In an exclusive conversation with the senior most journalist Bharathi S. Pradhan, we dive into the man behind one of the most impactful characters in Dhurandhar: The Revenge- Mashhoor Amrohi, who plays Nawab Shafiq. Despite limited screen time, his presence indeed left a lasting impression. He opens up about how did he land into this role, Aditya Dhar’s vision and the intense transformation he went through hours of prosthetic makeup. From the film’s massive success to the criticism around it being labelled as "propaganda", he shares his honest thoughts. The actor also speaks about working with Ranveer Singh and reacts to the use of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s footage in the film. And beyond Dhurandhar, further he also reflected on his journey, past work and his legacy as Kamal Amrohi’s grandson, touching upon stories that shaped him. Catch the full interview for exclusive insights into Mashhoor Amrohi's life both on and off screen, only on Lehren.
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00:00Alhamdulillah, thank you God for this interview.
00:02Om Namah Shivaya, Shivji Sada Sahai.
00:04Om Namah Shivaya, Guruji Sada Sahai.
00:06Om Embrim Hanumate Sri Ram Duttaya Namah.
00:09And Om Sai Ram.
00:11Don't love everyone.
00:12Some people are saying that this is a propaganda film.
00:17The whole world has seen it.
00:19It speaks of nationalism.
00:20It speaks of valor.
00:22It speaks of courage.
00:24This film needs to be very careful.
00:30It is against certain elements.
00:32If the director wants to show it,
00:35there is no propaganda film.
00:37there is no propaganda film.
00:38If we show a political leader,
00:41what is the propaganda?
00:42He is our Prime Minister.
00:44If there is a demonetization,
00:46and there are 500 or 1000 notes,
00:47who can show it in this speech?
00:48Aditya Dhar, Bill Clinton.
00:50No.
00:52Rampal Sahib, Akshay Khanna Sahib,
00:54all in the room,
00:55you feel it.
00:55When they talk about dialogue,
00:56they don't have fun.
00:59They also feel it.
01:00They feel it.
01:00They feel it.
01:01They feel pain.
01:03They feel it.
01:04They feel it.
01:04They feel it.
01:05They feel it.
01:07They feel it.
01:07There is a wrong feeling.
01:09It's 8 hours for me to make up.
01:11It doesn't work.
01:11On a very good day,
01:13it feels 8 hours.
01:144 times,
01:14I have been sitting for the makeup process.
01:16So,
01:17I have been sitting for the first time,
01:18at 12 o'clock,
01:21our first picture clicked at 9 o'clock.
01:25What about the voice?
01:27So, that is another thing I realized.
01:28He has a very harsh and a rough voice.
01:31So, these are few things.
01:32You observed.
01:33Yeah.
01:33These are few things that I tried to adapt,
01:36you know,
01:36and adopt.
01:38Unfortunately,
01:39I saw Pakiza very late,
01:40and that's when I realized
01:41she's the best actress I've ever seen.
01:42With all due respect to the other actresses,
01:44they're all fantastic.
01:45They're all superb.
01:47They're all amazing.
01:48Every actress is amazing,
01:50but to me,
01:51if you personally ask me,
01:52I'm a fan of her acting as
01:55Sahib Jaan in Pakiza.
01:56She's fantastic.
01:57I saw Pakiza very late.
02:14and that's when she's got people.
02:15Alhamdulillah.
02:15Thank you, God, for this interview.
02:17Om Namas Shrivayeh Shivji Sadath Anh.
02:19Om Namas Shrivayeh Guruji Sadath Anh.
02:21Om Em Bhrim Hanuman Vasri Ram Duttaya Namah.
02:23It's Hanumanji's birthday.
02:26And Om Sai Ram.
02:27Thank you, God.
02:29Where did she come from here?
02:30I came to get Nawaz Sharif.
02:32Yeah, she's always Nawaz Sharif.
02:33But, obviously,
02:34It is a hard work of the director's enthusiasm, the director's patience, the director's demand
02:40The director's hard work is showing that Nawaz Sharif, Nawab Shafiq, Nawab Shafiq, Nawab Shafiq
02:48And I'm just eating a little fruit
02:52No fruit? You're taking a whole table
02:55I'm taking a whole table
02:55Because I actually didn't study any character about any character
03:03It's a small role in Durandur
03:06But I was like, it is not an actor
03:10It's not an actor, it's not an actor
03:13It's an AI generated Nawaz Sharif
03:16Because his name is Nawab Shafiq
03:18Nawab Shafiq
03:19But I will say Nawab Shafiq
03:22I will say Nawab Shafiq
03:23But we know we're talking about Nawab Shafiq
03:25It's a whole thing about Shri Aditya Dharj
03:28Yes
03:28Ms. Preethi Sheil Singh D'Souza Ji
03:31The prosthetics
03:33It's a whole thing about this thing
03:37And I will give it to the whole credit
03:39I will give it to these two characters
03:40So how did you become Nawaz Shafiq?
03:44I was astounded about the casting
03:48And the call that came in for me to play Nawab Shafiq
03:50But at that point, Bharti ji
03:52I was hungry for a role that transcended outside the boundaries of a Muslim or a NWFP antagonist
04:04Because most of the roles that I was probably getting during that phase between 2022 and 2024 was based on
04:12that for whatever criteria
04:13Because you are Kamal Amrohi's grandson
04:17So everybody feels that this will be called Urdu
04:20Yes, that's why he came to me and I thank you for that time
04:25And I thank you for that time
04:27And my lineage
04:28It was very easy for me to be able to speak at home
04:30It was very easy for me to be able to speak at home
04:32So when I had to be able to speak at home
04:36So when I had to be able to speak at work
04:38I was very impressed with Urdu
04:39So what happened to me?
04:40That at that point, my first impression always struck them as somebody who speaks fantastic and very able Urdu
04:47So when the relationship started, it was a time when they were a Muslim antagonist or NWFP antagonist
04:57Sorry, wrong terminology
04:59Not a Muslim antagonist
05:00But an Indian antagonist
05:02So I had to be able to get those eight roles in their roles
05:08It was a standard form
05:13It was a standard form
05:13It's a standard form
05:13It's a standard form
05:15It's a standard form
05:16And the beautiful part
05:20Or the standard part about this whole thing
05:22Is that everyone has to have one poke of face expression
05:25It's like these terrorists
05:26Or these elements of
05:28These harsh elements of society
05:29They never smile
05:30So you could never transcend into doing what Christoph Waltz did in Inglorious Basterds
05:34Where you can say something
05:36And do it with a smile
05:38Now tell me one dialogue
05:39What was typical of that time?
