00:01Congratulations, welcome to INS.
00:04The trailer is so amazing.
00:05I normally don't, you know, see trailer again and again.
00:09I've seen it three times.
00:10Probably because it brings memories to all the 90s kids in school and college.
00:16So, first question goes to you.
00:19How did this idea come to you and how the entire film?
00:22Have you seen it?
00:24I haven't seen it.
00:26No, I'm going to go.
00:28I haven't seen it.
00:31I have many more questions.
00:33The question goes to you about the entire idea and how it took shape.
00:38So, the idea basically came from Netflix to us.
00:41Radhika had written the story.
00:43And it was around 8-10 pages she had written.
00:47And when I read the story, I really kind of, you know, liked it.
00:50And then we started developing it with Jihan and Radhika.
00:53They both wrote the screenplay of it.
00:54And then once the screenplay was done, we approached Maddy sir.
00:57And then, you know, he liked the script.
00:59And so then we approached Fatima.
01:01They both came on board.
01:02And then from there we started developing it further.
01:04You said that the film was shot in your city, Jamshedpur.
01:11So, you got to revisit those old places.
01:14So, which special location did you visit?
01:17And what did you do with that?
01:18And what did you do with that?
01:20I got to go to the Quranic school.
01:24And in the school, I saw the insecurity of what happened in life.
01:31Because in the 8th or 9th year, we had to enjoy it.
01:34And I was scared to myself.
01:36And so, if you had to teach the result of life.
01:37That you could have to do successful.
01:38You could have to do successful in engineering, i.i.t.
01:40So, the last two years of it.
01:43It was the only time that was the sorrow that was happening in our hearts and minds.
01:49The trauma that has been passed from our mother-bombs.
01:53All of those things I remember.
01:54But then I thought you were scared.
01:57Look at what is happening in life.
02:00Did it bring back your memory of your first love, of your first crush?
02:04Yeah, yeah.
02:04See, for us.
02:05And we would like to know more about it.
02:08So, you want me to answer in English or Hindi?
02:11Whatever is comfortable.
02:13Yeah, of course.
02:13Actually, mix.
02:14At that point of time, we used to run through a guilt key.
02:18If you held a girl's hand and she become your girlfriend,
02:21that means you're getting married to her.
02:22That was the ultimate, that was the reason you had a girlfriend.
02:25You find somebody and you get married.
02:26There was never, let's try out and see how it goes.
02:29And then benching and what is the belching and whatever.
02:31Orbiting.
02:32Orbiting and.
02:35So, when we fell in love at that time,
02:39it was always the imagination itself was all long term.
02:42It was not, let's see how quickly we can get into bed and how it will be the case.
02:45It was always, you know, make records and tapes.
02:49Make sure that, you know, give them gifts.
02:51Woo them the way it is supposed to be wooed.
02:53So, all those things, although it did happen in our lives,
02:58was not connected to this film.
03:00In this one, it's about 40 plus year old guy who is not married and is looking for some sort of meaning in his life.
03:08And he finds that in the form of a beautiful woman who agrees to marry him.
03:12And how he messes it up because of his conditioning.
03:16So, that is probably the huge, large difference between how we fell in love and this.
03:22Okay, Fatima, the next question is for you.
03:23So, do you still think 30 plus girls who are not married,
03:29it's still a taboo in society that people talk about them,
03:33that why don't they get married, why don't they get married?
03:35It happens, but it happens.
03:37I think it happens.
03:38It was more prominently.
03:40Now, relationships have changed.
03:42A lot more people are okay to be alone or, you know, they are concentrating on different things.
03:52So, society which is accepting.
03:55I don't know the right thing, but I think the taboo is a little less anymore.
04:01And what is your experience with your first love that have you ever kept flower in books?
04:07A hundred percent?
04:09My first time, he took flowers from the door and took my birthday to the room.
04:15Flowers, flowers, flowers.
04:16And then cake, cake and candles.
04:19What was the problem?
04:20That it was a little time for me to come.
04:21When I reached the door, all candles were dead.
04:24So, like full pigal.
04:26So, like full pigal.
04:26Yeah, after that, we had to do our work.
04:29You know, you had to remove that.
04:30So, I have experienced that kind of love.
04:32I was very young and until I didn't come to Facebook, Instagram.
04:36So, I've faced, like experience a very special kind of a love.
04:43Your last project with Netflix was Meenakshi Sundareshwar.
04:47So, in that film also, obviously, unless and until there is some conflict in love story, it will not become a love story, real love story.
04:53So, in that film also, we saw that the girl is little, you know, she's the one who speaks everything on your face.
05:02And the boy is a little submissive.
05:04So, here on the other side, it feels like that.
05:05So, is it a pattern these days in love story, where the girls are very outspoken and boys are like subtle, they hold everything to their heart?
05:16I don't think there is a pattern.
05:19I mean, like in life also, you'll find both versions of a guy and a girl as well at times in a relationship.
05:26You know, one is a bit more outspoken.
05:28One is, you know, like people are at times introvert, people are at times extrovert.
05:32So, I guess it varies.
05:33I mean, one shouldn't generalize it that, you know, majority of the relationship go towards that way.
