00:00Thank you, thank you so much. We had an amazing response from the international
00:05audiences from Cairns and yesterday in London it was phenomenal. You see when
00:13you make a film which is from your heart and I'm not a traditionally director
00:20I'm primarily an actor but the story inspired me or when it reaches the heart
00:27of the people it's very gratifying. The kind of comments we got in Cairns and in
00:33London yesterday is fantastic. I wanted to make a film from India for the world
00:38and I think that aim I have managed to sort of achieve because it's a universal
00:46subject. It's a subject which all of us deal with in some way or the other but
00:53maybe ignore it because we think that it's somebody else's problem and the
00:59whole thing is said with a certain amount of entertainment. To me
01:07autism is super power. The story of Tanvi is that and I was very overwhelmed by the
01:16reaction of people. People were clapping in between because there are no macho
01:22heroes who sort of are beating 12 people and their audience claps. They were
01:29clapping because the thought of the film was resonating with them and they were
01:35crying. They were laughing at the end of the film. They didn't want to go. They were
01:41asking questions. So it's a beautiful feeling. Thank you.
01:47And so I would also like to ask you, this is an incredible moment of course for Indian
01:52cinema. The last time we had a conversation you had shared how the film had its own
01:58share of struggles. So what does this recognition mean to you personally and for
02:06the, you know, for the entire team? So I have always looked at my life that the
02:13tagline of the film is Tanvi the Great, different but no less. So I think that
02:18applies to everybody, all of us, especially I have applied it to my life. I came to
02:25the city of Mumbai with 37 rupees. After three years of struggle, I bought a film. I was 27, 28 and I
02:33got a role of 75-year-old man. So I've always tried to break the stereotype, you know, the
02:42typecasting. I did all kinds of films. I wrote books which were not about acting. The
02:49books were about motivational books. I run an acting school. I also wanted to make a film
02:55which was different but no less. We are, I'm not saying it out of arrogance. I am a part of that
03:04cinema. We are, I think right now, a little bankrupt about the script, especially the Hindi cinema. We need, we are
03:17going through a time when I think we need to even respect. So in that, the success, we
03:25talked about the box office when it's religious is on 18th of July. But the
03:30success of the film on an international platform like Cannes and then in London
03:35proves that if you do something with conviction against all odds, it is the most
03:41gratifying film and it will reach people's heart. Of course, you know, one has read about autism
03:48and we are a little sensitized about it generally, you know, as people. But this made me understand
03:56the qualities, the super qualities that a human being has. And I have always believed that when
04:04God takes away one faculty, he, she, whoever God may be, gives you something so much more
04:11in return. And it's such a pleasure to, you know, see what can be unfold in front of your
04:17eyes, where super qualities unfold. So I think it has sensitized us more and has filled our heart
04:25with a lot of empathy for children who have autism. And at the same time, there is also
04:32a sense of, what do you say, we feel that, you know, these people, these children have superpowers.
04:40So we don't need to look at them with pity. But we should be proud that these kids are, we
04:46are blessed to have these kids in our lives. There are certain films that will work in our
04:51country, for our audiences, for our certain target audiences. And we should not, we should
04:57not stop making those kinds of films. Because those films are very important for, for our own
05:02culture, for our own people. And if I might use a nice Hindi word, it's our
05:08in many ways. We need that nutrition of entertainment that we've grown upon over, over decades.
05:14And why should we abandon that? However, there are certain kinds of films, there's a certain
05:19tonality that is required, which I think should go into the international markets, so that
05:24we have the searchlights pointing towards our country, that, you know, we can, we do what
05:31we do, as we've been doing over so many decades so beautifully well. But this is what we can
05:37do too. And for those kinds of films, I think you have to understand that those international
05:42audiences need to be, to be lured towards India.
05:46Thank you very much.
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