05:42The time of the time of the Indian
05:42The time of the Indian
05:44Now we have to move on to our planet
05:47It's typical things
05:49You know
05:50Whatever it is
05:51I don't want to take the country's name
05:52But whatever
05:53Kashmir
05:54The typical
05:54The typical
05:56The typical
05:56The hero loves to you
05:59The spy
05:59Whatever the movies that we all have enjoyed growing up
06:02Watching
06:03With
06:05The
06:05The
06:06Indian antagonist
06:07That's the right word
06:08So that came about
06:09And it's been done to that
06:10It's been driven
06:11Up the wall
06:12That character
06:13And
06:13For some sheer weird coincidence
06:16I was getting roles only within that periphery
06:18Which I didn't even understand
06:20That
06:21My other one is also
06:22You are also
06:23You are also
06:23If I want to take a knife
06:25If I can take a knife
06:26Then I can feel a little
06:28You know
06:29So that
06:29That was
06:30So from that
06:30I was
06:30I am
06:30So that
06:32That
06:32He worked with the
06:35Nawaab Shafiq
06:35From the role
06:36First of all
06:37I did not be
06:39With my
06:44N Adwani
07:01I was completely overwhelmed and encouraged as an actor then after that came the wonderful
07:14call from Mr. Mukesh Chhabra in Rekard with a certain film which I didn't mention.
07:19I didn't mention it.
07:20They said that this film was a very big star and a very big director's film.
07:25You know that this role is not a role, you know that there are some lines.
07:30This is a wrong idea.
07:31I was never auditioning for Major Iqbal or anything of that sort.
07:34No, it is just that someone who tries a role for an actor,
07:40they can't tell you the essence of the script and the synopsis of the script and you are playing
07:44it.
07:46Because they had 600-700 people auditioned.
07:50You can't divulge the importance of everything.
07:52The character who played Bade Saab didn't know he was Bade Saab till such time that the movie
07:55was released or maybe a few weeks before that.
07:57So these are certain things that we have to be very careful and cautious about.
08:00So just for me to be able to understand what Urdu was able to do, I gave them some dialogues
08:08which were probably Major Iqbal's songs.
08:12Something to the tune of Hume Aap Se Asla and Baruch and those who have been a Russian or American
08:18name.
08:19Whatever the dialogue is, just for me to see that my expression is correct or not.
08:23Can I give a good expression or not?
08:26My brain-santulan is fine or not?
08:29Is it the help that I am given by the casting director?
08:35Is it the help that I am doing or not?
08:37So, I called the role for all these things.
08:41When I saw it, I said it fine.
08:44It's fine.
08:47Then I called the phone to come.
08:49And it's a role that you hope that you like.
08:54And at that time, when I started talking about the director, Aditya Dharji,
08:59I didn't know what to say.
09:01I was overwhelmed.
09:03I was like to be under his direction and to work with such a fantastic human being.
09:08We all know what a capable director he is.
09:09We all know what an amazing director he is.
09:11He's a far better human being.
09:14Far better human being.
09:15So, when did this happen?
09:17When were you told what you are going to be doing?
09:20This series started in July 2024.
09:232024.
09:24Yes, it started in 2024.
09:25When they explained and told me that we want to be a character of Nawab Shafiq.
09:34Okay.
09:34But you have told me that he has to be…
09:37Zahir Sibat.
09:38Zahir Sibat.
09:38He's patterned on Nawab Shafiq.
09:41Zahir Sibat.
09:42So, you have to adapt something about his mind, his ways, his life, his life.
09:48You have to adapt something for this appreciation to follow.
09:50So, this award is under the Guru Ji.
09:54This award is now given the ranking that is brought to you, when the casting director is proved to be
10:01the director.
10:02Funny story, I was sitting on the chair and just about to enter Mr. Dharr's office and Mukesh Bhai was
10:09in this flurry, he was in a big hurry, he had just made like a blink and miss appearance in
10:13the office, he just comes, hugged me and just, chota hai par acha hai, kar le yo. And that was
10:18good enough for me.
10:19Chota hai par acha hai, he hugs me and then he was a very warm person. We were hugging and
10:23whilst in the midst of that hug, that was it for me to know that, yeah, in this person, in
10:28this person, he has knowledge, he has expertise to know.
10:31Not give me anything that is boring, a run of the mill, you know, redundant, something that I will not
10:38be excited and interested to do, not me, just anybody for that matter, a character aak hote hai, jho har
10:44actor chaata hai, us ki khuaish hoiti ki, character aak ho, aaj, aaj jaakar ke mujhe is baat ki ehmiyat
10:53pata chali ki character aak aur a sense of being different with your character, kitna mahatwa puran hai.
11:01But in this case, we just saw how many page scenes, how many lines, how many scenes, if you are
11:06in that pinjhra, if you are in that pinjhra, then your growth as an actor is not so much.
11:13You have to, first you have to be flexible, open. And for me, at that point, the calling card was
11:19Shri Aditya Dhar. And Mukesh Bhai has asked me,
11:22you have to be flexible, you have to be flexible, you have to be flexible and easy to do that.
11:26And then Aditya Dhar's confidence.
11:30And then Mr. Dhar's confidence. How was your first meeting with him? Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful.
11:34What happened? How are you talking about? We were sitting. Excuse me, I get thirsty during interviews.
11:40Alright. Please, I get thirsty. Alright.
11:56I get thirsty. And my partner, I get thirsty. I get thirsty. I get thirsty. I am a very, very
11:58warm, very warm, very affectionate person.
12:01Somebody who is completely oblivious of his stature. He is just such an lovely person.
12:07He is completely oblivious and I am so glad and completely unaffected.
12:10The right word is that, completely unaffected.
12:13And Dhurandr is also hit in the past 5 December 2025.
12:18Before that, he had a fantastic film under his, fantastic box office, hit under his belly, Uri.
12:25And article 370.
12:27He was also, yeah, partner.
12:29370, I mean, he didn't direct, but it was his film.
12:33Yeah, he was the producer of that film.
12:35But completely unaffected with the, the money power or the success that has come with, the
12:45adulation, with the adulation that he has enjoyed before Dhurandr.
12:49Completely unaffected, wonderful, comfortable.
12:51You sit, you sit one on one.
12:53What happens when you get that space to be one on one?
12:55Like how I am having this.
12:57You become flexible to talk.
12:58You become more comfortable to talk.
13:00You breathe.
13:01You understand.
13:02You put your points forward.
13:03There is no hierarchy.
13:05But it was such a small role.
13:08Yes.
13:09That's why Aditya Dar has given time for him.
13:12Yes, they have given time for him.
13:13You understand.
13:14Yes.
13:17That would have been fine as well.
13:19But this is what I am saying.
13:21This is the courage.
13:22This is the courage.
13:24This is the courage.
13:25They understand the importance of the actor's role.
13:29They understand the importance of the actor's role.
13:44It is a small part or a big part that comes tenfolds to you.
13:47And we are seeing that way.
13:48It is before us.
13:49Cut to you, how is Navasharif?
