मुंबई, महाराष्ट्र: शशांक खेतान की अपकमिंग वेब सीरीज 'सिंगल पापा' में लीड रोल निभा रहे एक्टर कुणाल खेमू ने IANS के साथ खास बातचीत की और सीरीज की कहानी और अपने किरदार के बारे में कुछ बातें शेयर कीं। सीरीज में अपने किरदार 'गौरव गहलोत' के बारे में कुणाल ने बताया कि इसे बिगड़ा हुआ इंसान नहीं कहा जा सकता, लेकिन हाँ, इसे 'मैन-चाइल्ड'जरूर कहा जा सकता है। 'गौरव गहलोत' अपने तलाक के बाद एक बच्चे को गोद लेता है और फिर बच्चे जैसी मासूमियत और नेचर के साथ उसे पालने की कोशिश करता है। कुणाल ने बताया कि सीरीज में उनके किरदार की 'मेन चाइल्ड' से लेकर मैच्योर होने तक की इंटरेस्टिंग जर्नी दिखाई गई है। इसके अलावा कुणाल ने चाइल्ड एक्टर से लेकर अभी तक की अपनी एक्टिंग करियर की जर्नी को भी शेयर किया और कुछ अपनी कुछ खास फिल्मों के एक्सपीरियंस के बारे में भी बताया।
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00:00so first of all kunal congratulations for single papa that's about to come on netflix
00:03thank you uh if you could uh help me with uh you know how did you uh like become one with the idea
00:10and what appealed to you the idea the most about a single papa it was a pretty it was one of the
00:15quickest decisions for me i i remember uh samar and shashank who's the showrun on this and samar
00:21khan who's a producer on this they reached out to me they i don't know if they gave me a gist
00:25they said that we want to bring something to you and i remember meeting ishita shashank uh samar
00:30and they just narrated the first episode to me and then they just told me the the arc of that
00:35and i think by the time they finished narrating that episode also i was like yeah let's do this
00:39because it just kind of connected with me on different levels i i love the writing of it i
00:44love the fact that this was going to be a clutter breaker of sorts uh and you know netflix was
00:50trying to make a show which was light-hearted funny yet had kind of an emotional depth to it
00:56so i think it was one of those uh shows which kind of can you know it'll make you laugh but at the same
01:03time it might you know strike a nerve and be a tearjerker at some point uh so all of those things
01:07were lovely and i love the uh the part that was written for me uh which is a god of gailot
01:12uh and i i just knew i just wanted to be a part of it okay okay and i was reading about uh your
01:18character now i got to know that it's a man child uh but then he has his own world you know there are
01:25people around him care about him and his decision you know which may come across as a very abrupt to
01:29those around him if you could walk me through the world of this character the value that the value
01:35system that he has and who are all uh who all are around him well i think gaurav gailot is that you
01:42know that eldest child in in a household where he is taking all of them so he is also somebody who is
01:50not like a menace creator he is not a bad guy he is just he is just man child because i think he
01:57has become a single father of course uh not just his ex-wife his parents his friends his society
02:11everybody thinks that's it's a wrong decision but i think it's also the coming of age for this
02:16character jaha wo kahi na kahi khud bacha hai lekin ek bachche ki cha mein wo kahi na kahi khud
02:23mature hota hai or wo us ki journey of a man child se ek fatherhood tak ki jo hai wo bach
02:29interesting hai okay and how did your fatherhood that sentiment uh trickle down into this part
02:38of personal papa i think it's kai na kahi wo sari up you know bhaji hoi lagta hai ki like being
02:44a father i've had the edge over agar mein nahi hota then i would have to draw from others experiences
02:50and lives and imagine what it would feel like but here i i had my own experiences to kind of draw
02:56from i remembered what it felt like to hold a baby for the first time uh or or or like the other
03:03things that happen and i think wo kahi na kahi writing mein bhi hai kuki uh you know nahi likha hai
03:07and they said that you know they thought about this show some time ago but they only wrote it
03:17i think a year and a half after they became parents okay so they said that they had a different
03:23perspective of when they wrote it because it was all drawn from the real life experiences
03:28so i think wo bhot sara already likhai mein again shashank he's also a father so i think we had all
03:33these parents who had their own experiences and they kind of all came together and wrote this show
03:40directed the show acted in it so i really hope that after all of this it's it's a show that you
03:46know when families watch together uh they kind of resonate with it and enjoy it okay okay and you're a
03:53writer yourself you have written some of you know the greatest gems of hindi cinema uh maddo is my
04:00absolute favorite then there's google one of course uh cult films uh so in addition to being an actor
04:06when you're a writer you can clearly see the structure and you know the loops being closed the
04:12narrative loops being closed when you're reading through the script uh in that sense how would you
04:16define the writing of single papa you know honestly uh especially because i do this on my own i've
