeh aap
04:20zarur keh sakte hain, ke iss film ko jab logon ne itna pyaar diya aur itni baddi hit hui,
04:26toh ek sabne umeed jagi, ke aisa nahi hai logon ne theatre me aana bandh kar diya.
04:32It proved that.
04:34Yeh ek baat mujhe lagta hai, iss film ke saath hamishe jodi rahegi, ke logon ki umeede jo
04:40hai, iss film ne baadi. Ke nahi aisa nahi hai ki theatre me nahi aayenge, agar aapne
04:44achche film banayenge, logon aayenge. Aur jo logon ne pyaar diya, toh I was very happy
04:49and very happy and mujhe laga ki nahi yaar, humne ek jo mehnat kiye uska phul mila hai
04:55aur bohot achha phul mila hai.
04:57Achha phul mila hai, yes, yes.
04:58Mujhe kahin zyada, bohot zyada khush Karthik tha because it was very very important film
05:03for Karthik, for Murad bhai, for everybody I think, I mean, everybody.
05:08What is it about Karthik that you like repeating?
05:12Karthik, number one, I feel, mere liye toh aasaan hai uske saath kaam karna. Mujhe achcha
05:18lagta hai ki jahaan par aasaani se kaam ho, maine aaj tak jeene logon saath kaam kiya
05:22aur jab aar repeat kiya, Nana Patekar, Nana Patekar saab ke saath maine teen filmyenge.
05:26And he's supposed to be a little sunky.
05:28Aisa kehate hain log, lekin mujhe lagta hai ki agar unhe yeh clarity hai ki nahi yeh film
05:34jo main kar raha hoon, iske andar main jo ismein doob chuka hoon, shayad mujhe thoda 5% zyada
05:40yeh insaan jaanta hai, jaise director kehate hain, toh he is, he's all right.
05:43Yeah, yeah. Toh mujhe lagta hai ek actor ko jab yeh aisaas ho jata hai, yeh mehsoos hota
05:49hai ki nahi bhai, we are in a safe hand aur yeh achchi film bana raha hai, mere character
05:53pe acha kaam kar raha hai, toh itni problem nahi hoti hai, maine Nana ji ke saath kaam
05:56kiya, maine pata nahi 10-12 filmon mein kaam kiya, Anil ji ke saath, itne achchi actor,
06:00itne bade actor, but koi taklif nahi hoti aur nahi sir aisa nahi aisa karte hain, acha
06:04thek hai, aisa nahi aisa karte hain, okay thek hai. Toh Akshay ji ke saath kaam kiya,
06:08Salman bhai ke saath kaam kiya, kitne logon ke saath, matlab takreeban bahot logon hoon
06:12ki jinn ke saath maine kaam kiya, kuch hi bachi hoon ki jinn ke saath kaam nahi kiya,
06:16toh Kartik jo hai, wo samajhdaar actor hai, I feel, wo samajhdaar hai, samajhdaar, ji,
06:20usse pata hai ki iss scene ki kya requirement hai, aur usse kuch kahein toh sunta hai, samajhta
06:26hai, and iska ek bahot bada plus point aapko bataao, Kartik ka, he is very hard working
06:33guy, bahot meinat karta hai, wo din, raat laga rhta hai, toh wo jazba hai, agar itni
06:39aap mehnat kar rahe hain, toh uparwala aapko phul dehega.
06:42What is, what is, is it his emotive acting, is it his dialogue delivery, is it his dancing,
06:49what is it?
06:50I think everything, jaise haath dance ki jo baat aati hai, toh abhi jo film ke andar,
06:54usne aakhari gaana kiya hai, itni mehnat ki, ab dekhiye logon ko kitna pasand aaya,
06:58dahaan tak comedy ka taluka, usne jo scenes ki hai, comedy pe logon ko pasand aaya,
07:02toh I think, agar, jo the climax jo tha, it was very new and very different for him,
07:07usne kabhi is tarah ka nahi kiya tha, ki wo possess, ab wo jis tarah kiya, usne, jis
07:12tarah humne poora shoot kiya, jis tarah samjhaya, jis tarah bola, jis tarah usne react kiya,
07:16I think, he is a director's actor, if director's knows ki bhai kya karna hai, aur uske tuning
07:23agar uske saath hai, toh he will do a great job.
07:25That's true.
07:26So, you mentioned that you were not, when a film doesn't do well, you feel bad about
07:31it.
07:32Actually, anybody will feel bad.