13:51Okay, whatever you might call him.
13:53How did you become?
13:54Because you don't look like him.
13:57Yes.
13:58I don't.
13:59But then again, by God's grace.
14:00And I am going to be saying this a lot.
14:01In the last interview.
14:02I am going to be saying this a lot.
14:04Yes.
14:04This is my language.
14:05What?
14:05In all the things of God's grace,
14:08God's grace, Srivji and Guruji.
14:10Guruji's grace, Guruji's grace.
14:11Guruji's grace.
14:12Guruji's grace.
14:13Guruji's grace.
14:13So much, less.
14:14This is your Guruji, always.
14:16Yes.
14:17Always.
14:18And we are all together.
14:19Yes.
14:20We are all together.
14:20Okay.
14:21So, every thing that I have turned in my life,
14:25in the same way, in the same way or in the same way,
14:28in the same way or in the same way,
14:30It's the whole kripa, it's the whole maher of Guru Ji.
14:35Anyway, not to digress.
14:37But tell me, how did you become the character?
14:40To such an extent, that this is AI-generated, this is not the actor.
14:46After this interview, I will show you the stories and the stories
14:49I will show you how to reach this way and that way.
14:53Yes, we want to know.
14:55One wrong thing is that 8 hours for me to make up.
14:58On a very good day, 1.5 hours.
15:02If I sat for 4 times in the process of making up,
15:06I sat for the first time at 2.30 to 12.00 at Priti Shilji's studio.
15:14Our first picture was clicked at 9.00 in the evening.
15:19During the shoot, it was my flight missed.
15:25I was shooting on the 31st of August 20, 24th at midnight in the morning.
15:32And I had to catch a flight to Bangkok.
15:34I almost missed that flight.
15:36By God's grace, I got that flight and then I travelled to Bangkok.
15:42Where was the set?
15:44No, we were shooting at a particular location.
15:46Okay.
15:47I suppose it was like a palace or a college.
15:51I didn't have time because I had not slept the whole night.
15:53So we reached and we started make up at 10.30 in the morning till such time
15:56that it was 6.00.
15:57And Aditya sahab actually comes into the trailer that,
16:00listen guys, how much time will it take?
16:02And when the director comes in and literally stands like right next to you.
16:05And so then the prosthetic team is also like really diligently working.
16:09And it's not something that can be sped up.
16:11It's something that takes time because you need to stick, you need things for it to dry.
16:15Right.
16:15There's an airbrushing process that needs to come in.
16:17And then the impeccable detailing of adding the moulds and the eyebrows and all that.
16:23So it does take time.
16:24But then we were also cautious because we were losing light.
16:28It had become 6 o'clock.
16:29So this is a half, half, half, nine hours, which takes place.
16:34We had a makeup test wherein I wore a, wherein Priti Shilji and her team Karan, wonderful person.
16:40And Shubham and all, they worked hard and got me into wearing a bald cap and a wig.
16:45And that was what it was.
16:47And at that point, Mr. Dhar also requested it or told me that, you know,
16:51it will make better sense for you if you put on the weight for this character.
16:55Oh.
16:55He gave me that example.
16:56You know, like it will help you understand the character better if you're within that framework,
17:02you work within that frame or within that body weight.
17:04Right.
17:05You know, you'll feel it better.
17:06But I also had to explain my prior commitments with other projects for which I could not transcend into this
17:12weight gain.
17:13Also, even if I was to gain the weight, it would not come as close to what it has come
17:19with the expertise of
17:21Ms. Priti Shilji and the vision of Mr. Dhar right now with the prosthetics.
17:25Then once that whole look came in with the wig and the bald cap, we were nowhere close.
17:30After that, it was decided.
17:32And hats off to Mr. Dhar to, you know, be so diligent with this character and be so persistent on
17:40wanting this character in the right frame.
17:43And he said, you know what, let's go all out.
17:44If we want Nawaz Sharif and if this is what it's going to take to get Nawab Shafiq, we will
17:50go forward with it.
17:51And then came the process of the prosthetics and then, yeah, one thing led to another.
17:56And after eight and a half hours, I looked similar to this personality.
18:00To Dhar.
18:01Yeah.
18:01And with no AI.
18:03There was…
18:04I'm going to prove it to you in a certain sense.
18:06I'm just…
18:07What about the voice?
18:08So that is another thing I realized.
18:11He has a very harsh and a rough voice.
18:14Okay.
18:15And you know something, it's very easy.
18:17When a character caricaturish is, Rajkumar, if he made a biopic, when a character caricaturish is, you can…
18:26It's very easy.
18:28It's sort of easy.
18:29It's not very easy.
18:29It gets easier, let me put it that way, to transcend into the shoes of that character.
18:34You know, certain things.
18:36It was very difficult with Mr. Nawab Shafiq's character.
18:39Because it's very plain on the surface.
18:44There's nothing that comes across that is caricaturish for me to adapt or for me to adopt and for me
18:52to get my body language into.
18:55For the audiences to understand within a word go that he's playing.
18:58You know, you sit a certain way and you talk a certain way.
19:02Who am I doing right now?
19:03I'm Bachchan sir.
19:04You know.
19:05So when you have a certain framework of body language and voice, it becomes easier.
19:12With this gentleman, I was really searching and searching and searching and searching until such time that I discovered.
19:18To my good fortune.
19:19Because I don't know if you are realizing this, but I move my hands a lot.
19:22I can't stop with every word and with everything that I need to explain or talk.
19:27This moves.
19:28He has, I mean, that character has the same thing.
19:30Everything is like this.
19:30Oh, good for you.
19:31So everything is like this.
19:32I tell you one thing.
19:34Your interview is very good.
19:36Your interview is very good.
19:37You look very good.
19:38You are very good.
19:39You are asking questions for such a question.
19:41Everything is very hand movement.
19:43And whenever that person wants to make a point, it goes like this.
19:47Oh, okay.
19:47So these are few things.
19:48So these are few things.
19:49You have joked.
19:50Yeah.
19:51These are few things that I try to adapt and adopt and God's been kind.
19:58It just worked out very well.
20:00Then God's been kind.
20:20And this will be different if I wear boots and boots.
20:23It changes.
20:26It changes.
20:27It changes.
20:27It changes.
20:30It changes.
20:31It changes.
20:33It changes.
20:34It changes.
20:35It changes.
20:35The makeup team and teams work with your own.
20:38You don't know yourself.
20:40You don't know yourself.
20:40You don't know your own.
20:41You don't open your phone.
21:00You work around it.
21:01I heard that you had a little bit of confidence and Mukesh Chabra had a little bit of confidence.
21:10He gave you confidence.
21:12He always gives me confidence.
21:13He always gives me confidence.
21:14See, when you question yourself, every actor, every person in any field questions themselves when you're trying for something and
21:23certain things don't culminate the way you hope for them to.