04:22realized that i i turn that switch off because it can be a tricky thing you know if you're as a
04:27director if you go on somebody else's set and you keep your director switch on then you'll never be
04:32able to just be an actor similarly when i'm reading a script i turn off the writer switch completely
04:36of course if there are suggestions that as an actor also you sometimes feel that hey you know can i say
04:41this line so i i keep it very limited to that but having said that i think within this show the writing
04:47was so nice that i even if i'm not a writer like if i wasn't a writer just as an actor you're also
04:53motivated by what you read so i was laughing i was it was getting all the emotions out of me which i
04:59think were written and they were landing for me so just on those basis i've kind of been there but
05:04on a side note i always you know if i'm if i'm being uh hired to be an actor on a show then i'm only
05:12an actor on that show i do not bring my caps of being a writer or director to that okay and i want
05:19to talk about mudgaon uh you know my absolute one of my absolute favorite films uh i remember the
05:25first time when i saw the trailer uh it was uh in no hotel if i'm not wrong uh no hotel or
05:30either of the two the room was quiet and after the trailer played the entire media everyone was
05:38present there they just went berserk right right uh tell me what it takes to mount such a film uh
05:44to have a story classic classic story of three friends uh you know going on a trip and then
05:49everything going south from there what it takes to bring such film to the audience i think it takes
05:53a lot of luck man it takes a lot of uh because you know i always say that for an actor acting is
06:00for free it's just for waiting is what you get paid for similarly as a writer i think at least for
06:05myself i can speak i mean i wanted to tell the story so i wrote it uh i didn't did i know how
06:10to mount it no i had no idea did i know i was going to direct it no uh at best i thought if like
06:15you know maybe i'll just play one of the parts of the three friends uh but it's been its own journey
06:19i mean i wrote it in 2015 and like seven years later uh you know somebody read it and said that
06:26i really like this we should make it and i was like okay and you should direct it i was like great
06:31let's do it uh and and then things you know when they have to fall in place they fall into place
06:35uh so i wouldn't i'll be lying to you if i gave you a solid answer of saying this is what it takes
06:40to mount a film because it takes a lot and sometimes it takes nothing like i said you know
06:45like if your stars are in your favor it'll happen like that or it might just not happen uh but i'm very
06:51happy that for me it did happen and it happened at the right place it happened with the right people
06:55and i think what's most important that it resonated and connected with the audiences
06:59and like you said uh for me it was interesting to be in that trailer launch where like you said you
07:05know there was silence and you were like so nervous saying that i don't know if what's going to happen
07:10but i remember when it played and and i think that's the good thing with laughter it's pretty much like
07:14being on stage right because it's so natural you can't fake a laughter you can either laugh or you
07:19can't laugh uh if it was a if i'd made a you know thriller i wouldn't know if you guys liked it or
07:25not but with the comedy i knew that they're laughing so i was happy and and the fact that it continued
07:30with the film also i'm even happier because sometimes you're scared you're watching the trailer
07:35people don't like a lot but the film doesn't live up to the trailer so i'm very happy that uh in
07:40hindsight you know everybody's loved the film okay okay and what i love about you is that you're
07:46dangerously talented as an artist you're an actor a director a writer a musician also right um no
07:52and you have been working since a very young age very tender age uh no when you start off early how
07:57does it arm up the artist in you if you could give out a message to the younger actors or younger
08:02artists i don't know i think it's like a constantly burning desire it's like you got to keep adding fuel
08:09to it uh and make sure that it doesn't die out and i don't think even it dying out is in your
08:14hands it's it's just your personality it'll be different for everybody you know it it i didn't
08:19know when i i didn't even know if i want to be a actor as a child but i just know at some point i
08:24was like i saw my parents on stage and i saw them act and i was like i love films and i was like how
08:29will it feel to be on a big screen so i kind of went for it then i really enjoyed it uh and so much
08:34so that by the age of 15 i was like i want to be an actor and so even when i did college i was in on
08:39stage i did a lot of theater and then again i wanted to be an actor and i got a chance to kind
