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In an exclusive flashback interview with Lehren, Junior Artist Sitaram Kadam shares his inspiring Bollywood journey which started years back with Samjhauta film in 1973! The hardworking personality talks about a junior artist's life in the Hindi Film Industry by commenting upon their wages, struggles, status, type of work & benefits too... Sitaram reveals how he got selected for 2 famous TV advertisements of brands like Kodak & Fevicol which made him popular overnight! Kadam also highlights his goodwill & reputation in cineworld as the latter has worked with Mega Stars like Amitabh Bachchan & Shah Rukh Khan in turn sharing some unheard tales from the sets of movies like Khule-Aam (1992) & Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai (2001), which also starred A-list artists. #sitaramkadam #juniorartist #bollywood #samjhauta #khuleaam #basitnasakhwaab #amitabhbachchan #shahrukhkhan

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00:00My name is Sitaram Kadab
00:27My age was 53, in 1974
00:34I was born in Filmland
00:37I was working on the first film
00:38and I was doing the first film
00:39and the film's name is Sumjota
00:41I was playing a song in the Film Alaya studio
00:46My first film was the first film
00:50and the film was shooting at the Film Alaya studio
00:54How did you come to this film as a junior artist?
01:01I was working on the film line
01:04and on paper, I had to work on Shihushna Chittrabad
01:07and I was a member of Shihushna Chittrabad
01:12and then I was involved in the junior artist
01:15Sir, how did you come to this film as a junior artist?
01:21How did you come to this film as a junior artist?
01:24No, no!
01:25The film line was good
01:27When I came to the film line
01:29I got Rs.13
01:31I got Rs.13
01:32I got Rs.13
01:33I got Rs.13
01:34So, the film was good
01:36I got Rs.13
01:38I got Rs.13
01:40I got Rs.13
01:42I got Rs.13
01:43For my family living
01:45I heard this film line
01:46I had a coffee
01:48I did that
01:50I was working on this film line
01:53and after that
01:56I started in the film clip
01:57In a 1996
01:58we're a supplier
01:59Lek Rajan Company
02:00ཅོདོས ཀིས ངསླས དགས ཏགས ཏུགས ཏཏེ པའི སློགས གསློད
02:04How is the treatment for the junior artists in this industry?
02:10When you work, how are the treatment for the rest of the unit?
02:16The treatment for the junior artists is good.
02:19There is no corrupt treatment.
02:21The junior artists are also good.
02:23And they are also good.
02:25I am not an assistant.
02:28We are working on an assistant.
02:30The direction department has a requirement.
02:32If the hotel scene is required,
02:36it is required to have such a dress,
02:38and it is required to have such a dress.
02:41We are running the requirements and running the shots.
02:44The work of the assistant is like that.
02:46I am an assistant.
02:48After the set,
02:51the junior artists is not the name of the director.
02:54The supplier or the supplier is the name of the assistant.
02:56The assistant is the coordinator.
02:58The director says,
03:00You can leave two couples here,
03:02you can leave one couple here,
03:03you can leave one couple here,
03:04you can leave one couple behind and talk to you.
03:06So, the coordinator of the assistant is the work.
03:10So, he is still working on the latest news,
03:12I am still working on that.
03:14And in this work,
03:16I was going to add a camera,
03:18a small camera,
03:20shooting in Banganga.
03:22It was the highlight company.
03:24And there were also married people,
03:28married people,
03:29married people,
03:30and band members.
03:31So, when the band was playing,
03:33I was trying to explain the crowd.
03:35I was trying to dance,
03:36and I was trying to dance,
03:37and I was trying to do this.
03:38So, the director has seen it.
03:39The man is very active.
03:41So, he asked me,
03:43I will do acting.
03:44Why will I not do it?
03:45So, he said,
03:46if you are a little village type,
03:50or straight,
03:52and someone said,
03:53go on camera,
03:54and you don't have to go on camera,
03:56then what will you do?
03:57I will give you a reaction.
03:58So, when I came to the camera,
04:00I felt good.
04:01First of all,
04:02I added the camera.
04:04After that,
04:05two months later,
04:06the same company,
04:07the director's name is Proshan Pandey.
04:09He is a very good person.
04:10At this time,
04:11he is my godfather.
04:13Then, two months later,
04:14he called me,
04:15he said,
04:16that he is your assistant.
04:18So, he called me,
04:19he added me,
04:20and he added me,
04:21and he added me,
04:22and he added me,
04:23and he added me,
04:24and he added me,
04:25so famous,
04:26In today's history,
04:27some of the people,
04:28who know my name is Taram,
04:29but who don't know my name,
04:31who call me,
04:32and who call me today,
04:33or say fake haul?
04:35After that,
04:36what changed,
04:37I changed your own treatment,
04:40how people have been getting you?
04:42This thing is,
04:43and the stars work with you,
04:45which are the main artists.
