It takes guts to make a Bollywood film on a sobering topic like COVID-19 crisis in India in black and white, but director Anubhav Sinha took that unconventional leap of stripping his film off colour in ‘Bheed’, out in the UAE cinemas on March 24.
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00:00It's a film made by people that love each other, it's a film made by people that love cinema
00:06and hopefully that'll translate with the audiences as well.
00:11It's not an easy watch, was it as difficult for you actors as well not to be overly invested?
00:17Once we are on set and we're in front of the camera then you of course don't think about how
00:20are you going to don't give your 100% because it might you know have kind of an effect on your
00:26mental health. You are fully there, you're reacting to the situation in the situation
00:31but the kind the way Anwar sir shoots is like he keeps the set very light you know so once you get
00:36out of the scene he would cheer you up, he would get an environment where you're just you know
00:43joking around and then cracking some stupid jokes so that it doesn't really have that kind of an
00:48impact you know on you personally but I think all the actors in the film especially in this
00:53film are very responsible and very experienced actors so they all understood their responsibility
00:58towards the material that was given to us.
01:01As Raj rightly said that you know when you take on a project like this there is a certain amount
01:05of responsibility on you as a performer to make sure that everything that the text that's written
01:11your director's vision you do utmost justice to you know so the harshness of it, the heaviness
01:18of it is something we embrace you know in fact us as actors you know and I can say that for Raj's
01:25work because of his body of work I can say that for sure that you know we kind of thrive when we
01:30get material like the material we got in Veer. You don't often get parts where you kind of get to
01:37break the boundaries that you've created for yourself or you know be a part of stories that
01:41are disruptive and Veer is all of that and yes you know fortunately for us this ship was led by
01:48somebody like Anubhav Sinha who is extremely sensitive towards his actors you know he is
01:53he's an actor's director he does create an environment for you which is safe which is secure
01:58you feel like okay even if I'm going through something I have people that I can go and share
02:05that instance with so all in all it was a very, very memorable journey it was it's a film made by
02:12people that love each other, it's a film made by people that love cinema and hopefully that'll
02:18translate with the audiences as well.
02:20Did you have any reservations about taking on the role because at the end of the day
02:24this is also a movie that talks about perhaps the system in place in India and how we dealt with a crisis?
02:31No, actually once you see the film you'll realize actually it talks about a lot many things and not
02:36that it actually talks about how we as humans came together in those trying times and how we
02:43all are so different from each other and how we react to situations differently as our own you
02:49know prejudices or our upbringing so I think it talks about us a lot many things apart from what
02:54you just said yeah.
02:55Was it difficult to pull off those emotionally charged sequences?
02:59It gives me a high whenever I do a scene like that I think as an actor that's what you crave for
03:04you know it should be as challenging it should be as exciting so whenever I get a typical scene
03:09that gives me way more high than anything.
03:12And was this a master class for you Bhoomi as well such talented actors in this?
03:17Oh absolutely I feel like as performers you're constantly looking forward to working with
03:23co-actors that up your performance as well you know life as an artist was all about learning
03:28and I could say that proudly that there was a lot of learning on this set for sure like you know to
03:34have the likes of Pankaj sir, Ashutosh Rana, Virendra Saxena you know Aditya Sivastava, Kritika, Diya
03:41I mean it was such a packed group of people that were working together towards this one motive
03:47about you know trying to make this film the best that they can so I think I walked out
03:54very, very inspired for sure.
03:56Do you think this movie kind of helped you explore yourself as an actor?
04:01I think it's a once in a lifetime opportunity that you get to be a part of something which
04:06is black and white which is so artistic I feel so I think we all are very fortunate that we can
04:10say after 10 years that you know we have done a film which is black and white because we've all
04:14seen a senior actress doing those black and white films and it looks there's something
04:19very unique about it I as it's very orgasmic actually to just see yourself in black and
04:26white frame on a big screen.
04:27I feel it's very liberating and it's also extremely challenging because as you rightly
04:31said there are no distractions you know it is just you, your eyes do most of the talking
04:37you know and you're just naked so the truth of how good a performer you are definitely
04:42comes out then so I feel like for any performer this definitely is once is an opportunity
04:48that happens once in a lifetime I don't see myself doing a black and white film
04:53I wouldn't say never but not very soon could not have been a better visual narrative for
04:58Veer than for it to be shot the way it is because you know we are portraying a time
05:06when a crisis hit everyone globally you know and at the same level and so just to kind of
05:14uniform all the experiences I feel there couldn't have been a better way but to go black and white with the film.
05:20How has Anubhav Sinha altered you as a performer?
05:23I had a great time working with him he is such a dear friend now of course during the
05:27shoot we realized that how cool he is as a person, he is brilliant of course we're all aware of it
05:32with his filmography Mulk Thapar, Article 15 but as a person I think I'm a fan of him as a person
05:39he is so genuine, he is so full of life and he's always, he always inspires you he's got this
05:48great energy about him you know I suppose and his sense of humour I think we really
05:53connected on that stupid sense of humour.
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