00:00I think the story's germ came from the fact that you know when you go abroad
00:12you see whether it's the memorial at World Trade Center or anywhere else that
00:17there's a lot of respect given to firefighters and that's when I thought
00:23that there was no film made on firefighters in India and I thought that
00:28it should be interesting to explore and then the deeper you go in the more you
00:33learn and the more you feel the need to tell this story so it's their story
00:40we've tried to tell it as honestly as we can and I think it also is extremely
00:49visually powerful you know their world which is challenging for us as filmmakers
00:56because it's not just telling somebody's story the way the story the drama is
01:00inherent over there but the visual elements and the way as filmmakers you
01:05can actually use all your facets and all your talents and the HODs and the crew
01:14which can actually bring their best to it is what is the challenge and the fun part of it
01:26honestly I mean this time around you know the world was so fascinating you
01:32know that I just wanted to be part of this world yes I mean my character
01:37Samit Sawant yes he's a very colorful you know very you know highly decorated
01:42cop and everything all that apart but I like really wanted to be part of this
01:48because you know it's it's about a representation to firefighters you know
01:52who are who are very very important to our society secondly yes that's that's
02:01that serves like the backdrop of the film but to begin with we are making a
02:07film to entertain people you know so it has to have that kind see you read a
02:13script and then you and then whether you want to be part of it or not you know
02:17there and then you decide so for me it was an entertaining film to be part of
02:21you know it was talking about something really nice you know I like the
02:25character arc you know and something new I could you know show people around this
02:30time so it it was all takes and you know I was again collaborating with Excel
02:35media you know which I've done number of projects with them so it was all I mean
02:40yeses and you know when a name like Rahul sir's come you know you know a
02:44filmmaker is is a sensible one you know you know the intentions are right you
02:50know it's not just to titillate people in a wrong manner but you know to say
02:53something which has some meaning so I think it's the amalgamation of all
02:57these things yeah
03:03yeah hard to say I mean as an audience yes but selfishly as an artist you know
03:15you you're like was I know the people who are making it this is gonna be
03:24something nice and what I am being offered is again very different because
03:29you know this film so this whole I think journey started some
03:38three years back you know when I first time read the script and everything and
03:42and us time pay for me to play a cop you know a mature man and something I was
03:48like it it must be you know something really nice for me to you know explore
03:54so yeah but yeah I like the question I mean I still don't have a particular
03:59answer that you know whether it was the audience in me or the actor but yeah
04:04selfishly I think it must be the actor in me you know want to be part of
04:08I think as an actor you want to play different characters like you said so
04:14but I think every film wants to entertain and this is also an
04:20entertaining film but what are the message what is the message that it's
04:23trying to convey so that was very important nothing has been made on this
04:26so that was something the world is new and plus Rahul sir is making it so again
04:31but sometimes even if you don't in in matters like these in scripts like this
04:36sometimes even if you don't get a part of your like something different that
04:40you want to play but still I think for me like being a part of such an
04:44important film that sends an important message is more important I feel so even
04:47if I'm not able to get a part that is very different I'll still be like to be
04:51a part of this. I have a slightly filmy answer to this but it's a it's an honest
04:56answer I think the human being took over the most because I learned that I'm going
05:04to get educated as a citizen in a new light it was a different world a world
05:10never seen before and of course as the Divendu correctly said that actor gets
05:16greedy when he or she sees something different something unique something
05:21special so all this did happen
05:26I think my character is I think you can young young firefighter young blood and
05:39I'm 24 years old in the film, I'm not in real life but in the film I played a 24 year old
05:44so again I think he belongs to a normal middle class strata of society
05:50say he belongs and I cannot talk about Sayami in my like I mean I have a love
06:00story with the love story with Sayami and my track with her and plus the that's
06:08my personal and collectively as firefighters how we're trying to navigate
06:16the things that are happening in the city so
06:20I think mashaAllah physically I'm fit
06:27What training did you do?
06:29Training with the firefighters like they're going up and down the building
06:35the drills are normal then first time I remember when we went to Odala fire station there was this
06:40place that they have built there that is you know just small small spaces that is
06:47just for their drill you have to go down and it's a proper maze sort of stuff and
06:54the smoke is like a simulation of real life so when I first did that I was like when I
07:04first went in so there's a timer right I was they told me that I am the first one who came
07:09out because I was like I have to get out of this this I came out and they were like you
07:15came out the earliest I said no it's not courage I wanted to save myself
07:19He was the first one
07:25He was the first one
07:27But I'll tell you
07:29What he means to say is that I came first in the race and I was running alone
07:32Okay
07:40Which happened on set for Siami because she's not here and we should talk about her also
07:44There was a scene where all these guys had to go from ground floor to second floor
07:52and their apparatus, mask, uniform is also very heavy, they have to hold ropes and oxygen cylinders
08:02they have to run upstairs with all that
08:08So we had told the production designer to make dummies because there is like 7 pounds, 8 pounds
08:16So we did like 2 takes, 3 takes, 4 takes
08:23Then Siami was running and everyone else wasn't
08:28So I said why are these guys running so slow?
08:31Because you have to show the spurti right?
08:34Then I said what's so difficult?
08:37Then I took one of the guys oxygen cylinder and whoop I went down
08:44So they had forgotten to put the dummy ones
08:48So with the actual one, she is running up 2 floors and about 4 takes
08:56So that just says volumes for her
08:59She didn't have a single word on her face that I'm tired or something
09:03I said you should have told me this
09:05But it was amazing
09:07So that is the dedication which these guys had because they had trained for 8 weeks
09:12All of them, Pratik also, Jeetu also, Jeetu also climbed up
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