00:00Why do you feel that you are a superstar if you see my journey in Bengal?
00:10I see that I am a debutant. I am starting in Hindi film, Hindi work.
00:15And I had kept the same approach for it.
00:19And to keep the other things rolling, the thing you love,
00:26if you have to spend time with it, then you don't know how the time has passed.
00:31This is our profession. We love it. It's our passion.
00:37You don't know.
00:44A lot of it, I'll have to give it to Tushar.
00:47Tushar Kanti Rehu is the other director for the show and also the DOP.
00:51So we had very long discussions on how we want the show to look.
00:55Because we were playing through a lot of timelines.
00:57If you've seen the audience, when they see the show, you'd realise there are a lot of timelines that we were playing through.
01:06It was a very fun experience of figuring out how every timeline kind of looks.
01:13If you see, there is a 1954 timeline, there is a 1988 timeline, there is a 1991 timeline.
01:19To make them look unique and to make them feel like you're transcended to that kind of era was the challenge.
01:28And we took it up. Now it's on to the audience, how they feel about it.
01:32Other than that, generally, in treatment, there is a couple of treatments that we've done with the show.
01:39I think when the audience sees it, let them be the judge of it.
01:44Putting out too much would be a little bit of...
01:47Drum beating is a little weird.
01:49But we enjoyed, we enjoyed the entire process.
01:51Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:52So even the way we've...
01:55We...
01:56How do you call it?
01:57Even the way we've...
01:59What's the word, man? I've forgotten the word.
02:01No problem, no problem. Don't stress.
02:02No problem, no problem.
02:06The way we've shot these two very different worlds,
02:11which is your, you know, the cop...
02:13Underbelly and cop both, yeah.
02:14The underbelly and the cop and the politics.
02:16It's very different when you see it.
02:19So I think people who like seeing the technicalities of it would love it.
02:24And our production designer Rajesh also did a great job by setting up Calcutta's backdrop everywhere in every frame.
02:32Rajesh did an amazing job. I mean, he's from the heartland of Kolkata.
02:41The greatest part of telling a story like this in a city like Calcutta is Calcutta has a very amazing quality.
02:48And the quality is that it is extremely timeless.
02:51I mean, there are parts of the city where you would reach and you would feel that you are transcended in that timeline anyways.
02:58On top of that, the added beauty is that we have an amazing production designer like Rajesh Chaudhary who did an amazing job.
03:05And we are all from Bengal. We've seen how it looks.
03:09We've had our chats with our grandparents and papa and mummy.
03:13And we know how it used to look.
03:15And those meetings have kind of fruitioned to what the show is now looking like.
03:22So everyone is greedy to show this and that.
03:25And we come from that same, you know, this thing.
03:27So that is how... It wasn't very challenging.
03:31Yes, obviously to show a city which is now 25 and showing a story from 2002 was a little bit of challenge.
03:39But it was an amazing challenge. So it did not feel like a challenge at all.
03:42It was an amazing experience. So it didn't feel like a challenge at all.
03:46And then again to add to it, Tushar's cinematography and the other DOPs that were there on the show.
03:51They were all on board and they wanted to shoot it. We wanted to shoot a period.
03:57We all knew what we were going into and what a great experience it was.
04:01But you would agree or not, if you love something, if you are passionate about something, challenges will be there.
04:06Life without challenges you cannot expect.
04:08But you would enjoy those challenges.
04:09No one. No one.
04:10The challenge is what lets you go.
04:13It's the motivation.
04:14But again if you are in passion with the profession or whatever you are doing, then you enjoy everything.
04:20The challenges also you enjoy.
04:22True, true.
04:23I think it comes back to what she was saying in the break.
04:28Because of that I have been to Kolkata ample amount of times.
04:33But for the first time, I have seen a different side of Kolkata.
04:37We have shot in such places that you see the real grass root level of Kolkata in the Bengal chapter.
04:44Which is what is getting complimented.
04:46You know the essence, like the real thing which spurs on everything else.
04:50That is in the Bengal chapter.
04:52You know during our recce's our drivers got irritated.
04:56I mean we were seeing 30-40-60 locations a day.
04:59And the driver goes, are you guys really going to shoot?
05:02Or are you just watching like this?
05:05I have also been working in the Bengal industry for 2-4 years.
05:07So I have also worked in some locations where I have never worked before.
05:10I have worked for the first time.
05:13And memo sir.
05:14With regards.
05:22The most important thing is whenever you do a new project.
05:25I think the familiarity between the people.
05:28Forget the characters, that is very important.
05:30I cannot just go ask Dibatnandan Tushar, what is Himal doing?
05:34First he has to know me.
05:36I need to know him.
05:37Because everybody has a different point of view.
05:39They both have thought Khaki the way I will never think of Khaki.
05:43You know what I mean?
05:44So I need to understand them.
05:46So as the days were progressing.
05:48We were getting that banter, we were getting that understanding.
05:51And there were many scenes where as you must have seen the show.
05:54Where me, Jeetdaan, Akanksha, we all are there.
05:57Dibatnandan was directing us.
05:58After a point of time we understood what he was thinking.
06:01That is very important.
06:03To understand what your captain wants.
06:05Because as an actor you will feel that I will pick it up from the left.
06:08He will say no, pick it up from the right.
06:10I need to believe him.
06:11Yes, pick it up from the right.
06:13Himal will pick it up from the right.
06:14He will not pick it up from the left.
06:16Small small nuances.
06:17But then they add up.
06:18And they become the beautiful cake.
06:20You know how you put the strawberry.
06:21And you put the layering on top.
06:23You put the sprinkles.
06:24So that's what the actors do.
06:26The cake design the director knows.
06:28So that is what was very easy going when it came to the process of Himal.
06:32See this is your character.
06:34They gave me a baseline.
06:35See this will be the character.
06:36This will be his behavior.
06:38And then we started growing it together.
06:40And that is what transcribed in the show.
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