04:47How did you feel about it?
04:49Look,
04:50when the fake haul was released,
04:52After that, I can tell you, I was in a shoot two or three years ago.
04:59I was just in the shooting at Banaras.
05:02As many young people were watching the shooting,
05:05the half of them were mad at me.
05:08They were laughing,
05:10oh, look at the TV,
05:11oh, look at the TV,
05:12oh, look at the TV,
05:13so I was so famous,
05:14that there were a lot of people,
05:16like Amit Ji, Shah Rukh Khan,
05:18Abhishek Bachchan Ji,
05:20there were a lot of artists,
05:22who know the name,
05:23who know the name,
05:24the treatment is very good.
05:26Sir, if you got an ad,
05:29when they came here to the junior artists,
05:31do you know that the junior artists came to the industry,
05:34and after that,
05:35you have a great name?
05:37I am,
05:39maybe not,
05:41but I heard a lot of people from the first time,
05:43who worked in the junior artists,
05:45who worked in the junior artists,
05:47who worked in the junior artists,
05:49and then,
05:50who made a villain,
05:51who worked in the junior artists,
05:52who worked in the junior artists,
05:54who made a member,
05:55and then,
05:56he was a villain,
05:58and he was a villain.
05:59There were a lot of people from this,
06:00but after coming,
06:01I probably don't remember,
06:02that I was a man who was a man who was a man.
06:04Even though,
06:05you,
06:06you had become a career.
06:08How do people come here to the junior artists,
06:10how do people come here to the junior artists?
06:11How do people come here?
06:13How do people come here?
06:14Some people are shocked. Some people are shocked. Some people are shocked.
06:22Some people are shocked. Some people are shocked.
06:26Some people get 300 or 200 rupees, but they get good money in the industry.
06:31They want to get 700 rupees or 1000 rupees every day.
06:35If we have worked for 10 days, we will get 10,000 rupees.
06:38Some people are shocked. Some people are shocked.
06:44When I came to the film line, my father was a little older.
06:49He was a little older, but he didn't have anything.
06:52My mother used to get 1,5 rupees a day.
06:55My father used to get 1,5 rupees a day.
06:58My mother used to get 1,5 rupees a day.
07:00My mother used to work in the kitchen.
07:02In this situation, I haven't written a lot.
07:05I didn't study it, because I didn't have any list of my family.
07:09So I came to this situation on film line.
07:12I have earned money.
07:14After learning something, I was very active.
07:17There were boxes, too.
07:20Some people come here.
07:23Some people think that they have a family.
07:26He can enjoy it in the morning.
07:28If you get the money, you don't have to go to BRP.
07:30Some people are like that.
07:31But especially in junior artists, there are no such people.
07:33In junior artists, there are a lot of people.
07:35There are a lot of people who play with family,
07:37who play with children,
07:38and who play with their family,
07:39because in junior artists,
07:40they are a good family.
07:43Sir, a lot of things happen,
07:44when you have been doing this,
07:45when you have been doing this,
07:46when you have been doing this.
07:48The son of Guru Dajji made a film,
07:50I don't know my son's name,
07:52he made a film,
07:53he made a film,
07:54he made a film,
07:55and he made a film,
07:56and in his shooting,
07:57they were called the city,
07:58and the whole city was a town.
07:59The town was held in large sports,
08:03it had some food,
08:05it had somets,
08:07the village had somehattan effects,
08:09and the whole city was a dream.
08:10So, in one place,
08:11I was kept on the farm,
08:12and I was not aware of that.
08:14So I was like standing here,
08:16and Dajji said to him,
08:18that he said,
08:19he said,
08:20that like I say,
08:21you're going to run away.
08:23Because after running,
08:24he was going to blast
08:25from here,
08:26There was a bomb that didn't know me, so the action was said and I think it would have been about 5 or 10 seconds.
08:37I jumped and the bomb hit 4-5 seconds. If I don't run, it was probably my fault.
08:45How can the film line be done without the junior artists?
08:51Can it be a film line?
08:52No.
08:53How can the film line be done without the junior artists?
08:56No.
08:57No.
08:58No.
08:59No.
09:00No.
09:01No.
09:02No.
09:03No.
09:04No.
09:05No.
09:06No.
09:07No.
09:08No.
09:09No.
09:10No.
09:11No.
09:12No.
09:13No.
09:14No.
09:15No.
09:16No.
09:17No.
09:18No.
09:19No.
09:20No.
09:21No.
09:22No.
09:23No.
09:24No.
09:25No.
09:26If you don't have a film, you don't have to film the film.
09:31If you make a film, you don't have to film.
09:34In the film, the characters are all about you.
09:37What you can do with the house of bamboo,
09:40if you have to film the house, you must have to film the film.
09:42So, if you make a film, you don't have to film the film.
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