21:27What happened to you?
21:28Some times, I was thinking, what is wrong?
21:32Acting is fine with me.
21:33Anyway, I'm not working on the así.
21:37I'm not going wonders at God.
21:39I am doing my mistakes because of my music.
21:42I'm not doing my mistakes.
21:43I'm going to be working on my own and me, being a bit loud or soft or something like that.
21:47And I'm working on my own work and working on my own work.
21:54But what we want to do is that we don't have a better way because there is a higher power
22:02that is working for you that you are not able to see at that point.
22:05So if there are some things in your right then it's a good thing.
22:08If it's not, it's a good thing.
22:10Because then there is a higher power, a god's power that you want to do better and better.
22:17So yes, they have always been a good thing.
22:21I have always told you about this, but it's a good thing.
22:25Don't get confined.
22:27Don't get confined.
22:27Don't stop at that point.
22:28There are two scenes.
22:30What are you talking about?
22:32What do you mean?
22:33What is the first scene?
22:34There is only background music.
22:35The dialogue is not the same.
22:36What are you talking about?
22:37No.
22:38If you listen to this, then I am feeling the love that I am seeing and feeling.
22:43I am not ashamed of it.
22:46After the picture release, how people are reacting to you?
22:50To me, to be very honest with you, not many people know that I am that person.
22:55Now it's not something.
22:56Yes, Instagram is starting a series.
22:58YouTube is starting a series.
23:00There is a series where I am, I am the person.
23:01Mushroom Amrohi is the person.
23:03Mushroom Amrohi is the person.
23:04And people make videos and have started a series.
23:09That's where people have started a series.
23:09I have some pictures.
23:10Google is that I had a 50 year old.
23:12They have the pictures that I am living on her childhood and have got out of her.
23:16That's it.
23:17Yes.
23:17Yes, this is a series that started, but it was also a period of 3-4 days, because in the
23:22first 4 days, people thought that this is AI
23:24No, it was the idea that there were so many good videos where people were saying that Nawab Shafiq is
23:30coming from Pakistan
23:32Nawab Shafiq is coming from Pakistan or he is traveling because he is in Bollywood
23:36and then there were funny videos and memes that they were saying that they are not in Pakistan because they
23:45are in Bollywood
23:46Yes, it was a series that started, but people didn't think that this person was me
23:51I was talking about a journal about it, so when I shared this story, I said that
23:57You were in Accused? Yes, you were in Accused, Conkana Sun series
24:01Yes, you were in Accused, you were in Accused Conkana Sun series
24:06And when I shared this story, I was talking about it, they were in Accused Conkana Sun series
24:12They were asking that you are the one, you are the one, you are the one
24:15Because they didn't think that this person was the one, the one
24:19So again, with all due respect, and like I said, I am going to be saying this in every sentence
24:24or as much as I can
24:26Bhagavan said that I got to show the chance of the range of the time
24:30Because in one year, you were accused of freedom at midnight
24:36Again, God's grace
24:37Again, God's grace
24:38Three?
24:38One?
24:39Yes, and in 30 years, there is nothing like that
24:43There is nothing like that
24:43That's right
24:44So in 2008, you were in Accused with my first film?
24:46Yes
24:46You have always done my own work
24:48Yes
24:49So in my first film, you have done my own work
24:52Yes
24:53So there was also a series of series where they were going for 5-6 years
25:00And there was nothing like that
25:01And now, the series of God's grace and God's grace and God's grace
25:05And the series of freedom at midnight
25:07In Jan, Accused, there was so much love in February
25:11And Dhan Andar always remains in all of us
25:15And everyone would have done love and love
25:16And all the others should
25:16Oh no, everyone doesn't give love
25:17Some people are saying that this is a propaganda film
25:20Now, come on
25:22I'm just by this love
25:25From this love
25:26We have grown up knowing action films
25:28Comedy films
25:30Romantic films
25:31Entertaining films
25:31Horror films
25:32I never understood what a propaganda film was
25:34Till such time
25:35And I never even interested
25:37In wanting to know what a propaganda film was
25:39Till it was attached to a film's name and in that film, which I have worked on, which I have
25:46worked on, and which I have put on.
25:49So, what is the propaganda film? If I understand that, then I will tell you that it is not a
25:55propaganda film.
25:56In my mind, it says that propaganda film is a film, from what I have understood from what I asked
26:02ChatGPT and Google,
26:04a propaganda film is a film which manipulates the audience's mind and their beliefs into a certain social agenda or
26:22a political agenda.
26:23Am I right? Or am I wrong?
26:25Right, right.
26:25Okay. The whole world has seen it. It speaks of nationalism, it speaks of valor, it speaks of courage, and
26:35it speaks of a certain sense of retribution that this country was thirsty for,
26:42for the atrocities that we have, you know, bade since years. Be it the 2611 attacks, be it the Mumbai
26:53blasts.
26:54Was it happened or not?
26:55It happened or not. I am going to ask that one. And I will ask that one thing.
26:58What was the first film in this period? I will tell you, will you call 0.30 a propaganda film?
27:04No, you can't.
27:05What was the first film in this period? It was a kind of act. WTC attacks.
27:10That was a war. A thousand lives were lost.
27:15That was a man, a village leader, Usama bin Laden.
27:18That was a picture of the moment.
27:21In this picture, it was a hijack of Indian Airlines.
27:25Then it was a parliament attacks.
27:27It was a 2611 attacks.
27:30The country has had it enough.
27:32You know, the innocence of people has had enough.
27:37So, in that period, a person, the director, the director, the director,
27:42that this person will be a spy.
27:46And he will turn to India.
27:48And he will turn to India.
27:53And he will turn to India.
27:55And he will turn to India.
27:57And he will turn to India's family,
27:58This country wants to turn to India's plans.
28:02This country has been talking about what's the rights of this country.
28:08Not for the rights of this country too.
28:11Not for the people of the people of the people.
28:13No.
28:14Not for the people of the people of the people.
28:16In fact, there is a dialogue,
28:17where Ranveer tells his wife that it is not against Pakistan.
28:22It is not.
28:23It is not against certain elements.
28:24Yes, that's right.
28:25They are in every country.
28:27So if the director wants to show them, then there will be propaganda.
28:31It's not a propaganda film.
28:34What do you think?
28:35It's only being viewed this year.
28:36It's only being viewed this year.
28:39It's only being viewed this year.
28:40What do you think?
28:42It's only being viewed this year.
28:48Everyone is seeing it.
28:50The whole world is seeing it.
28:51When you see a certain film
28:53and how many films have been made?
28:56Why is the box office success?
28:58Why is the adulation so much?
28:59That's why.
29:00Because for a long time,
29:03the normal audience was real.
29:06It was a real crime.
29:08But the dark secrets
29:11that we were not real.