07:33So, did you feel bad when Welcome Back did not do so well?
07:36I will not say ki Welcome Back chali nahi hogi, kam chali humari ummi se.
07:41Because, Welcome was a big, big hit.
07:43Nahi, Welcome ke mukaable, agar aap bahat kahenge, toh aap yeh kah sakte hain, ki ab
07:48hi kam chaliye, but aap dikhiye, ki uske teen din ka, jo beginning ka, jo uske collections
07:54the, wo us waqt se pehle kabhi, John Abraham ki film ke nahi aaya tha, 50-55 crore rupiah,
07:59beginning ke teen din me tha, aur mujhe lagta hai ki 100-125 crore, jo film banati hai,
08:04haan, humari ummi thi 200 ki, wo alag baat hai, lekin, main aaj bhi feel karta hoon,
08:09ki usme, bada achha film tha, Nana ji bahut achhe the, mujhe aaj bhi kitne log hote hain,
08:16jo Welcome Back ke liye mujhe phone karte hain, aur kehte hain, mujhe lagta hai, John
08:20was very good in that film, toh mere nazi mujhe kuch dukh nahi hua tha, achhi lagi mujhe
08:24film, bahut maza aaya logon ko, aur jo bhi humne paise lagaye the, usko barabar humne
08:30use kiya, and film kaamiya pe.
08:33So, you're not disappointed with Welcome Back?
08:34No, no, not at all.
08:35You don't think you went wrong in that?
08:37No, no, no.
08:38Main itna zarur wrong hoon ki, jo pehli film thi, Welcome, wo bahut kamaal thi, wo bahut
08:44alag thi, shaad mein, bahut khush tha, lag mood mein film banaye thi, kabhi kabhi kya
08:49hota hai ki, jis mood mein film bana rahe hain, mujhe aksar, mujhe lagta hai, ki main
08:54toh hameshe kehta bhi hoon, ki yaar, mere set pe aap dekhiye, kabhi aayiye, bilkul picnic
08:59hota hai, koi tension nahi hoti hai, aur log bahut khas rahe hote hain, khush rahe
09:03hote hain, aur bahut sukoon se kaam karte hain.
09:06Toh, Welcome mein jab humare Ghaffar bhai was a very big producer of, apna, Feroz bhai
09:12ki father, wo jab aaye, aur unhe dekha ki Feroz Khan sahab bhi hain, Nana sahab bhi hain,
09:17Anil ji, aur apna Akshay ji, aur Katrina, Mallika.
09:21Mallika Sharma.
09:23And they were sitting, and they were having a great time, they were laughing, they were
09:28chatting, toh mujhe unhone toh bila, yaar Anil ji, yeh atmosphere, maine barso pehle
09:33Manmohan D'Souza ji ke set pe dekha tha, and aaj, aapke hain, toh maini badi khushi,
09:39mein bola, achha itni senior hain, hum itni respect karte hain, Ghaffar bhai se, Ghaffar
09:43bhai ne bahut kaam kiya hain, Manmohan D'Souza sahab ke set, main bahut bada fan raha hoon,
09:47Manmohan D'Souza ji, ki maini unke liek film bhi likhi thi, Diwan-e-Mustafa.
09:51Right.
09:52Toh, mujhe bade khushi hui, aur main bola, kya baat, bole, haan yaar, koi tension nahi
09:56hai, yeh toh main atmosphere, dekhna bhuli gaya, toh main jahaan jaahan hai, toh badi
09:59tension rehti hai.
10:00Right.
10:01Yeh toh actor hoon, toh bhi kuch ajeeb maahol hota hai.
10:03Toh mujhe lagta hai, uss maahol mein film banana.
10:05Toh main, koshish yeh hi karta hoon, ki jab film release hoon, uske 10, 15, 20, 25 saal
10:10baad bhi, usse judeve logon ko, jab uss film ka zikr karna pade, yaar jab zikr aaye, toh
10:15unke chair pe muska out ho, kya nahi, ek bahut achi journey thi.
10:18Mujhe lagta hai, Welcome Back ki journey jo thi, wo, it was not utni achi, jo pehli zungi
10:24thi.
10:25Oh, okay.
10:26And, that was very important for, at least for me.
10:29Mere jaisi insaan, jo bahut khush hokar, aur bahut mood mein kaam karne wale log hain
10:35unki agar acha atmosphere ho, toh we sometimes do wonders.
10:40Yes.
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