Mumbai, Maharashtra: The cast of 'Bhay: The Gaurav Tiwari Mystery' Karan Tacker, Saloni Batra, and Danish Sood spoke to IANS about the real-life story of India’s first paranormal investigator. They shared their on set paranormal experiences and discussed the thrill and excitement of the show. The series traces Gaurav Tiwari’s journey from an aspiring actor and pilot to a pioneer in paranormal research, sparked by a supernatural incident during a test flight in the US. Blending real investigations with the mystery surrounding his untimely death at 32, the show focuses on realism and true events rather than typical horror tropes.
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00:00Welcome to INS Music. It is an absolute pleasure to have three or two on board with us today.
00:07So, first you tell us, I mean, the name gives out what is the genre, what is exactly.
00:13But then there is something that people don't know.
00:16What would that mean?
00:17So, what would that mean?
00:19What is that particular?
00:20Let's show you the show.
00:22It's the goal of the mystery.
00:24Mystery is the key element.
00:26That's what we are going to solve for you.
00:28So, as we read that it is based on a real life story, right?
00:32If you could let us play it in space, what is it? On whose life was it based?
00:36Well, you know, the show is based on the story of Gaurav Tiwari.
00:40Gaurav Tiwari was India's first paranormal investigator.
00:44He came to Mumbai to act and at some point he let go of that dream.
00:50Eventually became a pilot, went to the US to learn flying, excelled at what he did,
00:56had a paranormal incident on one of his test flights.
00:59And that actually irked his curiosity.
01:02And he went to the metaphysical church in the US.
01:05He had to study science because he didn't believe that he had to give me someone from the world.
01:10And he wanted to come and practice it.
01:11So, he came back to India and he set up shop here.
01:16And he comes from actually a very well-to-do family.
01:19But he chose to let go of all of that to do this thing.
01:22And, yeah, unfortunately passed away in a very short span of his career at the age of 32.
01:28That's the story and that's the story that we are all narrating.
01:32And we are very, very excited about it.
01:34We are a part of his team, which is called the Indian Paranormal Society.
01:46I play Megha.
01:47And I play Siddharth.
01:49So, we are his backbone.
01:54Since Gaurav couldn't do all the cases.
01:56Lead team.
01:57Lead team.
01:58I mean, what are you without the team, right?
02:00Yeah.
02:01Since Gaurav, sorry.
02:02Say it, please, please.
02:03Since Gaurav was doing a lot of these paranormal investigations by himself,
02:06he needed people to help him and figure it out.
02:09And Meghna shares very similar in terms of the idea, the feeling of Gaurav,
02:18as Karan has also mentioned in previous interviews,
02:21Gaurav has a tendency to feel a presence.
02:23And he can see and feel it.
02:26And Meghna, who is the character,
02:29he is also in real life.
02:31He is also in real life.
02:32He is also in real life.
02:33He is also in real life as well.
02:34And that led him to join the IPS, which is the Indian Paranormal Society.
02:50Sorry, I was just adding to my character.
02:53I was saying Meghna is someone who absolutely believes in the paranormal
02:57and when she kind of befriends Gaurav, their passions kind of are the same.
03:03So she joins him as his confidant, his best friend, like that's the character.
03:07And the whole arc is really interesting in terms of all of us because there is,
03:12we are trying to reveal the mystery of how Gaurav Tiwari dies,
03:19which is in the current timeline.
03:21but we are also telling them what's been happening and why sort of so.
03:26So you know, Amitabh, we have seen over the years, we have seen so many movies or projects
03:31and some new genre, right?
03:33What sets Meghna apart from the rest?
03:35And what's that particular thing?
03:38Because this thrill horror was genre.
03:41Super, yeah.
03:43So what is that thing that sets Meghna apart from the rest?
03:46Exactly everything you said.
03:48Yeah, exactly.
03:49Right?
03:50It's actually, it's not a horror show.
03:52Yeah.
03:53It is a paranormal show.
03:55It is, I think, a template of its own.
04:00It's most importantly based on a real person.
04:03Everything else you mentioned till now are hearsay incidents that have been turned into narratives,
04:08right?
04:09But this is the story that deals of a real person with a real team that still in times of today,
04:15when you and I are speaking today, are still doing this and are taking the legacy of Gaurav Tiwari forward.
04:22That is what sets the show apart.
04:25Right.
04:26Are you sure that you had any particular experiences, job in which we care or in real life also?
04:34Do you personally believe in these energies as such?
04:37I totally believe.
04:40I don't want to challenge it because at no point do I want that someone comes in front of me and says,
04:51We are.
04:53I totally believe in positive and negative energies for sure.
04:56I have not encountered a spirit situation.
04:59But on the set, we have had a few.
05:04If you could elaborate or narrate a few.
05:07One of them.
05:08Sorry, I want to answer all of them.
05:10When you do a genre, you have to become a believer yourself.
05:13Otherwise, you will constantly be questioning material.
05:16You know, because there is no way to look at it.
05:20I can't prove it.
05:21It's not substantial.
05:25You can't feel it.
05:26So you have to believe in the world.