29:16It was a real demonetization.
29:19Propaganda,
29:20if we show a political leader,
29:24then what is the propaganda?
29:27He is our prime minister.
29:30And if the propaganda film is because of this person,
29:36then
29:36then
29:37Vivek Obraj sahab
29:38made a picture of
29:39that
29:39and
29:40that
29:41was the
29:41film
29:41that
29:42was
29:43based on a certain political leader.
29:53So it's not something that is ascertained to one political leader,
29:57or a party,
29:58or a particular religion,
29:59or a particular sector,
30:00or a particular community.
30:01If you are a journalist,
30:04what happens when
30:05a person goes to the theatre
30:07and sees pictures?
30:08It's two ways.
30:10One,
30:10when a man goes to the intrigue value,
30:12what is the picture?
30:14What is the entertainment value?
30:15Yes.
30:16There was a great deal.
30:18There were two ways
30:18that the audience were trolled.
30:20There was a intrigue value
30:21and entertainment.
30:23There was a lot of anger.
30:27There was a lot of anger.
30:28It was a great deal.
30:28It was a great deal.
30:28Because we saw that
30:29that we had our demonetization
30:31to our people
30:32and it was about 500,000
30:33and the notes were made.
30:34Now I understand
30:35what?
30:36So other things
30:37are great.
30:38It is a good deal.
30:57I agree with you.
31:09Who has shown that speech? Aditya Dhar, Bill Clinton has shown that speech?
31:13No, right?
31:14Those who have accepted it, who have made a decision,
31:19with so much backlash that came in at the time that this was taking place,
31:25when the demonetization was taking place.
31:27There was a lot of backlash that he faced when the political party faced.
31:33Because he didn't know why it happened.
31:35Exactly.
31:35Suddenly, one night we got to know that the note of 500 and 1000 rupiah has gone and changed the
31:40bank.
31:41And we could do so until we got to know that it was green, green, green and green.
31:48So, when we got to know all these things,
31:51we got to know that it was demonetization.
31:54Oh, when the attack was in 2611,
31:56there were also many pictures.
31:58But when you look at the scene where Rampal, Akshay Khanna, Ankit Saagar,
32:04there were all these things and these people have both emotions.
32:07You feel it when the dialogue was told,
32:09you don't have a deal, let it go.
32:12You don't have to know what you have to do.
32:14They also feel a lot of anger, pain,
32:19They feel a lot of anger,
32:22and they feel a lot of anger,
32:25and they feel a lot of anger.
32:26They feel a lot of anger.
32:32Hussain and then release it
32:34And after that, we are seeing that
32:37Those who have so much hatred
32:39How do we give it to us?
32:41That's why we made it a film
32:44So, you have to say it in the picture?
32:46I have to say it in the picture
32:47I have to say it in the propaganda film
32:47It's not a good film
32:49It's entertainment, courage, valor, idealism, nationalism
32:57It should be a very small film
33:00If a film is propagating your country
33:04The love that you should have for your country
33:06What is it?
33:08We should all aspire for the courage and the valor that Jaskirat Singh Rangi has for his country
33:14It doesn't do it
33:15But it's good to see it
33:18We inspire it
33:20So, why not?
33:21It's not a propaganda film at all
33:22To sum it up
33:24You said something
33:29If this is happening in our country
33:32Then who has done it?
33:35It should be seen
33:37You said that after all that Maulana was not found in Yashchopra Lake
33:42Yes, I was saying that
33:45Just talk about that
33:46Yeah, yeah
33:47You know he was not found in that Yashchopra Lake
33:49He was not found in Bangkok where he was shooting
33:51You remember you said that?
33:53Yes, I will
33:54Something like that will make you very nice
33:55You said it's not some alien who came and did it
33:58So, they've got to show where they came from
34:00Where did you come from?
34:01Where did you come from?
34:02You're not giving any country in any country
34:04But if there are some things that happened
34:07I was just watching this
34:09The other day I was watching this
34:13The Enquirer
34:14British magazine
34:15Do you know about this?
34:16Yeah
34:16Has made a statement that
34:17Why are they calling this film a propaganda film?
34:20On what ground are you calling this a propaganda film?
34:22Because it shows the Prime Minister of this country in two scenes
34:25That is in regards with counter-terrorism and demonetization
34:30What is wrong in that?
34:33Do we question James Bond when he's the Queen's, the Crown's weapon
34:39And going all around the world killing people or whatever
34:41Killing the bad guys
34:43Nobody
34:43So, if you have a film made in which you are showing real life incidents
34:50That are terrible
34:52And the pain of the pain
34:54And the pain of the body is now
34:55And the pain of the body is now
34:57And the pain of the body is now
34:57So, if we talk about that incident
35:01Then, someone who was loyal to that incident
35:05He asked him
35:06Who was here?
35:08He asked him
35:09He asked him
35:09He asked him
35:14He asked him
35:17And when he just went
35:22And
35:38It was
35:41There were some other people who took the name of that country, but there was a difference between us that
35:46whatever happens is in the same country.
35:50So what do we do? We will show them the same way.
35:53We will show them the same way.
35:55It's like the Shahid Bhagat Singh.
35:57There was a series of Shahid Bhagat Singh films.
36:00We had seen the atrocities in America.
36:03We had seen the Jalen-Wala-Bag Kayseri in Australia.
36:07We had seen the United Kingdom in England.
36:09We will show them the flag behind you.
36:12Yes, it is.
36:13That is the same.
36:15When General Dyer had the Jalen-Wala-Bag Kayseri in the Jalen-Wala-Bag, it was a flag.
36:20Because the film was on the authority.
36:22There were films in the 26-11 and the 2001 Parliament attacks.
36:27If we had to show a country, it would be another country.
36:32It would be simple.
36:34I don't even know why it's such a big deal.
36:38It's a big deal.
36:39It's a big deal.
36:40It's a big deal.
36:46It's a big deal.
37:08Yes.
37:08Okay.
37:08If it's a big deal, it's a big deal.
37:09If it's not, then you won't get anything.
37:11I forgot about five sentences.
37:14This is my life's standard.
37:16If it's a big deal, then it's all.
37:18There will be some reason.
37:18There will be some reason.
37:19Yes.
37:19Panchami Ghavari Casting had a phone.
37:24Anubhuti Ji had a different dimension.
37:26I will give it to Anubhuti Ji.
37:29And I will give it.
37:30Full credit to Anubhuti Ji to perceive me as a character that I never thought I was ever going to
37:36get a chance to play.
37:37With the salt and pepper beard and the cardigans.
37:39I never thought I would ever, ever.
37:41Even if I would, it would take me a nice smile.
37:44It would take me a nice smile.
37:45It would take me a nice smile.
37:46It would take me a nice smile.
37:48Then I would get a nice smile.
