Mumbai: In an exclusive interview, the cast and directors of 'The Family Man Season 3' expressed excitement and enthusiasm for the new season. Manoj Bajpayee and Priyamani reprise their roles, joined by Nimrat Kaur and Jaideep Ahlawat. The makers, Raj and DK, highlighted the blend of spycraft, middle-class humor, and emotion, crediting the talented cast for the show's success. Nimrat Kaur and Jaideep Ahlawat discussed their characters' complexities, with Nimrat emphasizing her character's strength and multitasking abilities. The cast encouraged viewers to watch the new season, promising a fresh and engaging story.
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00:00Hello team, family, man, it is absolute, it's an absolute pleasure to have you with us here at INS.
00:06Firstly, I mean looking at your faces, I am sure the show is already looking very amazing.
00:13So now please tell us how excited are you all to, you know, with the third season now it's there,
00:18so a lot of expectations are there from audiences.
00:21How excited are you, all of you?
00:24Mahoj, you want to go first?
00:26I'm very excited actually.
00:28Oh God, that sounded so fake, Mahoj.
00:35In real life, Manoj is not as good an actor as he is on screen.
00:38I'm so excited.
00:40Oh, wow, I'm excited.
00:44No, I mean, I had a good lunch.
00:46No, it's exciting because also the kind of gap there is between second season and third season, there was a lot of excitement when we came to know that the script is ready and now we have to, you know, start talking about the dates.
01:08It's always been with family man that you all look forward to getting back to the set, getting back to the people.
01:18You've been, you've gotten along so well, you created characters, you know, so many of them from Priyam Mani to Sharib to Sunny Hinduja to Shreya.
01:31And now in this one, the double bonanza, Nimrud Kaur and Jahidi Pahlawat, who I really admire a lot.
01:40So, they are all familiar people, but two people, though they are familiar behind the camera, but on camera, they were going to be completely strangers for the family man team and they have taken it very well.
01:57Excitement is that the biggest excitement for all of us is that none of us have seen it, but we are still playing that, you know, we are very excited.
02:12So, yeah, but the in-house report is that it's a kick-ass series.
02:19You go ahead and find out, we'll be finding out soon.
02:23Okay, this question is for the makers Raj and DK.
02:27You know, family man has redefined Indian storytelling by blending spycraft with middle class humor and emotion.
02:34Has it always been the concept from the season one till now?
02:39How has it been?
02:40Like what made you get up, get with this?
02:44Yeah.
02:45It's all this this story has this idea has been there for almost a dozen years ago.
02:54Like we had this thought.
02:57It took various shapes.
02:59It was almost made into a feature.
03:01It didn't didn't sit right.
03:03But there was this idea of combining making a spy a government employee.
03:10So that's what the reality is instead of the fancy roles we see from West to India.
03:18So we want to kind of ground the character.
03:19And that's been the idea since the beginning.
03:21It almost didn't get made initially because experts who read the story at that point in the very beginning said this is not going to work.
03:36This mixture doesn't work because none of the spy shows around the world have this genre mash.
03:44They usually are in that drama crime thriller action thriller drama usually humor doesn't come in.
03:52When humor comes in it becomes usually a spoof or that's how the shows have been if you look at all the shows.
03:59So this strange combination wasn't really didn't really sit well initially with some people.
04:07So yeah I mean I'm glad we stuck to it because I think we all felt from the beginning that the name the family man for a series like this and the whole contrast between the title the concept and what it is.
04:23We felt it was a fresh approach to this genre.
04:27So yeah it's been it's been our favorite story for like eight years now and writing still writing.
04:35Right right you know when you you already had Manoj Vajpayee sir and Priyamani ma'am and Sharib Hashmi sir on board and now with Nimrat ma'am and Jaideep sir on board what happens is when you have all of them are stalwarts in their own niche right.
04:51When you have such such high quality performers is it easy or is it difficult for you as makers to kind of because they already know their job so well.
05:01Is it easy or difficult for you to kind of direct them and if difficult how is it difficult.
05:07No I mean you kind of said it in your question itself it's like saying.
05:12You are you have this cricket team and everybody is a great player does it make it harder for you know.
05:19It makes it easy for us right so that's one of the things we look for right we want.
05:23We want we want to work with amazing actors who are very competent and very confident in their craft and so whatever we write on paper we write a character on paper and it's the actor that has to internalize and bring the character to life and the character can only be as good as the actor.
05:43So it's absolutely without any doubt it's a pleasure to work with good and great actors all the time I mean I don't think there is a good I mean alternative if you don't have a good actor there is no alternative for it I mean you everything you work for might just fall flat which is why it's very important this this cast here is literally what is making the series or any other series you know stand out and be what it is.
06:10Absolutely continuing to the same question what made you cast Nimrat Ma'am and Jaideep Sir for the third season what was that particular USP that you were looking at into your characters that you found that they will fit the build very well.
