00:00First of all, welcome to Ionis.
00:07Okay, I'll tell you what.
00:19I feel happier working in short films than in commercial feature films.
00:28Commercial feature films are masala films.
00:31But a short film has a storyline, probably has something to convey,
00:36that I appreciate much more.
00:38So, when somebody proposes a short film, I look at it carefully.
00:45I don't say, no, no, no, that's not for me, no.
00:49Sir, do you think the edges of Paris cinema have been lost in today's industry?
00:55I think that's a misnomer.
01:00See, what happens is OTT is getting a certain pattern.
01:04You are classifying horror, this, love, relationship, something, something,
01:12thriller, crime, blah, blah, blah.
01:16So, you are fixing it beforehand.
01:19And you are spoon feeding the customer.
01:22I mean, you like crime, then watch this.
01:25As if it's a ready record now.
01:29Then what happens is you become into that class, classified.
01:38There are elements of horror in this film, but it's not a horror film.
01:42It's a psychological thriller.
01:44It's not even a crime film.
01:46It's not even a crime film.
01:48Nobody gets killed. No.
01:50No.
01:51So, but there is genuine fear in some of the parts.
01:57In this film, people get scared watching it.
02:01So, it defies classification.
02:04Is it horror?
02:05Is it crime?
02:06Is it psychological thriller?
02:08You make your choices.
02:09It's a combination of all.
02:11What's wrong with that?
02:12So, that's what.
02:13We will certainly want it on OTT platforms, but as a totally fresh film,
02:21which is not readily classified.
02:25Sir, in the mainstream volleyball,
02:28readily acknowledge the pattern of parallel cinema.
02:31Do you think that it's a delicate rejection?
02:34I am not very sure if this regular cinema and parallel cinema,
02:48is classification is good or bad, or real.
02:53To my mind, either you have a good film or a bad film,
02:59or you have a middle grade film.
03:02Anything that appeals to an audience and has something to convey,
03:09something that leaves behind.
03:12When you go back, you take back something from that movie.
03:17I think it is a good film.
03:19Yeah, commercial film, parallel film, indie film.
03:24Those are monetary classifications to my mind.
03:29That is a very good question, sir.
03:40Very good question.
03:42Because the popular notion is,
03:44theatre is much more theatrical.
03:50Because your gesture has to be seen till the end of the hall.
04:01So, you exaggerate every movement.
04:03All right.
04:05But in a movie, if it's a close-up,
04:10a slight inflection of the eyelids will show.
04:15That is the difference.
04:17But otherwise, the feeling that you should feel,
04:21if it shows you, then it's good acting.
04:24Sir, you have both friends with the Jitri also.
04:27Do you think that any current filmmakers come close to his mission at the storytelling department?
04:34Unfortunately, no.
04:37Unfortunately, no.
04:40Unfortunately, no.
04:41Very unfortunate.
04:43You see, Sathijit Ray is perceived as a simple storyteller now.
04:49We try and complicate our style of storytelling.
04:58It's that kind of thing.
05:00You play hide-and-seek with the audience.
05:02Ray was actually just a wonderful storyteller.
05:07That's it.
05:08I mean, he made you forget that you are watching a movie.
05:12We haven't seen you more in a commercial cinema.
05:21So, was it a lack of opportunity or possibility?
05:24When I work in a commercial movie, I don't know.
05:33I mean, it's like, you know,
05:36Oh, please, don't leave me like this.
05:41And going down on my knees and offering a ring.
05:45That kind of dramatics.
05:47We can do it.
05:48But I will do something different then.
05:50In a short film,
05:55the fight sequence masters,
06:01they said,
06:03you hit.
06:05All right.
06:06And then they have these inside mechanisms.
06:09They explode.
06:10You know,
06:12all right.
06:14And you said,
06:15Oh!
06:16Oh!
06:17That kind of thing.
06:18And I said,
06:19I will die.
06:20I will never replicate that.
06:22Am I a clown?
06:23So what I did was something totally different.
06:27Just my knees broke,
06:29and I just collapsed like that,
06:31and then fell backwards.
06:33You can't go into a stereotype.
06:38You just can't go there.
06:39You just can't go there.
06:41You just can't go there.
06:43Do you think that the Indian for medicine,
06:45especially Bollywood,
06:46has been obsessed with youth and karma
06:49to achieve their performance like this?
06:51Oh!
06:52See,
06:53absolutely brilliant question,
06:57so relevant,
06:58absolutely to the moment.
07:00I'll tell you why.
07:01I've been seeing,
07:03I've been seeing huge,
07:06huge signboards,
07:09billboards,
07:10everything of Royal.
07:12It's a,
07:13come on.
07:14I mean,
07:15all things said and done.
07:16It's a very mundane movie.
07:18Lekin,
07:19they have spent a lot of money on this.
07:22All right.
07:23You promote it in such a fashion.
07:26Are you at the OTT?
07:28Are you watching one day?
07:30No,
07:31what is it?
07:32Young,
07:33young lovers and that kind of thing.
07:35Look,
07:36what is it?
07:37They will force you to watch it once at least.
07:40Because,
07:41they are promoting it in such huge scale.
07:45There's a huge pressure.
07:59I'm sorry,
08:00I'm being very,
08:01very frank.
08:02I mean,
08:03the actors,
08:04actresses have nothing,
08:06nothing wrong.
08:07But they have acted in a film.
08:09That's all.
08:10Sir,
08:11what do you have comments about your picture?
08:15We have seen that.
08:17It reminds us of what was it?
08:20There are elements of menace.
08:26Menacing,
08:27it's not horror.
08:31Lekin,
08:32the kind of menace.
08:35Menace.
08:36There are elements of menace
08:39in this movie.
08:40That's up to you.
08:42My godfather
08:43I am extremely flattered.
09:10But he spoke about the film in general, which he liked very much.
09:20I am part of that.
09:22I am grateful for that, absolutely grateful to him for that.
09:31He did not say, but he took me yesterday and I got a darshan.
09:40So we were called inside in the sentry room and after that darshan, he called us over for
09:51a photo shoot and he knew I was Bengali and all that kind of thing.
09:58I felt very flattered.
10:00I think this is a lovely movie to watch.
10:12I mean, once you see it, you will agree with me that it was worth watching.
10:20I have seen it four times.
10:22I don't mind watching again, not because I have acted in it.
10:27There is a lot of films that I don't want to watch again again, but I have done it.
10:48It was a big, big success story.
10:55I think it's a Telugu film.
11:01They selected me for a role of that.
11:16So anything good that comes my way, I will accept.
11:20It was a commercial film.
11:30Corporatization has come from Hollywood.
11:33There, the big companies have taken over.
11:36So they have to hedge their risk factors, etc., etc.
11:42Creativity and corporatization are not necessarily the same thing.
11:47But if you are making something creative,
11:54the individual has to come forward.
11:59Yeah.
12:00Future projects.
12:06If you are making this film,
12:13it is entirely possible that we will have rerouting to this.
12:18This is a possibility.
12:19But other than that, I do a whole lot of other films.
12:22I've done it right now.
12:25And I hope to do it.
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