00:00Dadamani never let me feel that he can work better than Uttam Kumar or Uttpal Dutt.
00:06The villain has climbed up.
00:08However tall he is, he will be hungry, thirsty, he will have to go to the kitchen, he will have to go to the bathroom.
00:14He will never come down.
00:15I will catch him then.
00:16Why should I climb up for no reason?
00:17I said, Dadamani, I don't have any answer to this.
00:20Rajesh Khanna, you are playing the role of a pilot.
00:22Why have you kept such long hair?
00:24So, he said, no Dadamani, don't do it.
00:26He said, look, I have cut my hair today because I had to do this role.
00:29So, I must look the character.
00:31I said, Dadamani, what is this?
00:32He said, I understood.
00:33Okay, Shakti, take the shot.
00:34This hair won't be cut.
00:40I met Dadamani in 1947-48.
00:46But I was his fan since childhood.
00:49In the days of college, I used to sing his songs.
00:52I used to try to act like him.
00:54My life's ambition was to become an actor in Film 9.
00:59I didn't know that there were other departments.
01:03Coincidentally, I got to work in Bombay Talkies.
01:06Dadamani was the director of Bombay Talkies.
01:11He bought that concern.
01:14The day I saw Dadamani for the first time, I felt like I was in heaven.
01:18I never thought that I would see Dadamani in flesh and blood.
01:22When I saw him, I was very happy.
01:25After that, I got to work with Dadamani.
01:27We became friends.
01:28He used to treat us like family.
01:31One day, I told him, Dadamani, I am working with Fareenda and Gyanda.
01:38But I am very fond of acting.
01:40Can you give me a role?
01:41He said, okay, you want to act?
01:43Okay, fine.
01:44In a movie, the inspector asks you to wear clothes and come.
01:47You do it.
01:48So, I said.
01:50What was the dialogue?
01:51Follow car number Sachin Sach.
01:52Follow car number Sachin Sach.
01:53In two movies, he kept saying, follow car number Sachin Sach.
01:56I was so tired.
01:57I said, forget about acting.
02:00After that, when I got the chance to make a movie with the inspector,
02:04I went to Dadamani.
02:05Dadamani, will you work with me in this movie as a hero?
02:09He said, yes, I will.
02:10But what is the name of the movie?
02:12I said, the name of the movie is Inspector.
02:14Oh, you want to take revenge on me?
02:16He said, no, it's not like that.
02:18But the character of the hero is that of the inspector.
02:22So, I thought of giving him the name of the inspector.
02:25He said, okay.
02:27I remember that one day,
02:29during the inspection,
02:32one of his cousins, Arun Mukherjee, who he loved a lot,
02:35who was a music director,
02:37passed away.
02:38His funeral was at his house.
02:40That day, I wanted to make a song.
02:43So, I told Dadamani, let's take a day off.
02:45You can attend it.
02:47He said, no, no, no.
02:49He was in the mood.
02:50Let's finish it.
02:51I said, Dadamani, finish it quickly.
02:53There is a lot of work.
02:54He said, it won't finish until tomorrow.
02:56I have worked with a lot of heroes,
02:58a lot of people.
03:00But with Dadamani, I saw that
03:02his dedication to work
03:06was something very powerful.
03:09Until he got that scene a day earlier,
03:11he was not satisfied.
03:13He used to go home and think about that scene.
03:15He used to do some things.
03:17He used to call me in the morning
03:19and say, I have thought about this change.
03:21What do you think?
03:23I said, no, Dadamani, it's good.
03:25He said, no, no, think about it.
03:27It's not like that.
03:29So, I have seen so much dedication
03:31in very few artists.
03:33And even today,
03:35at this age,
03:36the way they work with dedication,
03:38I think very few artists
03:40work with so much dedication.
03:42Other people must also do it.
03:44But his dedication
03:46impressed me a lot.
03:48With Dadamani,
03:50when I started my production,
03:52Horda Bridge,
03:54I took him as a hero.
03:56I remember an incident of Horda Bridge.
03:58After everything was done,
04:00when the climax came,
04:02Biran climbs up Horda Bridge
04:04and Dadamani reaches up
04:06chasing him.
04:08We shot the whole set with
04:10Calcutta Man Duplicate.
04:12Dadamani said, let's shoot.
04:14Maybe he was not in the mood
04:16to shoot that day.
04:18He said, sit with me for a minute.
04:20I said, go ahead.
04:22He said, look, Biran has climbed up.
04:24Horda Bridge is so high.
04:26He will be hungry and thirsty.
04:28He will have to go to the kitchen.
04:30He will have to go to the bathroom.
04:32He will never come down.
04:34I will catch him then.
04:36Why should I climb up?
04:38I said, Dadamani, I don't have
04:40the courage to do this.
04:42Everyone will say,
04:44it feels good.
04:46If you don't go,
04:48he will come down for his natural course.
04:50If you catch him, people will say
04:52that this hero is not good.
04:54I said, okay, let's not shoot today.
04:56We will do it tomorrow.
04:58Actually, he wanted a holiday that day.
05:00Instead of saying that we will do it tomorrow,
05:02he took this as an excuse.
05:04After that, we did not make a movie
05:06with Dadamani for many days.
05:08It happens that when a person
05:10transfers from youth,
05:12I mean, he starts playing
05:14an aged type of role.
05:16There was no such thing in those days.
05:18The first time I thought,
05:20there was a small role in Aradhana
05:22of an officer.
05:24Dadamani said, Dadamani,
05:26there is a small role.
05:28I said, yes, I will do it.
05:30What is the role?
05:32He said, a pilot officer,
05:34a wing commander or something.
05:36Rajesh Khanna was the hero.
05:38Dadamani came.
05:40Dadamani said,
05:42Rajesh Khanna, you are playing a pilot.
05:44Why have you kept such long hair?
05:46Dadamani laughed.
05:48He said, I have cut my hair today
05:50because I had to do this role.
05:52I must look the character.
05:54Dadamani said, what is this?
05:56I said, okay, Shakti, take the shot.
05:58He will not cut his hair.
06:00So that happened.
06:02And the two scenes that he did,
06:04everyone remembered it.
06:06Especially the climax scene
06:08in which he worked.
06:10I think it was my duty
06:12to take Dadamani in that movie.
06:14After that, I made a movie
06:16based on Dadamani.
06:18Anurag.
06:20When I told the story,
06:22Dadamani felt,
06:24why is he making this movie?
06:26It is not going to work.
06:28Still, he said,
06:30why is he making this movie?
06:32I said, will this movie work?
06:34He said, let's see.
06:36Maybe it will work.
06:38I said, okay, the story is good.
06:40But I doubt if it will work.
06:42Anyway, the movie was made.
06:44Dadamani did a fantastic job.
06:46After that,
06:48the movie was made.
06:50After that,
06:52I started making Bengali movies.
06:54There was no role in Amanush
06:56that I could give to Dadamani.
06:58But I made the next movie Anand Ashram.
07:00Dadamani played a very good role in that.
07:02Uttam Kumar was with him.
07:04Utpal Dutt was with him.
07:06Dadamani never made me feel
07:08that he works better than Uttam Kumar
07:10or he can work better than Utpal Dutt.
07:12Whenever he comes on set
07:14and these people work,
07:16he calls them in his make-up room.
07:18Look, I am making a Bengali movie for the first time.
07:20I am working after a long time.
07:22I don't know how to speak Bengali.
07:24You do one thing,
07:26help me.
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