06:23Yeah I mean we were for Jaideep we were looking at somebody like Jaideep and for Nimrat.
06:29No Jaideep's character is a initially when we were cracking it's very tough Rukma's character because it could get very filmy you know and we usually try to play with the edge the border of realistic yet entertaining realistic yet cinematic so that's the line we flirt with.
06:52So another character another actor could easily make it I don't know cheesy or pulpy for that matter here is a grounded series and we had to be in that so it's very hard to nail it because you need the swag but you also need the earthiness to say this guy is for real and not a cinematic character.
07:17With Nimrat's role Meera's role it was another challenge because you need somebody who had the confidence and the personality that could do a man's job in a man's predominantly man's area or area of expertise usually that's what you see all the men doing all this dirty work in a way in international level.
07:42So to have somebody there needed that a personality and that stature that comes with that so both of them I think they're perfect for the roles we couldn't tell us.
07:52Yeah I mean Nimrat's character especially for example she can be a classy, suave, educated person in such a setting and the moment she goes down into the street she can play as dirty as it takes.
08:10She can match say somebody like Jedeep's character at that level as well so she as a character she has that wide range she can be extremely street smart and dirty versus very classy and cool and suave.
08:24Right right this question is from Nimrat ma'am I wanted to know that we've seen your area of work throughout from lunchbox to now family man as well you can you easily fit into the shoes of a very very simple homemaker as well yet yet strong as well as somebody as sassy and classy in family man.
08:45What go what thought process goes into it when you actually you know have to play such portray such characters and what is your personal you know how which character basically are you more comfortable at in playing in general.
09:00I mean to answer your first question you know when someone envisions you in a way that is unusual that gives you a lot of confidence as an actor and what it does is that it makes you feel almost like oh they believe in me and when it's you know people like Raj and DK sir who you know whose work I'm such a fan of for such a long time from you know all the way back you know I can say from the days of
09:3099 I feel like you know I feel like you know that confidence you get it's such a boost and then you have a vehicle which is being led by Manoj sir and then you feel like okay here I am I find myself in a place where I'm being asked to play something that I've not been asked to do before
09:49how can I bring my A game into it and do the best that I can and then you have the incredible material that you can play with you have all these crisp amazing dialogue and then you have you know I trained I dabbled with training in you know a British accent you know to kind of get that little edge we wanted to keep it you know relatable but at the same time you know we know that she's from a very different world.
10:17it's it's it's really you know an actor is as good as the makers and their vision really allows you to flourish and the ability to agree to disagree and to just just you know be yourself as a human being offset and then when you're on set you can just fly with everything that you've been given.
10:37That is very rare to come by you know on any set anywhere in the world and it's a great privilege honestly to be envisioned in a way where you haven't been before.
10:49So and what was the other question I'm sorry?
10:51No it was pretty much the same.
10:53So this question is for Jaideep sir.
10:56Recently your show launched your dance boomed to a different level.
11:06It took more than the show your dance was in news and it stirred headlines like never before.
11:13Family Man mein apka alag USP kya dekhne melega? Acting to hai of course.
11:18But if you can tell us what is that surprise element that fans can expect from Jaideep alava this time around what would that be?
11:25No it is not new almost.
11:27On the serious note ki baht interestingly likhaha ua character in the very deep down a rebellion hain.
11:37Ape nai life se hhi, kud ki life se hhi aek bhaagawa insaan jo jis ko woh nahin chahiye tha, joh uske paas tha ya jo bhi iske situation tha.
11:46And now, he does not belong to anything, no attachment to anything, just as ruthless as anyone can be to the society, to the world.
12:03His only agenda is to get rich and powerful. And the beauty of the writing is that even this man can, you know, you can feel like, oh, he is not that ruthless, you know, he still have that those emotions somewhere deep down that he becomes, he can be a family man also if given chances, you know.
12:31So, the journey of Rukma, the way he goes, he goes into the life of his own or he goes into the life of his own, I think that is the beauty of the entire plot.
12:46Right. Next question is for Manoj, sir.
12:49When an actor comes on board for the first time, I mean for season one, right, the kind of excitement and the kind of thrill and the kind of hard work that goes into it because it's very exciting, it's something new that you're going to portray.
13:04But this is the third time, third season that you're playing as Shrikant Tiwari. How difficult or easy is it to actually kind of imbibe the same quality that because audiences do remember, even if we, even if you guys forget audiences do remember the continuity, the kind of feel you gave as Shrikant.
13:20So, I wanted to know how difficult or easy is it as an actor to kind of maintain that continuity into your character.
13:26I mean easy is in only one way that you are familiar about the character and if at all, you know, you are missing out on something, you can always, you know, switch on the prime video and you, you know, you just watch one episode or two episode and you get all the fundamentals.
13:44You get all the fundamentals, but as I said earlier also that it's a journey and now he's reached in at a stage where he is losing his all grain, okay.
14:03He doesn't know an answer to anything that is happening to his life, to his career and that is a very unusual spot that he finds himself in.