05:28You have to become a believer whether you are or you are not.
05:31So I think I would like to say that on a certain level.
05:34I think we all put that fit into the genre like this.
05:39Otherwise, you will be at a point where you will be like,
05:42This is a little bit.
05:44This is a little bit.
05:45Your mind always takes over.
05:47Right.
05:48Absolutely.
05:49As I was asking, did you make a case in a particular incident?
05:52That is a little bit.
05:54Why are you looking at Saloni and asking that?
05:56Are you feeling that?
05:57I don't see it.
05:58It's like you are watching and saying something.
06:00I thought that something happened to you.
06:02Tell me.
06:04Tell me.
06:06Tell me.
06:07I told Saloni that when you are coming, you will not ask us.
06:11Of course I will tell you.
06:12On the set, but it happened to me.
06:14I was not doing that.
06:16They were imagining something.
06:18You are seeing something for me.
06:20I do not know that the feeling of being me or what I am right.
06:21The power will make you for showing that something happened to you.
06:24This in your eyes you feel like the feeling is something happened to me.
06:27How am I feeling?
06:28Maybe.
06:29Because she has actually cut them and then we have cut them.
06:32That's why I will ask him again.
06:33If I see Darrenish or something, it doesn't make sense that something happened to me.
06:35You will not have to laugh.
06:36You will not like out.
06:37I am really literally paying out.
06:38I am really thinking.
06:39You're innocent, you're innocent.
06:41Come on.
06:42No, no, I'm not going to do it.
06:44Seriously?
06:45No, no, no.
06:46There are many experiences and some of which I have also made us question.
06:52Because as all naturally, as thinking about things and when it happens, you rationalize them.
06:58But since we were in situations where actually we only,
07:04we had a few locations that were in the R.A.
07:09They've known that they've had some spirit or they have an energy that exists.
07:16You cannot experience it until you go there.
07:21Sometimes you feel a heavy energy when you go at places.
07:26We have felt that.
07:27And sometimes on set, something weird would just keep happening and we wouldn't be able to pinpoint.
07:33As to why, what, what, what, what, what.
07:38You tend to believe more when you're doing this.
07:40You have to, as he said.
07:41Camera plug-in.
07:42Camera plug-in.
07:43Camera plug-in.
07:44Camera plug-in.
07:45Camera on.
07:46There were some things which we felt funny about it.
07:49And we just also used to not think about it.
07:52But sometimes when we used to all meet and discuss at nights usually.
07:57Right.
07:58But the most interesting thing was that.
08:00The most interesting thing was that.
08:01I don't know about it.
08:02I don't even know about it.
08:03It's exclusive to you.
08:07It was very interesting.
08:09Which I don't know if you guys know or not.
08:11We were shooting this one scene between me and the character's name is Niharika.
08:16Any even time, there are two cameras at us.
08:19So, my clothes were closed.
08:21Just like you were sitting here, it was closed.
08:23And here, there was a camera.
08:24Okay.
08:27It's like this.
08:28I don't want to be scared.
08:29I'm trying to show you what happened.
08:32Sorry, I'm fine.
08:33Sorry.
08:34So, here, there was a camera.
08:35And here, there was a camera.
08:37Now, there's no camera like a mobile camera.
08:39You have to hit the button and record it.
08:41Now, obviously, because this was my clothes, we were recording this.
08:46But this camera, which was shut, actually recorded the whole scene
08:51from a very interesting weird Dutch angle.
08:54Because it was like this.
08:56You know, the camera was like this.
08:57So, it was like this whole very dramatic close of me from down of a scene.
09:02Where, basically, Niharika's character is a heavy story.
09:09I'm trying to do a heavy story.
09:10But I'm not doing it.
09:11So, it was like a scene.
09:13And that was so weird.
09:15That it was shot like a proper, well-blocked clothes in a Dutch way.
09:20That the camera didn't have any more.
09:23Okay, just one question for you.
09:25Gaurav Nibari is a real-life character.
09:28Yes.
09:29So, when we portray characters that are fictitious,
09:33we kind of take cinematic liberty and all of that.
09:35But when it's about paying a real-life character,
09:38there are certain responsibilities that we have seen together.
09:40So, how difficult or easy was it for you to portray the character of birth?
09:43Why? What are the researches?
09:45Actually, in your question, you know, fact.
09:47Actually, that's exactly the answer of it.
09:49That you can take a fictitious character with liberty.
09:52You can have a wider world.
09:54You can have wider mannerisms.
09:56You can actually imagine how to do it.
09:57But when you play a real character,
09:59you definitely don't keep it as a gimmick.
10:02Because you take it as well.
10:04At least, my opinion is that
10:06there is a lot of gesticulation.
10:08Unless the character is like this,
10:11but if it's not,
10:12you don't physically dramatize it.
10:15Also, when you're dealing with a person like Gaurav
10:18and the story that he had,
10:20it's not a happy ending, right?
10:22It's not a happy story.
10:23It's not a…
10:24So, it has a certain element of real life.
10:29And real life is tough.
10:30And real life is dark.
10:31And real life is difficult.