37:50It would take me a nice smile.
37:53It would take me a nice smile.
37:54It would take me a nice smile.
37:54I don't know if you can get.
37:55But I am a pretty hyper person in terms of.
37:58And there is a lot of enthusiasm.
37:59Correct, correct, correct.
38:00I am pretty fast.
38:01And at that point, you are different.
38:02You are different.
38:02You are different.
38:04You are different.
38:05I am different.
38:06I am different.
38:07Again, full credit to Anubhuti Ji.
38:09But the goal for me to reach Anubhuti Ji.
38:11For me to reach and be at that office at Dharmatic.
38:15Worse is obviously God's grace.
38:17And that is the sole criteria.
38:18So how did it get?
38:21How did it get?
38:22And what was it like working at it?
38:24I have been investigating.
38:26God has been so kind.
38:27I have had a fantastic experience working with all these three projects.
38:32That have, you know, culminated and happened.
38:34One after the other.
38:35With your work.
38:36What was it like?
38:37Yes.
38:39Fantastic patience.
38:40And secure.
38:42That is so important to be as an actor.
38:44She is so secure.
38:45In terms of me probably, I have a certain habit of maybe ad-libbing.
38:52Or maybe overstepping a certain parameter of my dialogue.
38:57Or maybe showing a little more in terms of action or a joke.
39:03That I suppose.
39:05That I suppose.
39:06If I don't understand the same way.
39:07If I don't understand the same way.
39:07Maybe the audience will understand the same way.
39:08They will laugh.
39:09If I do something else.
39:11Never.
39:12Always.
39:13Very accepting of that.
39:15And always very encouraging.
39:16So it's wonderful.
39:18It's wonderful.
39:18My Zadha Tarseens and Monica Mahindru.
39:22Most wonderful experience working with them.
39:24So again.
39:25The film started with Panchami Ghavri Ji casting.
39:28There is Sunil Sharma.
39:30He is a person.
39:32He has auditioned for me.
39:34Did you do something to fit into that character?
39:37Yes.
39:38It's a simple thing.
39:39I never took it as a simple audition.
39:41It's another thing.
39:42Always go beyond the idea of what the audition demands.
39:45Okay.
39:46You know.
39:46Don't confine yourself to what the.
39:49Listen to what.
39:50You know.
39:50You can never do until you don't listen.
39:52Stop talking.
39:53Not now.
39:54Right now.
39:56I'm going to interview you with me.
39:58I'm going to interview you.
39:59But stop talking.
40:01Listen.
40:03And absorb.
40:04And then try and add a little bit of your own culture to that character.
40:07Because.
40:08See.
40:09You don't have to audition alone.
40:12There are some other people.
40:14Okay.
40:14There are some other able people.
40:16Yes.
40:16You will be different.
40:17You will be different.
40:18You will be different.
40:20You will be different.
40:20This is what I want.
40:22The different things I did was that.
40:25When the camera was set up.
40:27And I said.
40:28You will sit here.
40:29And you will start taking.
40:31I said.
40:31You will do it.
40:32If you want to do it.
40:33You will be different.
40:33Keep your camera.
40:33I will start.
40:34My attitude is that.
40:36You will be saying action.
40:37I will go from the door.
40:38Before I came from the door.
40:39Before I came from the door.
40:40I gave a few sentences.
40:43To sort of get the gist of the character.
40:45To you know.
40:46Elaborate the character's persona in the office space.
40:49And then I said.
40:50I was sitting there.
40:51Now that little thing.
40:52I was surprised Anubuti ji.
40:54Karthavajjul.
40:54Okay.
40:55And that may have struck a chord.
40:57In terms of understanding.
40:58Oh.
40:58Maybe he can play this character.
40:59I didn't look anything to what I looked like.
41:02It was another.
41:03Again.
41:03I went in for that audition.
41:04Clean shaven.
41:05With specs.
41:06Nothing to what.
41:07You know.
41:07Culminated.
41:09From the end of the creative.
41:10At the end of the room.
41:11Yeah.
41:11With Jaidi Bhargav at that point.
41:13So.
41:13It all.
41:14Comes across with God's grace.
41:16And with.
41:17Just divine blessings from many.
41:19That's how I see it.
41:21So you.
41:21And.
41:21You know.
41:22Life has completely changed.
41:24Abhi.
41:25Eek saal mein.
41:26Thien.
41:27Alag-alag rules.
41:27God's grace.
41:28Again.
41:29Yeah.
41:30Just tell me.
41:31Aapko kya hua.
41:33Aapkisko mille kya hua.
41:3524 nahi.
41:36Dekhi.
41:37It's.
41:38You talked about.
41:39Meeting Guru ji.
41:40That was.
41:4121st.
41:42March.
41:422025.
41:44First.
41:44My life.
41:46Thodi.
41:46Patri.
41:47Pakadri.
41:47With.
41:48Sai Baba.
41:49You know.
41:50Sai Baba's.
41:51Daya.
41:51And Kripa.
41:53Then.
41:54Something within my heart.
41:56Just.
41:57Propelled me.
41:58Towards.
41:59The.
42:00Wonderful.
42:00Strength.
42:01Of.
42:01Hanuman ji.
42:02And.
42:04Chib.
42:05Dekhi.
42:05Kya hojata hai.
42:06Let's not.
42:07That will be a complete.
42:08I don't want to digress into that.
42:10Conversation with.
42:11Believes.
42:12Shaddha.
42:13Just.
42:13Shaddha.
42:14Pancas.
42:14If.
42:15So.
42:16If.
42:17If.
42:17If.
42:17Everything.
42:18If.
42:19If.
42:19If.
42:27A.
42:28If.
42:29If.
42:32If.
42:32If.
42:33If.
42:34It's a little bit more than the Sabauri.
42:37Hanuman Ji also says, let's give a little more power.
42:40So when things happen to you, it happens to you,
42:43and this is a grip.
42:44Then the work is automatically coming.
42:48I never thought that there are two scenes,
42:51there are three scenes, there are four scenes.
42:53I am feeling the love of God's grip by the blessings of many,
43:01including you.
43:04It's because I was persistent, I was determined,
43:08and I was honest to my work,
43:09and I never got myself flumaxed with the idea
43:12that I will only want to do a main role,
43:14or a supporting role,
43:15or this.
43:16I had to say,
43:17one thing I had to say,
43:19is that the work is done.
43:21And I was thinking about it.
43:24Whatever you have to do,
43:26do it with the rest of your life,
43:27do it with the rest of your life,
43:28and do it with the rest of your life.
43:39If you're an artist,
43:41if you're a superstar,
43:43then it's a different body language of work and thinking.
43:46But if you want to be an actor and an artist,
43:47then my brain is pretty good.
43:50Or I said,
43:53that I was a hero hang-up.
43:55No, man.
