00:00Sir, if I put you on a flying saucer, where would you like to go?
00:03Moon Kothola.
00:04Monday House, Delhi.
00:06Delhi.
00:07Monday House.
00:08NST.
00:09To be honest, I enjoy acting.
00:12But I don't get to act now.
00:14Firstly, I don't have the courage to stand in a theatre.
00:16I think I don't have the courage to act in a cinema.
00:19I enjoy working with Imtiaz.
00:21I enjoy working with Imtiaz the most.
00:24I can't explain my relationship with him.
00:28It's difficult to explain.
00:29It's Anurag.
00:30It's me.
00:31Sometimes it's Banti.
00:32Sometimes it's Banti.
00:33As long as the group is a human group.
00:36As long as we think about each other.
00:38It's not just about music.
00:40There are other bonds as well.
00:41I was given a tagline for you.
00:43A rock star at 62.
00:45I said that actually, for all of us, nothing is impossible.
00:49How does it feel to be a rock star at 62?
00:51Nothing is impossible.
00:52I mean, I was working.
00:53I'm still working.
00:54I'll keep working.
00:55It doesn't matter to me.
00:58I don't care if I'm at 62 or 63.
01:00I know that I'll be at 70 someday.
01:02I know that I'll die someday.
01:04That's why I keep working.
01:06Karma is a big thing.
01:08As I said, once you do something,
01:10you can't get rid of it.
01:12I've done karma before.
01:13I'm earning from it.
01:14I'll earn from it in my next life.
01:17I made this painting when I was 12.
01:22This painting.
01:23Right?
01:24So, I made this.
01:27This was made when I was 12.
01:28This is my sculpture.
01:29I made it with my hands.
01:30This was made when I was 12.
01:32I kept doing it.
01:33I didn't get any reward for it.
01:35I made it.
01:36I read it.
01:37It was exhibited.
01:38I did a lot of things like this in my childhood.
01:42It's spreading today.
01:44I'm getting rewards.
01:45But I don't want to get trapped in these rewards.
01:47As soon as you get trapped in it,
01:49as soon as you start enjoying a lot,
01:51your rock stardom or whatever.
01:53Why are you calling me a rock star again and again?
01:56It's good.
01:57Rock stars are needed.
01:58But you'll release an album.
02:00Why did it take so many years to do this?
02:03When you yourself are saying that
02:05you like these things more than films.
02:07No, no.
02:08In that, time is...
02:10Everything happens at its time.
02:12It didn't happen before.
02:13First, I got Nishant.
02:15Then Rahul.
02:16Then other people.
02:17Then I became a band.
02:18All this was required.
02:19It was a special kind of time.
02:21The time has gone somewhere now.
02:23The time has come.
02:25I'll try to do whatever I can in this time.
02:27It's inappropriate to say that
02:29it didn't happen before.
02:31Whatever had to happen before,
02:33I was acting.
02:34I did Maqbool, Gulal, Gangs of Wasseypur,
02:36Pink, Tamasha.
02:38I liked it a lot.
02:40It was required at that time.
02:42So, I did it.
02:44That's why,
02:46work is not directly proportional
02:48to any age or time.
02:50It happens.
02:52So, it's going on.
02:54Now, Balli Maaran is going on.
02:56What are your thoughts on making a band?
02:58What would you say is the USP of Balli Maaran?
03:00What is the USP?
03:02It's a song that touches the heart.
03:04It's a song that you can hum.
03:06Songs that don't scare you.
03:08Songs from the 60s didn't scare you.
03:10You could dare to sing them.
03:12So, Balli Maaran is a song
03:14that touches the heart.
03:16It's a song that touches the heart.
03:19Balli Maaran doesn't mean to impress anyone.
03:21It's a song that tickles the heart.
03:23It's a socio-political song.
03:25It's a song that makes you snap.
03:27It's a song that makes you move forward.
03:29It doesn't mean to attack anyone.
03:31It's a song that makes you enjoy.
03:33So, in this small life,
03:35giving happiness to five people
03:37is a big thing.
03:39That's our purpose.
03:41What do you enjoy the most?
03:43You are an artist.
03:45You are a poet.
03:48You are a writer.
03:50You are an actor.
03:52Which aspect of your personality?