10:32When you're playing a character like that,
10:34even some…
10:35Actually, I'll be honest,
10:36even while doing interviews,
10:37it becomes very difficult to be jovial about a subject like this
10:40or to go out there and market it and sell it out of sheer excitement.
10:44You can't, right?
10:45Because you are talking about a person
10:46who unfortunately passed away
10:48about the story that you're making.
10:50So, it's that sensitivity translates ideally into every single thing.
10:55So, if you see the posters,
10:57you try your best as an actor.
10:58And while it's marketing,
10:59you're trying to attract people.
11:00But it has to have a certain tone of that sensitivity
11:04because you are dealing with someone's death and that narrative.
11:08Yeah.
11:09So, that's pretty much what you do.
11:10Yeah.
11:11We've seen you from your television shows.
11:13The promoters are going to take that.
11:15Right.
11:16And then khaki.
11:17Then special ops and all of that.
11:18Right.
11:19From daily to OTD.
11:20The transition that we have seen as viewers.
11:21Right.
11:22So, you know,
11:24has it been like a conscious decision
11:26for you to step into OTD and conquer that domain?
11:29Because on television as well, you were ruling the roost.
11:32Right.
11:33So, I mean, leaving…
11:34If you're not doing well on television,
11:35then switching to OTD is usually what people do.
11:37But you're already ruling the roost and stepping into a genre
11:40that was being explored back then.
11:43Right.
11:44So, how difficult or easy was it for you to leave that peak and then switch?
11:47Well, I actually had a very beautiful career on television,
11:50you know, as an actor.
11:51I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed my time.
11:53If anything, I'm so grateful to that medium that it allowed me.
11:57Such a wide audience.
11:58And, you know, television gives you a very wide acceptance and love very quick.
12:02You know, if your show is working or your character is light.
12:05Of course, it was a very strategic move to, you know, take a backseat from television at the peak of my career.
12:11Because I was like, just in case I fail, at least people remember me for, you know, the good work that I did.
12:16And to re-enter television would not be that tough.
12:19But at the time that I quit TV, there was actually only television and films, right?
12:24There was no OTD.
12:25So, it took me a good seven years actually after the break from television because I decided that if I act again,
12:31it is going to be something I really want to do.
12:34And I feel like it's going to leverage my career.
12:36Sorry, elevate my career.
12:39If not, I did other things, you know, I hosted a lot.
12:42Now, to conquer OTT, I feel like, you know, while that's very kind of you to say,
12:46but I think the outcome of nothing is in your hands, right?
12:50All you can do is that you can do justice to the projects that you have, you know, as offers or whatever,
12:56like if you test for something.
12:58And there on, just leave it, you know, I mean, you've got to, it takes a lot of evolution as an actor
13:03to get to that point where you're not petrified about the release.
13:07But yeah, I think I'm in that zone where I'm always now, of course, I'm nervous because there's so much on the line,
13:14given the fact that I also choose to do just one project a year.
13:17I want to change that actually in 2026, at least have two releases a year.
13:21But yeah, you know, I mean, I'm always excited about it.
13:25I want people to see my work.
13:26Like now I've become that guy that I'm like, hey, you know what?
13:28I've done something I'm really excited about.
13:29I'd love for you to see it.
13:31So it's been lovely.
13:32You know, actually, my career has been quite upswing.
13:35There's not much to complain about.
13:37Yeah, absolutely.
13:38And last question for all of you that why should viewers watch Bhair?
13:43Why should viewers watch Bhair?
13:45Well, I think people should watch Bhair because it deals with the story of a very, very interesting man by the name of Gaurav Tiwari.
13:53And what's really fascinating is that he was India's first paranormal investigator.
13:59So he was the one who set the slate for the rest of the country that took on.
14:04And while we as people from our part of the world might not know him, but he's a widely celebrated human being in his domain.
14:11And it's in a very, very small way, a celebration of him.
14:17So I think that would be a good reason to watch him so that in some way, you know, we as a team can take his legacy forward.
14:23Yeah, Gaurav Tiwari firstly, and if you like paranormal, supernatural, thrill, horror, you want to watch something interesting, something that's real.
14:37Still, I mean, we're trying to reveal a story of mystery of someone's death.
14:42And I think it's quite intriguing.
14:46So if a topic like this, a genre like this interests you, then you should definitely watch it.
14:53I think India's first real paranormal thriller show that exists and based on people that exist, people who existed before.
15:04And I guess there's a lot of realness in a lot of things that we've done, cases and hauntings that existed in real life,
15:11which were showcased maybe for one small YouTube videos or accounts that never existed.
15:16So putting them into life and showcasing what we've never done in India.
15:22There's never been a show in which we really explore the real life of someone who's actually a paranormal investigator
15:27and that to how he investigates his cases.
15:29So this is something that's completely out of the block for me.
15:32I feel it's different from the usual shows in the same genre that we've watched.
15:37And a lot more happens than just that's also just said in the trailer and in the teaser that exists that you get to watch.
15:45So get ready to get spooked.
15:49Thank you so much for your time.
15:55Thanks.
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