43:57You have to become a hero,
43:58you have to fight,
43:59you have to do romance,
44:00you have to be a heroine,
44:03you have to be a villain,
44:04you have to be a villain.
44:17And I will give you Aditya Dhar Ji. Why? Because Nikhil Advani Ji, that was the first project that started
44:25the series of work for me and the blessings that came.
44:27So with my work in Freedom at Midnight, I had the right expressions and the right body language and the
44:36right expressions and the lines were coming out right.
44:37At one point Nikhil Ji mentioned that the importance of internalizing your character. That is so important.
44:45Once you touch that process of acting and once you internalize the character, you become so close to the character
44:51and you feel the character.
44:53And if you enjoy that process of internalizing the character, then sky is the limit and even more.
45:02Then you just feel so wonderfully close to your profession. You just feel so, yeah, it's fulfilling.
45:10You know, so then that was one thing. The other thing was when the prosthetics of Nawab Shafiq came in,
45:18I suddenly had to only rely on acting.
45:21There were no other frills that I could attach myself with. No, I could not play, not that I say
45:27the looks are of any concern with me and to me.
45:30I'm not saying that. But there's no style with that character. There's no, yeah, I mean, there is a massive
45:37personality to that character.
45:38But there's nothing that the conventional charming scenario with that character for me to, you know, bag the audience's love
45:45and the appreciation and the respect that I'm getting right now by God's grace.
45:48So when you submit to a certain character, when you love acting, so these basically these roles gave me the
45:55chops to understand acting, to love acting and to submit and surrender to the character.
45:59Once that happened, the mind suddenly traversed on a very different line of work of pursuing that line of work
46:08of enjoying a certain kind of work and not being confined.
46:11You know, you were talking about Konkana that she's very secure. Yeah.
46:16Do you think that Ranveer Singh is very secure?
46:20Supremely.
46:21Right?
46:22That's right.
46:23That's right.
46:23That's right.
46:23That's right.
46:24That's right.
46:24That's right.
46:25So I have taken the name of Konkana.
46:27Yes, yes.
46:28Of course, extremely secure.
46:29What's your experience with him?
46:32First, I have known him as my younger brother's friend.
46:36And.
46:37He's Bilal's friend.
46:38He's a classmate.
46:41And he and I shared a fantastic rapport of respect and love and hugs and warmth as well.
46:48But never had the opportunity to work with him.
46:51You know, this was my first experience.
46:54Wonderful.
46:54And I'm not just saying because it's the political thing to say.
46:57It's the politically correct thing to say.
46:58Oh, okay.
46:59He's the actor of a film.
47:00I've shared screen space with him.
47:01Why ruffle any feathers?
47:03This is the right thing to say.
47:04So, you know Bharti ji, he's wonderful, lovely.
47:06No, it's not that.
47:07He's genuinely a very secure person.
47:09Totally.
47:10Totally.
47:10You can see.
47:11Okay.
47:11And I don't need to say it myself.
47:12The actions are there for it to be validated.
47:15In instances where if you see, where I'm walking with him down the stairs in a particular sequence.
47:22Right.
47:22In my entry sequence.
47:23I was asked to just, just have one tap.
47:26I went ballistic tapping him because that's the language, that's the body language I tried to ascertain with Nawab Shafiq.
47:33Right.
47:34Completely comfortable.
47:35And within that, as soon as we cut, bro, that was good.
47:38You know, so that sense of appreciation and that sense of confidence that gets built up with your co-actor
47:44from your co-actor is very important.
47:46Right.
47:46Because A, then you suddenly realize, okay, I'm in a comfortable environment.
47:50There's no ego, no feathers are being ruffled over here.
47:53It's a wonderful working environment.
47:55And we're all working towards the same goal, which is the betterment of the film.
47:58One character looks off, the whole scene looks off.
48:01Yeah.
48:01So, my criteria is to make sure that I'm in place as an actor.
48:05I'm alright.
48:07Ranveer is doing his great chops as always.
48:10The directors.
48:10So, there was no confusion about, you know, somebody's overstepping his boundaries and, you know, taking a little more space
48:17or a little more shadow than he should or she should for that matter.
48:21Yeah.
48:21Yeah.
48:21So, fantastic experience.
48:22And, yeah, I mean, knowing someone personally was always helpful, is always helpful.
48:28Yeah.
48:28But when we are within the, you know, boundaries of the set, it's all professional.
48:34Yeah.
48:34And everyone's about their character and engrossed with their lines and trying to feel the person and the character.
48:39Right.
48:39I want to step out of all these assignments and talk to you about Kamal Amrohi, your grandfather.
48:45Yes.
48:46You were very small when you went through, right?
48:49In 1993.
48:49Yes.
48:50Yes.
48:51So, do you remember him?
48:53Do you remember him?
48:55And do you remember him?
48:56And do you remember him?
49:11Yes.
49:13Yes.
49:14Yes.
49:14Yes.
49:22Yes.
49:24Yes.
49:26Yes.
49:28Yes.
49:28Yes.
49:30Yes.
49:31Yes.
49:33Yes.
49:35I know that I was involved in the films, and a career.
49:39So, I felt that I felt like this.
49:41and he was very calm, very calm, very calm, very calm and soft-spoken person.
49:51That was the feeling of feeling.
49:53By God's grace, I was born in their family.
49:59I felt the feeling of feeling of feeling about them when I was covering them.
50:03I felt like my son was born in my family.
50:04I felt like Nida Fadli, Siddak, Rajendra Kumar and these different personalities.
50:12They talked about them, I was talking about them.
50:16When he saw this story, even if Levin is not young.
50:22You are old enough to understand someone who was well known and a celebrity.
50:27And in my opinion, when he was a big filmmaker, he was a big filmmaker and obviously, by God's
50:45grace, as one grows up, when you take a name, people say, come on, and then you have to
50:50explain, oh, he's my grandfather.
50:52And then the respect and the adulation and the love you get and how fondly and the tremendous
50:58respect with which they speak of him, it's very humbling.
51:02It's very humbling there after that.
51:04But after that, when you grew up, you listened to his four wives and his Meena Kumari romance
51:11and all that.
51:12No, he had, okay, he had, okay, at different points, he had four wives.
51:19The first wife passed to me.
51:20Yeah.
51:21Okay.
51:21Let me just clear that.
51:22Bilkis.
51:22No.
51:23Bilkis was the fourth.
51:24Okay.
51:24He had four wives.
51:25The first wife before Amma, my daddy.
51:29Your grandmother.
51:30She passed away.
51:31Okay.
51:32To the best of my knowledge.
51:33Then Amma.
51:34He married Amma.
51:36Meena ji, we all know about.
51:38And that's their personal relationship.
51:41And it's a wonderful relationship that they had till such time that I think there were differences between the two.
51:46She passed away in 1972.
51:47I was born in 82.
