00:00Congratulations, Badai Ho. The trailer has been well received.
00:03We have read very good comments.
00:06First thing that I want to know from each one of you.
00:09Sub artists, you know, in press conferences or in interviews, they say,
00:13we have learned this from a senior actor or a junior actor.
00:18I want to know from each one of you,
00:20what have you unlearned from this process?
00:25Because there are so many things.
00:27That's such a good question, different question.
00:29It's like the opposite of the normal question.
00:32Very good.
00:35What did I learn I should unlearn?
00:38I think, you know, when you see some...
00:40I read, actually, I was going to pretend it's my idea,
00:42but actually I read it.
00:45Thanks.
00:46When you see something great, like in a co-star acting,
00:51you should...
00:52Instead of just saying, wow, they're great or whatever,
00:55you have to understand why it's affecting you
00:58or why it's moving you and try and learn something from that.
01:02So both of them have affected me deeply
01:08because they're such lovely, good actors.
01:11So I haven't unlearned anything.
01:13I think, if anything, I've learned to pay attention and to kind of...
01:20Actually, I forgot the line wasn't that.
01:23It was, don't judge it, don't judge what you see,
01:26but kind of just react to why you're finding them great
01:31and try and learn something from it.
01:32So you learn from actors all the time.
01:34When you see something good, you're like, oh, you know...
01:37Actually, this is a very valid point that when you meet someone,
01:40you are in awe of that person.
01:42But at times you don't know that, you know,
01:45what actually is that X factor in that person.
01:47So if you try and understand that, what is it?
01:50Is it the stillness or, you know, is it the...
01:54So try and observe a little more maybe.
01:57I don't know. Sorry, I'm not...
01:59It's like playing many innings might not be my best.
02:03So I'll just pass it on to...
02:05Number three batsman coming in.
02:12I'll give it to Sachin.
02:18I don't know. Some actors have this very beautiful quality
02:23and Seth definitely does.
02:25Unfortunately, Manish and I didn't have any...
02:26Unfortunately, Manish doesn't have that.
02:29Manish and I didn't have any...
02:33Quality, unfortunately, but it's okay.
02:35I did not say that.
02:37Thank you for that.
02:38I did not say that.
02:40Unfortunately, Manish and I didn't have any scenes together this time,
02:44but I've worked with him before on two projects actually.
02:47And it was lovely then for her.
02:49Powder and POW.
02:52POW.
02:53But coming back...
02:53POW is almost powder.
02:55Yeah, POW.
02:57POW.
02:58POW.
02:58POW.
02:59And that's POWDER.
03:04That's POWDER.
03:08Yes.
03:09They just...
03:10He's just upset he got out and he had four runs to make.
03:13No, no, no.
03:13It's fine.
03:14It's fine.
03:14I'm just hoping you'll answer this.
03:16What is...
03:16What did you unlearn?
03:18Yeah.
03:18So there are, you know, things that we discuss ki aapne set par...
03:23I'm not asking about a particular person.
03:24That's like...
03:25But generally on a set that, you know, there is a process that you learn and unlearn.
03:29So learning thing we always discuss, but unlearning something and then, you know...
03:35You mean you saw them do something which was not working?
03:38Yeah.
03:39Yeah, exactly.
03:39You can't ask that question.
03:41That's not right.
03:42No, I had an unlearning thing, not maybe in this one movie in Netflix.
03:45When I worked with a director, he said...
03:50I walked in, I did the shot in a certain way.
03:52And he said, no, no, no, no.
03:54Your energy is all wrong.
03:55You know, you have to come down.
03:57You're playing a loser.
03:59So stop doing what, you know, how you would do and become like...
04:04So let's just slow down and just, you know...
04:06So that is kind of unlearning, right?
04:08Exactly.
04:09Well, I finally understood the question.
04:10Yes, yes, yes.
04:11So, would you mind if I ask...
04:14Second innings, 25.
04:16Would you mind if I ask you the name of the film and director?
04:19Yeah, it was Mr. Motwani in Sacred Games.
04:23I thought I had to come inside the room and investigate something.
04:26So I came in like, I'm going to investigate this crime.
