00:00In fact, as an actor, you know, when I lead with responsibility, I function better.
00:10So, because it was such a big responsibility, I felt such a big challenge.
00:15That's why I felt that this should be my next step.
00:18I remember I was reading a lot of scripts after Jubilee and somehow he saw me as Nehru and he called me at the right time.
00:27I was also deciding to do this and that.
00:29And I met him, I read the script and I was like, I mean...
00:33And again, I have said this before, I still remember the third episode, I had started reading and I knew inside my heart that this is my next move.
00:43There is no way back.
00:45As far as responsibilities are concerned, you know, again, my quest was to understand that, you know,
00:52there are some people who, what do they have inside them?
00:56What kind of energy do they have inside them, you know?
00:59That a whole country, I mean, 35 crore people at that time and, you know, illiteracy rate, 90 something percent.
01:09No industries and they have been under rule.
01:12You know, they have lived in a shock and maybe they don't even understand.
01:16You know, it's a habit.
01:17When we are going to England, people must be thinking, what should we do now?
01:21Let's raise slogans of freedom, but what should we do?
01:23Where should we go? There is no one to tell us where to go.
01:27To take that decision, for that, you know, and when I was doing their research,
01:32at that time a person was foreseeing future.
01:37Agriculture, he understood, was the backbone of the country.
01:42Scientific research he promoted.
01:45The rocket science institutes, the preamble of constitution.
01:50Can you imagine the bandwidth of the mind of that human being?
01:55How do you not respect that trait the most?
02:01There's an incredible story, which I keep telling you.
02:05I wish I had put it into there.
02:08Why did you tell it later?
02:09No, because what you were saying, it was very difficult for us to imagine
02:15that there would be somebody playing Nehru in today's whatever.
02:21So, I think there's a story where I read where Nehru ji was coming,
02:27Nehru ji was coming out of the parliament.
02:29The old woman caught him, caught him with a collar.
02:32The country got freedom, what did the old woman get?
02:35He looked at her and he said,
02:37that the prime minister doesn't know how to cut with a collar.
02:42Here are the same people, three people over here who have played, right?
02:46Plus Ambedkar and plus the members who drafted the constitution,
02:49who have given you freedom to criticize them.
02:56Understand?
02:58What is the pillar of democracy?
03:00The pillar of democracy is that you can stand up and ask a question.
03:04That you made a mistake.
03:06Correct.
03:07I wanted you to do this.
03:10Right?
03:11Nehru went to jail for 9 years.
03:14Sardar went for 2 years.
03:16Maulana went for 12 years.
03:18So that you can, in 2024, stand up and say that you made a mistake.
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