00:00Hello, this is Mr. Akshata from D&D.
00:04Hi.
00:05Nice to meet you.
00:06Akshata.
00:07Akshata.
00:08How are you doing?
00:11I have a mic here.
00:13I just love the journey that these two girls had.
00:19It's wonderful, I guess.
00:21I know you've been asked this but I feel like everyone is just so curious about it.
00:25She's a really wonderful person and someone I'm really close to.
00:29While we may not...
00:32And about six months later, maybe eight months later, my kids...
00:37In my head I quit and then I did.
00:41Yeah.
00:42Like La Pata Ladies, for example.
00:44So I'd like to produce a lot more films where I'm not acting.
00:47And be a platform.
00:48It's a film which has a lot of humour.
00:51Unlike Taare Zameen Par, which was very...
00:54And it's kind of...
00:56Were they ahead of their time?
00:57I think they were just at the right time.
01:00That's not how I've done a single film.
01:05I like to...
01:06Mental responsibility as an entertainer or as a creative person is to entertain.
01:10When a person buys a cinema, they should react to it.
01:12I know how I react to it.
01:14I'm hoping that the audience should react in a similar way.
01:17Oh well, it's too early to talk about it.
01:20But it's a film which is, you know...
01:23She's a really wonderful person.
01:25And someone I'm really close to.
01:27And while we may not be husband and wife anymore.
01:30But we're still family.
01:31We're really close.
01:32I really respect her intelligence.
01:35Her creativity.
01:37Her aesthetic.
01:39And just the kind of person she is.
01:42She's such a lovely person.
01:46Because it was in the middle of COVID.
01:48And I was sitting alone and thinking of a lot of things.
01:50And I suddenly felt that I had spent all of my adult life in this magical world of cinema.
01:58And I've perhaps not spent enough time with people I'm really close to.
02:06My family.
02:07My mom.
02:08My kids.
02:09My...
02:10Kiran and Reena.
02:12When I was married to her.
02:14So I felt...
02:15I also was thinking that I would like to use my production hours
02:19as a platform to encourage new talent.
02:22Writers.
02:23Directors.
02:24You know...
02:25Technicians.
02:26Actors.
02:27Who I feel...
02:28Kind of...
02:29Whose sensibility is close to mine.
02:32And they want to tell stories which affect me.
02:36Like Laapata Ladies for example.
02:38So I'd like to produce a lot more films where I'm not acting.
02:41And be a platform for young talent that I believe in.
02:45I think humour is a great way to convey a lot of...
02:48Sometimes difficult and important thoughts and issues.
02:53And it's also fun.
02:55Humour is fun for us to make.
02:57For people to watch.
03:02But humour is not the only genre that I'd like to stick to.
03:07There'll be different kinds of stories that I believe in.
03:11Which I hope to produce.
03:14I like the...
03:15I like...
03:16That...
03:17The story should emerge from the writer.
03:20And then...
03:22As a producer or as an actor I come in at the right time.
03:26When I deserve to.
03:28And when I'm...
03:29You know...
03:30Appropriate for the film.
03:33So I like things to happen organically.
03:35And I also believe that my fundamental responsibility as an entertainer
03:40or as a creative person is to entertain.
03:43I'm usually very relieved if I manage to make a film the way I set out to.
03:48Because sometimes...
03:49You know filmmaking is a very difficult...
03:53Filmmaking is a difficult activity.
03:57Telling a story through so many art forms which come together to form cinema.
04:02It's the youngest art form.
04:03It uses all other previous art forms to tell a story.
04:07So it's a difficult medium.
04:09And...
04:10Complicated and complex.
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