04:29He's like, what are you doing?
04:30Cut.
04:32I mean, I don't even want to investigate this thing.
04:35My life sucks.
04:36I just want to go home.
04:38Okay.
04:38Now that the question is clear, would you like to answer this one?
04:42Manish, do you want to go home?
04:44So what I understand of the question is that you look at somebody on a set that you're working with
04:53and you look at them and you're like, damn, I need to unlearn something to be able to do that.
04:59No?
05:00Exactly, exactly.
05:01Yeah.
05:01So that's how I understand it.
05:03Yeah.
05:03And that one person on the set of Kartta View will be Sanjay Bhai.
05:09Rewiring yourself by unwiring somebody.
05:13Term in physics.
05:14Oh.
05:15Basic electrics.
05:17So Sanjay Bhai is somebody that I've always looked up to.
05:23And so when we did a scene together and I was just like looking at him.
05:27He's just sitting.
05:28And when he sits, he just sits.
05:31And yeah.
05:32And he's got his mouth like, and I'm just like, how does he, how is he able to just really
05:39just sit and do nothing else?
05:41Yes.
05:42So, yeah.
05:43So that's something that I'm not able to do a lot of times.
05:46And I would like to rewire myself and be able to do that.
05:50Not so much with my mouth so much, no?
05:52But just the, just the thing that he manages to do with just doing one or two things and nothing
06:00more.
06:00I think that's very special.
06:02Have you ever been like not good in a movie?
06:04You'll have to put the mic.
06:05Have you ever not been good?
06:07Yes.
06:07And like in a scene?
06:09Yes.
06:09Is there something you do to then make it good?
06:15Yeah, but I don't know what that is.
06:16What is that thing?
06:17You can't, you're not gonna.
06:18I believe they all know like great act.
06:20They don't want to tell anyone also firstly.
06:22No, no, no.
06:22Okay.
06:22Tell me, please.
06:24No.
06:25Discuss later.
06:26I'm as clueless as anybody else is.
06:28So it's just instinct and just how you are.
06:30Just, it's just good.
06:31It's just the way it is.
06:32Thanks.
06:35Sorry, sorry.
06:36No, no.
06:36There are some actors who are able to sort of understand what's happening on the set entirely
06:47and to their job also, which I saw Saif do very beautifully.
06:51And I feel that sometimes when I'm on set, I can only be in my own head a little bit.
06:57And not really be able to carry everybody together with me and not even sort of take on that responsibility.
07:08And so I unlearned how to do that because I saw him do that so beautifully.
07:14Yes.
07:15Thank you so much.
07:17So, yeah.
07:18So now talking about Kartavya.
07:20There are obviously after the surge of OTT, there are so many crime dramas across all platform.
07:29And you will read the comments on Twitter and Instagram.
07:33So I know makers and platform, they make all effort to make it look different by having different plot and
07:40different storyline.
07:41But as an actor, what effort do you all take to, you know, to bring something new?
07:47Like if you work in the same genre again and again?
07:50It's a good question.
07:52For me, I think the idea is to play the person, right?
07:57Not just the cop.
07:59So they're all people are obviously different.
08:02And I mean, if I had to do the same thing again, like a rooted cop with, you know, that
08:09dialect and that kind of thing, how do you make it?
08:12Somehow the director creates a different environment.
08:15That's where he comes in.
08:15You know, and the producers also have to figure out why and how this show is going to look different
08:21to others.
08:22It must be difficult because a lot of people like watching crime dramas and it's a big genre.
08:29So how do you make it different?
08:30Actually, I don't know.
08:32I guess if you're true to yourself, then there's nobody like you.
08:37So hopefully if we're all true to ourselves and bring a bit of ourselves to that character.
08:42And if the writing and the director also does that, then it becomes a little bit unique in its own
08:47way, right?
08:48Hopefully.
08:49What else can it be?
08:50I don't know.
08:51Pretty much similar to what Seth said.
08:53I feel like even if it's the same genre, every script is different.
08:57No two scripts are like each other.
08:59And there's a new voice telling a new story.
09:01And there are new people putting in their own experiences, their own aspirations, their own prejudices into the work, you
09:09know.
