00:00What, that sounds a bit harsh, accident of birth, it's like me saying, did you go and
00:20apply for the job or you were given it because you were born, it's not as simple and shocking
00:25as that. But yes, if you do ask me that directly, I can say doing five films as an actor on
00:32my own and being my father's son and being very proud about it, I felt it's the correct
00:37time to collaborate with him. And yes, accidental, as you may call it, my birth, I'm very, very
00:44proud to be affiliated with the home production and it's come at a congenial time for both
00:48of us as family members who would like to affiliate with one another. And yeah, I guess
00:53also because I am an actor, it does make sense that I should act in the film that he's producing.
01:03Well, because if I'd done it at my first, you would have definitely only asked me this
01:06question, is it because you're just born in the family that you're being given this film?
01:12So no, it was a conscious effort, why play to the rules when you can be the exception?
01:18I've always been loved by the home production people, all the people involved in the production.
01:29So that never changed. If you do your job well, you will always get the respect that
01:33you deserve. You cannot command it, you have to demand it. And I hope as an actor, that
01:38merit that they've given me to give me that respect, I hope I deserve it because they've
01:41really been very kind, all of them.
01:48I don't blame them.
01:55Yeah, I somehow always manage to find myself in this situation where good guy, bad guy,
02:02any guy is just after me. It's fun, I guess. And no, I mean the kind of story that it is,
02:10the kind of scenario, the kind of setting that it is, Amit has given it a very fresh
02:16approach, even though it may seem like what you're saying, repeated. Amit has turned it
02:24around with his direction. He's a fantastic director and when you watch the film, you
02:29know that difference.
02:37His misdeeds are anyway known to the audience. It will be known to everybody that he's a
02:43bad guy, he's a murderer, he's a killer. But there are other aspects to the killer which
02:51is far more endearing, which I wanted to create.
03:01My take is, I guess, each film comes with its own merits. If somebody likes it, great.
03:06As long as you're a paying member of the audience, you have a right to an opinion.
03:10At the end of the day, they are just doing their job. And to give so much attention to
03:18their words and not to the words that audience is watching is also somewhere unfair on our part.
03:25It's okay to have an opinion but it's not okay to enforce that opinion on someone.
03:29And I feel that today when you go and see any sport, like for instance cricket, a person
03:39only becomes a commentator when he's played the sport. That's when he can comment on the
03:45sport, that's when he can give his opinion. And it's credible. Here we're taking on the
03:50opinions of people who have not made a film ever.
03:54Or arguably never been on a film set.
03:56Or never been on a film set even.
03:57That's another catch.
03:58Yeah, so I don't know how seriously we should be taking that.
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