14:16So, to play all of that in different, with different, different people with whom his dynamics are changing, it's a, for me it's very difficult.
14:28It can be easy for a lot, many people, but for me it's a, it is, it has been a journey which, which I never got to play even in family man.
14:39And that way, this experience has been very, very unique.
14:44Right.
14:45This question is for Priyamani ma'am.
14:47Your character Suchi is extremely real, flawed and very relatable as well to almost a lot of women out there.
14:56Right.
14:57Having said that, you have also portrayed in your other phases of life, you have portrayed extremely strong other kind of characters.
15:05Do you really think, I mean, what, this is the USP of Suchi in per se?
15:11I don't think she's flawed in any way.
15:13I was going to say.
15:14Yeah.
15:15I wanted to see why she thinks she's flawed.
15:17Because usually what happens is actresses, I mean, the onscreen characters are very prim and proper.
15:21Right.
15:22And they do not kind of be very relatable to the normal audiences.
15:26But with Suchi, you do feel, ki, achha yeh galhtiya shayad ho sakti hai and yeh bhi ho sakta hai.
15:32And the way she's trying to manage the house as well as her individual journey as well.
15:38So, put together.
15:39Yeah.
15:40When you are dealing with that kind of realism, what she's trying to say, you, you, you, the characters are flawed.
15:48Like everyone is flawed.
15:49Yeah.
15:50Everyone, everyone has flaws, right?
15:51Yeah.
15:52Yeah.
15:53And nobody is perfect in the way you see it.
15:56Yeah.
15:57But I think that is the beauty of, yeah, how they've written the character.
16:01I mean, for you, you may, like you said, you're saying Suchitra is flawed, but I'm saying Suchitra is not flawed.
16:08I mean, she's right in her way.
16:10She's taking care of the family, which aptly, which is there because Shrikant owing to his career and his thing, what he's doing to save the country.
16:19Even though she knows that he is doing this, but somewhere down the line, she wants all she wants him to be safe.
16:25And, you know, she wants him to be at home.
16:27She wants to spend time with him, be as part of family, be more with the kids rather than just being her all the time.
16:34Somewhere she is feeling she wants to be heard.
16:38She wants to be, she wants to talk to her partner where, when her partner is not there, which is there, you know, in today's thing, it's there everywhere.
16:47Yeah.
16:48So according to me, I think Suchitra is right in her way, but yes, somewhere it's affecting her world also.
16:56She wants to look at something else.
16:58So that's why if you see from season one, when she was a professor, she was a teacher.
17:02And then from there, you know, she gets an offer to join another to do another work, which she thinks she excels and actually she does do quite well in that line as well.
17:13And that's when she meets her friends and she meets Arvind and everybody.
17:17And then that arc is going there where she wants to she wants to do something good for herself where she feels that this is my space.
17:23You know, this is where I can fit and this is what this is my calling.
17:27So I really don't.
17:28And on the other hand, because Shrikhand is busy, like I said before, she's managing the kids and things like that.
17:34So I don't think she is flawed.
17:36She is a multitasker and right.
17:39So I think women are multitaskers.
17:41Right.
17:42Right.
17:43This question is for all of you.
17:44That's the beauty of it.
17:45That's the beauty of it.
17:46That's the beauty.
17:47Yeah.
17:48Generally, when you play negative roles.
17:49Yeah.
17:50And of course, you know it.
17:51You have to believe so much into yourself that that your character is right.
18:06Yeah.
18:07Otherwise, it will never come out of God.
18:11Correct.
18:12So like Rajiniti.
18:14When he's there, he's standing on the dice and to believe.
18:19Correct.
18:20It's so much that you think that this will kill everyone.
18:23There's no doubt in it.
18:25So I think, yeah, that's the beauty.
18:27Yeah.
18:28You have to love your flaws.
18:29Absolutely.
18:30One last question.
18:31I would like you to please tell audiences.
18:34Why do you feel they should watch Family Man season three?
18:38Because you have watched one and two and loved it.
18:43Go and find yourself in a very new environment of Family Man you have never seen before.
18:49Yeah.
18:50I mean, he's so right that you've seen it.
18:52You've admired it.
18:53You loved it.
18:54You waited for it.
18:55There's no reason to go ahead and watch it.
18:59Yeah.
19:00Yeah.
19:01I want Nimrat and Jaideep to give new reasons as to why.
19:03Yeah, please.
19:04Yes.
19:05Please go ahead.
19:06I am the new reason.
19:07You're good.
19:08Emeth is the new reason.
19:09And together we are a new reason.
19:10And Shrikath is an eternal reason to be there and go watch it.
19:14So you don't need reasons to watch it.
19:16No.
19:17You have too many.
19:18Right.
19:19Yes.
19:20We are proud of Family Man and we want you guys to switch on your TV and watch it on Prime Video.
19:27The Family Man season 3.
19:29There you go.
19:31Thank you so much.
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