Bollywood's Anil Kapoor and John Abraham talk 'Welcome Back' in Dubai

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Bollywood gentlemen Anil Kapoor and John Abraham back in Dubai for Diff 2014. John Abraham and Anil Kapoor talk about the movie Welcome Back. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00Welcome Back is a, I believe it's a summer blockbuster film.

00:19It's an unapologetic comedy, it's simple, sweet.

00:23I was a very, very, very big fan of the first part because it was so simple, so sweet and

00:32you actually laughed, you know.

00:35And it was a film that really didn't try to be funny but was so funny situationally.

00:41And when I heard the script for the second part, I laughed.

00:44I laughed my heart out and I had tears in my eyes laughing when I heard the script and

00:49that's why I did it.

00:50When we started the film, we had a lot of, it was not as the way it's looking now where

00:56you know, there's films being made and you know, it's looking great and looking good.

01:00It was very, yeh banegi ki nahi banegi, it will be made or it won't be made, so it was

01:05always that and there were things which were not coming together and you know, in terms

01:10of cast, in terms of funds, everything.

01:13And everything just fell together because the intention was that let's do it, let's

01:18do it.

01:19It will happen.

01:21If you're talking about as a producer, because of distribution reality, it's a great marketing

01:27move to get it to a festival.

01:28Whether it fits in because there's a certain perception that people have about a typical

01:33blockbuster mainstream film fitting into something that's very, you know, ideological in terms

01:40of the kind of films that are shown here that are very different, yeah, that's a question

01:45that you could ask anyone around because most films, at least from India, that go to festivals

01:50don't make money, commercially.

01:53It's as simple as that.

01:54So we hope that Welcome changes our trend by making a lot of money.

01:57All the festivals are changing, it's not about art films and artistic films, this is film,

02:02I think it's more difficult sometimes to make these kind of films which are all about, you

02:06know, entertainment and fun and glossy and you know, and why not, you know, it's a celebration

02:14of cinema, so even this is cinema in its own way, you can't look down upon it, you know,

02:20you have to enjoy it and we've had a lot of fun doing this film and you can't take, Welcome

02:24is not a kind of film you should take it seriously.

02:26It's not a great film, it's not an intellectual film, it's a film that you buy the ticket,

02:30come with your family, buy a few popcorns, samosas, come and sit down, have a few laughs,

02:37enjoy and go to sleep.

02:39Forget all your fears, the stress, what you have and you'll forget, genuinely you'll forget

02:42about it and you can see it again and again.

02:47I enjoyed the script.

02:48I've heard in the past, I've refused a lot of films that probably had Blockbuster written

02:55over them but I chose not to do them.

02:57Welcome Back, I genuinely enjoyed because, you know, when you're down and out and you're

03:01sad, the first thing you want to do is go and watch a genuinely funny film and I hope

03:06to believe, I hope to believe that Welcome Back is that film.

03:09Comedy is a serious business, you know, it's a serious business, it's not something which,

03:15you know, comes to everybody.

03:18Either you have it or you don't have it.

03:20A dramatic role, a serious role, you can still make an actor, you know, look good, look great

03:25with lighting and low angles and, you know, certain style and all, you can make them.

03:30But you can't make an actor who doesn't know how to do it.

03:33You can't, no director can make him do also comedy.

03:35Okay.

03:36Yeah.

03:37It has to be me.

03:38It's either, yeah, yeah.

03:39It is either, it's a writing, first and foremost is the writing.

03:43Comedy is all about writing.

03:44The writing has to be and then the right casting.

03:47So, if the writing is perfect, correct, because, you know, writing humour is very, very difficult

03:52and once you write it and then you have the right casting, you suit the role and it just

03:56happens very organically.

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