08:44of do a film like you can do that and then is when i fell in love with the entire workings of how films
08:50are made and in an actor's life there are often times that you're working 24 7 or then there are
08:55times for like six months or a year you don't have work so you're at home and that's when you know
09:00you go through this maturing phase of how do you deal with things that are not in your control how do
09:06deal with these ups and downs happinesses and sadnesses but i kind of think that because i
09:11love the entire process of making films i want i had stories in my head that i was forced to in this
09:18time put down to paper so i kind of trained the writer within me uh and then years later kind of
09:26i didn't know if it was going to be fruitful uh i was just doing it as a therapeutic exercise
09:30but i kept writing and i think i got i really enjoyed it maybe i got better at it and then
09:36when somebody found an interest in it the director and me was challenged and i was like yes let's do
09:42it so i think boy yeah if you like something you don't like something you don't do it i mean i'm
09:50saying a lot of times people have made career shifts and it's done really well for them so i think
09:55to ease their own you will know in your heart and in your instinct what you want to do and what drives
10:00you and you just keep at it and moving further if you have films like madgaon uh go go on go on in
10:08filmography there's one more film uh which i really love which is zakma you know a gem of a film uh
10:15getting to do that so early in your career uh what are the your fondest memories of working on that film
10:20with a bunch of talented people out there everything man like i uh i think that was a very critical film
10:26in my career which made me solidify my belief in myself as an actor because what's that uh
10:32first of all you're a kid in a film so when you say half the times you're not sure like are they
10:38just finding me cute and they're laughing because of that and i've been handed like one-liners
10:42you know if it was just liking me because i'm an eight-year-old who's saying those lines uh but in
10:48zakma is for the first time when i thought that okay i'm getting respect out of this more than
10:53uh just oh he's such a nice kid uh so for me that was the most important thing and i have the
10:58fondest memories of working with bhatsav i think he's been an integral part of my acting career and
11:04he's been one of the most motivational people in my life and an encouraging person who also gave me
11:09a relaunch with a film like kalyuk uh and again that was something was important because it was
11:15bhatsav's last film as a director uh until years later he made sadhak again but uh puja's last film
11:21as an actor then and my last film was a child actor so uh i was very happy to be a part of it
11:26and i know that years before he made that film he had told me that he wanted to make this film
11:30and he had said that if if you're not in it i won't make it and i thought he was just lying and
11:34i remember it was my 10th standard and was so there was a point where i was not going to be able
11:41to do it and i remember mukesh but uh calling up my house and speaking to my dad and telling me that
11:47bhatsav will not make the film so please make sure that you can do the film because you want to make
11:51the film so i i have a lot of respect and love for bhatsav for that and for giving me a film like
11:55that that's you know like we're still talking about it i was 15 then uh and so yeah it is one of the
12:02most important films of my life perfect and for my last question uh cinema you have worked through
12:09and through you have an extensive experience uh when you step into the world of a series like
12:13single papa or abhay what changes for you as an actor i think i don't know if there's much of a
12:20change but it's just sometimes more interesting to do because you get to live that character for a
12:26longer period of time you get to uh build the arc of that character in depth uh because it's not like
12:34a two hour or two and a half hour three hour journey that the audiences are going to have with you
12:38so you got to be more in the skin of this character because over years and depending on how
12:45many episodes there are you know it can shift but i think it's not just for an actor i think primarily
12:50it's at the writing stage because they kind of are the architects of this ship so how they build
12:55that character then of course for me as an actor i've i enjoy the fact that if it's well written then
13:00you'll enjoy it but if it's not then maybe then it can get taxing you know if you're like okay we're
13:05just doing this because it's working but i feel spent as an actor that i've lived this character
13:09inside out luckily but uh but i i like the fact that you can get deeper in the dynamics of
13:19the relationships of this character with everybody else perfect perfect so on that note thank you so
13:23much and i wish you all the best was in the proper
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