05:38Yeah, I mean, in films, I feel it always comes from the story.
05:43In this, if you'll watch the film, you'll understand why Madhu is Madhu because there is a reason to it.
05:48And also, there is a reason in overall scheme of things, how it changes.
05:52You'll understand when you'll see the film ki what issue Shri Renu he's having in his life.
05:56If he also meets a girl who's like him, then perhaps the story won't move ahead.
06:12So, even in Meenakshi, even in this one, I guess, for me, it's always been what the overall story is
06:18and how both of them are coming together and bringing change in each other's lives.
06:21I, since I've not seen the film, I've just seen that trailer and I've seen that line where Fatima, your character, is saying that
06:32So, do you think, this is for both of you,
06:41and if your limit is breaching his limit, is it right?
06:49Because, this is for both men and women.
06:54It's right, I mean, I'm sorry.
06:59You are saying that, why don't you learn my limit?
07:01Your limit is probably not their limit.
07:03Correct.
07:04But if it creates conflict, is it okay?
07:08No, it's okay till a point where both parties respect each other's limits.
07:13The moment, I mean, if I don't respect my limit, I don't respect my limit, it's non-negotiable.
07:21So, then, it doesn't work.
07:24It's the same question as for yourself.
07:25I'm thinking, yeah.
07:27So, because if, you know, in a relationship, if my limit is something and your limit is something, how does that?
07:34In this case, we said that we were talking about love, right?
07:39So, the limit, nobody can set that limit for another person.
07:48The freedom that I'm getting, I should be able to give that much freedom in the bare minimum of the context.
07:54But, this is also a small thing, I'm saying that you have to explore new horizons together.
08:00That's what companionship means, right?
08:03So, if we start talking about the limits of the relationship, then it's already in a bed.
08:10So, in this case, Shri Renu talks about the limits of the relationship, because that's his conditioning.
08:19And what he's doing is outside of his life.
08:24He's living in his life or in his life, he's living in an app or doing such things.
08:28So, somewhere else, he's establishing his identity and saying,
08:33I'll give it so much, but I'll keep it so much so that I can keep it.
08:38It doesn't even mean it.
08:39Which is what you get to know when you see the movie.
08:42That's what he's doing.
08:42That's what he's doing.
08:43He's doing a skip mechanism in which he's doing.
08:45Okay.
08:45So, in the film, you're playing a character from Jamshedpur, Bihar, Jharkhand.
08:50Correct.
08:50And she is playing a Bengali.
08:52This kind of story is very common in Jharkhand and Bihar area.
08:56You have a memory of these kind of stories, because I belong to the same area.
09:00So, I know these kind of love stories are very common.
09:04See, to be frank with you, our love stories were not so common.
09:09No, I'm saying that…
09:09Love stories were scandalized.
09:11Love stories were not so common in our lives, but it's not so common in our lives.
09:15Love stories were not so common in our lives, but it was very rare in our lives.
09:19So, it was very rare in our lives.
09:21I asked this question from Fatima, that keeping that flower in that book, you must have done
09:29in school.
09:30Not me.
09:32Not me.
09:33Because I have never loved it.
09:35Please.
09:36I had…
09:37No, I'm saying that we were scared.
09:39Life is ruined.
09:41If you don't get an I.I.T. in 12th, you don't get an I.I.T.
09:43Girlfriend, girlfriend, girlfriend, it's just like you're looking for someone.
09:49You're saying, bro, this is a girlfriend.
09:51Where are you going to study?
09:52That's the same thing.
09:53So, we didn't…
09:54We never had…
09:55In college, it was never that kind of a love.
09:58Because like I said in the beginning, if you're a girlfriend, you're going to be married
10:02or married, you're going to be a baby.
10:04That's what it was.
10:05So, I've never given it to anyone or anyone who gave it to me actually.
10:10When you were a teenager and now, you see…
10:12How have you seen the definition of love changing?
10:15As you age, the definition is changing.
10:18Because there are experiences.
10:20And you need to change.
10:22If you stay back, then love will not evolve.
10:26And it will not grow your growth or your relationship.
10:29Because at every age, your conflicts are different.
10:34Your goals are different.
10:36At one point, you're just experiencing love for the first time.
10:39At one point, at one point…
10:40At one point, at one point, you have to be a companion.
10:42Not only love.
10:43You have to experience a lot of things.
10:46So, that's the meaning.
10:48Madhavan said, this is a question.
10:50For you, not entirely related to movie.
10:53You have been brought up in Jamshedpur, which was Bihar at that time in Jharkhand.
10:59You are from South, Tamil Nadu.
11:02You have worked in Mumbai and you have travelled entire world and also lives in Dubai now.
11:08Have you ever experienced the kind of…
11:13I mean, whatever is…
11:14I'm not pointing towards one state or one region.
11:16But across India, whatever is happening regarding language or regional divide.
11:21Since you are the one who represents real India.
11:24So, this question is valid for you.
11:26I spoke Tamil.
11:27I spoke Hindi.
11:28And I studied in Kohlhaapur also.
11:31Marathi also I have learnt.
11:33So, I'd never have a problem.
11:35Unless I know or not, I have never any difficulty.
11:37I've never felt pain.
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