00:00I think everyone feels like the underdog in their own story and for me this is the anthem of the
00:04underdog, you know, this is the underdog action movie
00:20All action movies have all great action movies have a great training montage scene
00:26Oh in here, there's a very good one because the hero your character finds his own rhythm of fighting thanks
00:34to the music
00:35How important is to find your own rhythm when you are an actor and also when you're making a movie?
00:41It's a great question. Thank you. I mean I that for me was one of the early earlier scenes I
00:46thought of in the film
00:47Every great action movie has a great training montage and for me, you know part of my culture, you know
00:54And just growing up in a household when my mom listened from everything from Indian music to Boney M to
00:58You know was to add music to it and I feel action as a genre is very percussive, you know
01:06And so music's instrumental in the film it can create contrast it can heighten moments and I love the idea
01:14of this
01:14You know this guy, Zakir Hussain, he toured with Ravi Shankar and the Beatles
01:19And it's him on the drums with no words teaching me how to tune my instrument with his, you know
01:25And he finds a stillness and a music to his violence
01:29Great scene. Thank you.
01:31And Anoman is amazing because he shows us the power of stories
01:36Because the little kid finds his own purpose thanks to that single story
01:40So how important are stories to you?
01:43Stories are everything, you know
01:45As someone who is a very imaginative young kid who has found it hard to concentrate
01:51I think, you know, stories, great imagery, iconography
01:55Something that can tickle your imagination is so much better than being force-fed
01:59Something that is meant to be important
02:02So, you know, if I was to tell a young dev, you know, this is right and this is wrong
02:07It probably wouldn't land, but my grandfather telling me these stories, like the mythology
02:13That's where you learn what good and evil is, what's right, what's wrong, you know
02:16And I think stories are an amazing kind of way to learn, yeah
02:21I love that you use many reflections, water, glass, mirrors
02:27Yeah, it was out of necessity or it's your own style because it gives us a great aesthetic but also
02:34like a character who is so complex
02:36Part of it is the psychology of like someone who's trying to hide his identity and voyeurism is a big
02:42part of the movie
02:43But I love like obscuring and kind of like finding texture in front of the camera and behind
02:49You know, there's something about a clean frame that I don't like because I think, I don't know if it's
02:54the way I see the world
02:55But like nothing's ever clean, you know, there's, you know, there's always something obscuring or whatever
02:59And for me that element of voyeurism and peeking through and seeing through the crack or seeing a small detail
03:07in a reflected piece of glass
03:08That's more exciting
03:10Your character mentor says to him that you have to destroy in order to grow
03:15How much did you grow since you destroyed everything?
03:19I got that from actually the, you know, indigenous Aboriginal culture in Australia
03:24And they do these, you know, these controlled bushfires
03:28And, you know, you do these burn-offs so that new life can grow and the soil gets enriched with
03:34all the carbon and things
03:35And for me I love that concept of like as a human whether it's the primal thing of going to
03:40a gym and destroying your muscle to grow bigger
03:42Or just working on yourself, you have to go in therapy and talk about tough things
03:48You have to destroy yourself in order to grow
03:51I love that
03:52And I love the philosophy of this movie because female, male, destruction, construction all combined
03:59I love the parts you're picking up
04:01Yeah
04:01This is a fun movie, of course, but how much of the present days is in your movie?
04:07Because I feel that we are all in your movie
04:09Well, yeah, I wanted it to represent all of us, really, you know, there's a bit for everyone I think
04:14in there
04:15I think everyone feels like the underdog in their own story
04:17And for me this is the anthem of the underdog, you know, this is the underdog action movie
04:22Yeah, you gave us hope
04:24Oh, thank you
04:25Yeah
04:25Am I crazy or, okay, there are John Wick references, Kill Bill, of course, Bruce Lee, but is there something
04:34also from Baz Luhrmann?
04:37Because there's Roxanne and an aquarium like in Romeo and Juliet, like in Moulin Rouge
04:42Yeah
04:43I mean, why not? I'll take it, I love Baz Luhrmann, let's do it, yeah, put all of them in
04:48there
04:48Yeah, yeah
04:49And to you, fighting is more, it's more like a dance or a feeling?
04:57Oh, wow, a feeling, it's a feeling, yeah, I think, I think I'm a bad dancer, so it's all about
05:05the feeling
05:05You know what I mean?
05:08Okay, thank you so much, thank you
05:10Thank you so much, nice to meet you
05:11I love the movie, it's amazing, great job
05:13Thank you
05:35Thank you
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