51:49Till 92, I was unaware of what was happening.
51:53From what I'm understanding right now about the culture of the relationship or what transpired was that, yeah, there were
52:00ego clashes and there were differences.
52:04Sometimes it's alright when, you know, the other person sort of compromises.
52:09Here, obviously there were things that I can't speak about because I wasn't there to see it.
52:15I didn't have the knowledge or I still maybe don't have enough, the complete knowledge to make any comment on
52:20their marriage.
52:23But they don't talk about their marriage.
52:24Meena ji.
52:26Meena ji.
52:27Meena ji.
52:27Meena ji.
52:28Obviously, my father is very fond of her.
52:30Your daddy talks a lot about her.
52:31Meena ji.
52:32Yeah.
52:32My father talks.
52:33He talks about his childhood.
52:34And I'm like, okay.
52:35Let's talk about it.
52:38My little mother was good.
52:40Very good.
52:41Good.
52:45She used to like children.
52:46Yes, she used to love her.
52:48She used to love her.
52:49And she was very fond of him.
52:50And there were some stories of them that she got into the college.
52:56So, there were some instances where it was about.
53:00How can we hear from them?
53:02How can we hear from them?
53:03Then we just hear from them.
53:04We've heard from them.
53:04The little daddy is a baby.
53:05And we're proud of her.
53:06We're proud of her achievements, we're proud of her work, her lineage, her body of work.
53:10It's fantastic.
53:11But you don't feel a special fascination that this has happened in your house.
53:17Yes, now I do.
53:18In your family.
53:18Yes, I saw Pakiza.
53:19Unfortunately, I saw Pakiza very late.
53:21And that's when I realized she's the best actress I've ever seen.
53:25That's when I realized.
53:26With all due respects to the other actresses, they're all fantastic.
53:29They're all superb.
53:31They're all amazing.
53:32Every actress is amazing.
53:34But to me, if you personally ask me, I'm a fan of her acting as...
53:40in terms of, you know, extreme superlatives that can be ascertained, that she's fantastic with her.
53:47With the charisma with which she has played Sahib Jan in Pakiza.
53:52I'm a big fan of Shreeji.
53:54And these are two individuals that are ascertained as great actors.
53:58Okay.
53:58Yeah.
53:59All are also great actors.
54:01But to me, I've just about realized that, yeah, that she's fantastic.
54:05I saw Pakiza very late.
54:06Okay.
54:07Unfortunately.
54:07Yeah, unfortunately.
54:08I just thought, having grown up here and you're now old enough to understand, read here.
54:14Yeah, but when I was young, the biggest superstar, because that's how your age and your understanding, you know, comprehends
54:21things, was Mazal Khan.
54:23Yes, so for us, when Mazal Mama was working in Bunyad and at some point I was in primary school
54:29and he visited Learners Academy and when he came in to meet me at school, the whole school went ballistic.
54:37And then seniors that were always having their callers up were like, you know Mazal Khan, you know Mazal Khan.
54:43So for me, obviously, in that age, you understand certain things with a certain dimension, right?
54:49So at that point, my dimension was Mazal Mama and his, you know, group of friends and at that time
54:55he was making gangs.
54:55So I understood that culture of celebrities or people who are famous and well-known, you know.
55:01So for me, growing up before, Jackie Shroff Sahib, Nana Patikar Sahib, Kumar Gaurav Sahib, Javed Sahib, these were the
55:09people that later when, if I may say so, when maturity came in and I don't even know.
55:16And you were introduced to your family.
55:19Who?
55:19You got introduced to all that happened in your family.
55:22Yes, yes, obviously, in that sense that, you know, I mean, this is who, this is what it is and
55:25you, you saw that closely and that is what, you know, sort of struck a chord with your attention with
55:30you.
55:31But with my grandfather, obviously, now I realize and I'm humbled with each day and each minute with the lineage
55:36that I come from and the wonderful work that he's done, the love and the respect.
55:41And it's Kamal Nistan's studio too.
55:43No, he gave it.
55:44He gave it, but we've seen that also.
55:47No, no, no, no, but he gave it a tremendous respect.
55:49That's, that's very humbling.
55:51You know, I'm blessed to be a part of this family for that, for many reasons, for every reasons.
55:57Why just Kamal Sahib, for every reason.
55:59For my grandmother, for my choti dadi, for my father, for my mom, for my brother, for my sister-in
56:03-law, for my wife, for my Afua, for everyone, for my sister, Taabir, everyone.
56:08And cheers to Dorandar that has brought you back.
56:11Thank you, sorry for repeating so much more time.
56:13No, no, no.
56:14But yeah, thank you.
56:15A lot of love.
56:16I just wish to say, I'm not on social platform, but to whoever's, you know, showing, has shown so much
56:21love.
56:21And the lovely memes and the sarcasms that have been thrown and lashed at Mr. Shafiq's persona.
56:31Thank you so much.
56:32Thank you so much.
56:32It's so overwhelming.
56:33So now what, after this?
56:36Now, by God's grace, I have India Saab's, I don't know if I'm allowed to diverge that, but again, by
56:42God's grace, that's something that's coming up in June.
56:46And then thereafter that, God knows better.
56:49Okay.
56:49God knows best.
56:51Because you did, you were shooting in Bangkok recently.
56:54I was, I was.
56:55But then again, I'm not allowed to diverge that right now.
56:58Right.
56:59But given the time, nobody knew.
57:00That's been the scenario with me.
57:02Nobody, none of my friends knew I was a part of war till such time that war came out.
57:05None of them know, knew that I was a part of accused till such time that accused came out.
57:10Not many people know I'm a part of Dharandar.
57:13Because not many people have learnt or taken the trouble.
57:16It's not come right in their faces that this person is Nawab Shafiq.
57:20So, it's because of the non-disclosure?
57:23No.
57:24Nazar, I'm just very wary of it.
57:26Okay, you say it's not the same person.
57:27When it's good, when it comes out, we'll talk about it.
57:30Right.
57:31So, what do you need to talk about it first?
57:32Yes, it's not the same person, but I'm very scared from the perspective of it.
57:36Okay.
57:37What's the benefit of the last thing about it?
57:39What's the benefit of the last thing?
57:41When it comes out, we'll talk in front of it.
57:43So, there's a lot of things coming out now.
57:46There's a lot of things coming out.
57:47Okay.
57:47There's a lot of things coming out from God's sake.
57:48Okay.
57:49From the Guru's sake.
57:50Okay.
57:50From the Guru's sake.
57:50From the Guru's sake and the Guru's sake.
57:51And on that note, best of luck to you.
57:53I love you. God bless you.
57:54Best of luck to you.
57:56Thank you, Mati, auntie.
57:56Thank you so much.
57:57Many more to you.
57:58May I do.
58:01Always see you.
58:03Alhamdulillah.
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