00:00So there is no audio-visual reference in the sense that no one else had done this character
00:11whose reference was there.
00:12The videos of Mr. Liaqat on YouTube, he saw the rest, this book was read, so you get to
00:20know this character.
00:21What you have to do with Mr. Jinnah's reaction, he had shaped that character somewhere.
00:29We have been similar in a little physicality, he was bald, so I could not be bald in the
00:42whole show, but I had worn that cap.
00:46Apart from that, the layering of the character was written very well in the script somewhere
00:54and the visual references on YouTube made it clear that his Urdu was very good, his
01:12Urdu was very good, his English was very good, he was educated, he was from a landlord family.
01:19So I tried to capture that dignity and aura and it should be like a statesman.
01:35See, I have been part of all my life, I have been a student of history, I have done my
01:41graduation in history, so the understanding of politics and history has been with me since
01:48childhood.
01:49Wherever I come from, from Bihar, we all prepare for civil services somewhere, so you definitely
01:58touch all these subjects, whether it is international relations, whether it is politics, whether it
02:03is geography, whether it is history, whether it is international history.
02:08So, I was a little concerned with all these characters.
02:12Now, when you show him as an actor, he has his own dignity, you should not disturb him.
02:27See, if you see Freedom at Midnight, it is not a biopic, it is a story about everyone
02:35and the audience has been thrown in the boardroom where the decisions were taken by people
02:40and it is left to the audience to decide who was right and who was wrong.
02:45What we did, we just lived those moments.
03:06So, I think it was more about in those days, the decision were taken impromptu, the decision
03:15were taken because of the things which were happening in the society and that is what
03:20was portrayed in this.
03:21So, difficult aspect was to, as I said, to keep the dignity and do not cross that line.
03:28Because, once you have read the book, once you have read the script, you are completely
03:34dependent on the director who is navigating you through all these things and Nikhil Advani
03:40is best at it.
03:41He never teased his characters because as we say that it is all dignity, it is dignified,
03:48it is written there, it is done there.
03:52It has emotional value, emotional attachment to all the characters.
03:56So, you cannot take liberty of putting your own thinking or your own feelings into the
04:02character.
04:03So, once those things are not there, you just live the script and you just maintain that
04:10that if I am playing, you know, if I am Liaqat, I am just Liaqat in the situation, I am Liaqat
04:16and how Liaqat would have reacted in that situation, that was that little in-depth knowledge
04:22about the history and that's all we try to portray.
04:36See, what happens is that when you are doing such a character, the biggest difficulty is
04:44that your love, your studies, your education, it puts more love, less love, equal love towards
04:51some historical figure, but when you do such a character, then you move away from that
04:56love.
04:57Because somewhere in it, you have a non-biased approach to it, you have a non-biased approach
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