00:00Il nostro corso gratuito è molto importante perché ci sono molto rari film che ho fatto attraverso
00:13che facciano un'occhiata e un'occhiata in un'occhiata in un'occhiata.
00:25non ci sono stati scrittori, quindi è una grande opportunità per un attore come me, che viene da un background di teatro, dove ho studiato tutti i great masters,
00:38including Goldoni, o Shakespeare, Ibsen, o you name, including Indian great masters as well. So, in films, the literature is missing in Indian films. Quite often, I don't see great literature in terms of writing.
00:58So, literature-wise, words-wise, which had been used in this film, are of high quality. And also, an important journey of a woman's desire and its expression in a very confined society,
01:18where women are expected to behave in a certain way, and then juxtapose that in an anti-war narrative, which is a very, very interesting combination.
01:33So, when I was asked to play this role, who is a snake, but a human being, so the nuance difference, you know, how much snake, how much human being, and so it was very, very challenging as well for me,
01:52but extremely, extremely interesting for me to explore that space.
01:55Yeah, desire has multi-layered meaning. Desire could be something what we are dealing with here, but let me just say general understanding of desire for me is to be able to follow your deepest aspiration,
02:23where you want to be more than who you are, you are, because I feel that is an embedded human tendency, that every human being wants to explore themselves.
02:40And because we live up or born in a society, whatever society, even in Italian society, there are conditions which will try to constrain you, to make you small.
02:51Oh, you are not good enough, you are not this, you are that, you are that. And then there are, there would be differences between how you treat women and men and between genders as well.
03:02So, the embedded tendency to break free from the shell of your worldview or what you had been conditioned by your parents, your school, your education, your society in large and the universe at large.
03:21To break free from that, one has to follow the innermost tendency to express yourself, which include sexual desire as well.
03:32Now, sexuality is a very tricky subject, definitely everywhere in the world.
03:38So, the West has somehow found a way to break free.
03:41In Italy, I have seen so many films, great masters, you know, of Italy.
03:47So, there is a, which revolution happened maybe in 40s, 50s.
03:53In India, we are yet to come out of that.
03:56So, women's desire is not being looked at with respect, with sense of grace, with a sense of aesthetics, with a sense of beauty, that this is also legitimate, this is also normal.
04:13So, if we can show, if we can be violent, or if we can show our sadness, if we can show our anger, or if we can show our, what do you call that, wonder, why can't we express ourselves sexually as well?
04:34So, the societal, the confrontation between personal desire and societal condition is, I feel, that had been dealt with in this film.
04:47And, I have a feeling that this kind of movies, when they are made in India, there will be certain amount of awareness, if I can put it that way, that, ah, why a woman has to come, after getting married,
05:03to a, ah, a man's house, why not, the opposite?
05:08There are two different societies in India, in the tribal areas, where there is a place called Sikkim and Meghalay.
05:16So, the woman marries a man and brings him home.
05:21There is, there is a whole, ah, three tribes, they do that in, in Meghalay.
05:27And, in Sikkim, in the North East, where I come from, a woman could have five partners, socially allowed, not only allowed, they practice it.
05:37So, it is normal there.
05:40But, in the rest of India, it is like, you cannot even think about it.
05:43Though, in our, most respected, ah, epic, called Mahabharat, I don't know if you have heard about it or not, there are two big epics, like, Iliad and Odyssey, we have, Mahabharat and Ramayana.
06:00In Mahabharat, we have a character, main character, who is a woman, married to five husbands.
06:06So, now, in India, for some reason, we need anthropological research on that, why it got transformed into monogamy.
06:17So, it is a very, very interesting space that Nidhi Saxena, the director, is, is trying to explore.
06:24I came to Venice Festival, for the first time, in, no, first I came to Rome Festival, in 2011, with an Italian film, I acted in, directed by E. Thalo Espaneli, produced by Rai Television.
06:43That's the first time I came, I played the lead actor in that film.
06:47And then, second time, I came to Genoa, for a theatre performance, I went, I went to watch it.
06:56And, the third time, I came to Venice Festival, with a film, called, Hotel Salvation, where I played the lead in that, in 2017.
07:08This is my fifth time.
07:09Yes, a lot of new projects, I'm already shooting for a Netflix film, series in India.
07:20There are talks between me, and an American film, and a British film.
07:24So, I keep doing all kinds of independent films.
07:26And, sometimes, when I see my bank balance go down, then I do a Bollywood film.
07:34I hope, you really benign him.
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