03:54To be honest, I enjoy acting.
03:56But, I don't get to act.
03:58I don't have the courage to stand in a theatre.
04:00Until you don't act,
04:02you don't enjoy it.
04:04To be honest,
04:06I want to act a lot.
04:08But, I don't think I can act in a cinema.
04:10Why?
04:12There are cuts.
04:14I take the first scene later.
04:17I take the first scene later.
04:19There is a hamper in the emotional graph.
04:21I enjoy acting in a theatre.
04:23But, I don't have the courage to do it in a theatre.
04:25I am very tired.
04:27I have done everything in Delhi.
04:29Whatever was possible in the performances,
04:31I have done it.
04:33So, I am very tired.
04:35But, as you are saying,
04:37we are all saying that our stories are lacking.
04:39There are no films.
04:41What do you actually feel?
04:43We are not intuitive.
04:46They are very intuitive.
04:48They keep asking new ideas.
04:50They don't pay attention to the box office.
04:52The box office becomes automatic.
04:54Malayali cinema is their idol.
04:56Anurag Kashyap watches cinema.
04:58I was with him in Lucknow the other day.
05:00He was talking in Lucknow.
05:02He said,
05:04Piyush bhai,
05:06nobody cares about your box office.
05:08A big star will earn 40-50 lakhs there.
05:10This is a start-up.
05:12This is not a chance to enter the race of a start-up.
05:15Here,
05:17there are 100 crore clubs,
05:19200 crore clubs.
05:21More than that,
05:23the scale has become
05:25which club you are entering.
05:27That's why people have gone mad.
05:29In that,
05:31there is repetition
05:33of ideas.
05:35I really liked Pushpa.
05:37What screenplay?
05:39Commercially speaking, what screenplay?
05:41I don't think
05:43that a screenplay can't be written commercially.
05:45It has been written.
05:47It was a commercial hit.
05:49So why can't we write it?
05:51There is a problem.
05:53There is a lack of ideas.
05:55And we have created the lack of ideas.
05:57We don't want to make a good film.
05:59We want to make an amateur film.
06:01Cinema was an art in 19th century.
06:03In 2000 century,
06:05it has become a blockbuster.
06:07Blockbuster is an art.
06:09This is the difference.
06:12Let's see when they will be shocked.
06:14Nowadays,
06:16an actor is not able to pull a star
06:18on his face.
06:20No matter who the actor is,
06:22the audience doesn't care
06:24whether he looks like a star or not.
06:26Yes, that's right.
06:28The form has given a lot of strength to the actors.
06:30Any size,
06:32any colour, any face,
06:34any height,
06:36an actor is priceless.
06:38Actors are big stars.
06:41Like Ranveer, he is already an actor.
06:43He has the strength to act.
06:45So,
06:47let's do it.
06:49Eventually, only actors will pull the stars.
06:51It's a misunderstanding.
06:53It's not like that.
06:55Actors had their own era.
06:57They still have it.
06:59What do you like about working with Anurag?
07:01What is your tuning with him?
07:03It's good.
07:05It's a good thing.
07:07I can't explain it to you.
07:10It's very difficult to explain.
07:12Anurag is Anurag and I am me.
07:14Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.
07:16When we meet,
07:18we have a cigarette and a cup of coffee.
07:20You go to your home and I will go to mine.
07:22The first time we met in Lucknow,
07:24we sat together for a long time.
07:26We were surprised.
07:28We sat together for a long time.
07:30That's the relationship.
07:32I enjoy working with Imtiaz.
07:34I enjoy working with Imtiaz the most.
07:36What is it?
07:39He is a rock star.
07:41He has full liberty.
07:43He is script bound.
07:45He has full liberty.
07:47That's all.
07:49What is the future of Balli Maharaj?
07:51It will go ahead.
07:53As many songs as possible.
07:55As long as he is in the home,
07:57as long as the group is human.
07:59As long as the group is human.
08:01As long as we think about each other.
08:03It's not just music.
08:05There are other bonds as well.
08:08We have to think about it.
08:10As long as we think about it,
08:12our bond will be strong.
08:14Thank you so much, sir.
08:16If I put you on a plane,
08:18where would you like to go?
08:20Delhi.
08:22NSC.
08:24Thank you so much, sir.
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