09:09So it turns out to be different every single time.
09:13So no two things can be the same.
09:16So the idea is never or the worry is never that we should try and do something different.
09:23The preoccupation is that we should try and do something which is authentic.
09:30Aha.
09:31Yes.
09:32If it's authentic, then it's kind of different.
09:37Unique in that sense.
09:39So as an actor, I am part of a much larger machinery.
09:46There's somebody who spent a couple of years writing it.
09:48Then the director came in and decided or maybe the director wrote it himself or herself.
09:52Then there's all the other actors in the ensemble.
09:58So if I'm going to take the responsibility of, oh, I have to do something different every time I'm in
10:04the same genre.
10:05Because actually there's only three or four or five genres that you're going to be working through your career.
10:10There's, you know, there's a love story.
10:12There's the cops and gangsters.
10:13There's the horror.
10:14There's a couple others.
10:15And that's it.
10:17So if I take that responsibility upon myself, I don't think I'll be able to perform well at all.
10:23Because they'll just be way above my pay grade to be saying that, oh, I must do something different now
10:29and I must do something different now.
10:30And I think as you keep working as an actor, you keep changing in any case.
10:36So the next thing that I'm going to do, I hope to have a little more skill from the things
10:41that I've done before.
10:42So I can quite naturally and organically do it a little differently.
10:45That's a great answer, actually, because we're not the same people all the time.
10:48We're not the same people all the time.
10:50So, yeah, that's what I think.
10:52So, the question is for Saif. Sorry, I hope it's okay.
10:56So, you are working with Red Chillies.
10:59So, and with SRK, you are friends and family friends.
11:03So, has there been any feedback from them for this one?
11:07I mean, very feedback.
11:09Few words, but nice words.
11:11The feedback after the film was finished, he said, I really liked the movie.
11:15And that it's going to get, this is some time ago.
11:17He said, I'm going to get a great release for it.
11:19And it's going to be fab, that kind of thing.
11:21Okay.
11:22So, I'm really interested to know one more thing.
11:25That there are times that you get offered a certain project or film from a production
11:30house or company.
11:35So, has it happened to you that even if you don't like that project or don't want to be
11:39on board that you have said yes to it?
11:45Maybe a little bit here and there sometimes things get a little, I mean you do film, you
11:50do things in life for different reasons sometimes, you know, as long as you know what that reason
11:55is.
11:58And mostly, yeah, that's the simplest way of putting it.
12:03So, there might come a time where, yes, you might do something for a relationship.
12:09But usually, you have to like it also.
12:12I don't think I, I keep saying, listen, if I only did this for the relationship, then I
12:18won't be good because I don't love it.
12:20And if you don't love it, then it's irresponsible, I think, as an actor too.
12:24Even any normal, sensible producer would not want you unless you're passionately involved.
12:31But I tell you, it is a thing.
12:33Sometimes you might say, you do things in life for different reasons.
12:36Yeah.
12:37You know.
12:38Okay.
12:38Now talking about social media.
12:40You are not on social media.
12:41But you are and others too.
12:43Are you not?
12:43No, I'm not.
12:45I don't have a, but I'm aware of what's happening.
12:49Exactly.
12:49Yeah.
12:50Sorry.
12:50So, since you said that you're aware and I know you are aware too.
12:55So, you know, instantly, you know, all the reactions start coming whenever any teaser
12:59comes, trailer comes.
13:00And do you think that audience have become very intelligent and critical at the same time that, you
13:05know, they know so much about everything that they start comparing.
13:08And, you know, at the same time, it becomes very critical.
13:12I don't know.
13:13I feel the audience has always been very intelligent.
13:15I don't like it when, I have heard this line so often in this, in films that where people
13:20say, audiences become very intelligent.
13:23I think they've always been, it'd be really nice if, it'd be so easy if everyone was really
13:28dumb.
13:29You could just, you could just get away with really mediocre stuff and say, do this.
13:35You know, and everyone would be like, wow, this incredible stuff is happening.
13:39So, I mean, there are high standards and Netflix are international kind of thing.
13:42People compare.
13:43I think audience is super intelligent and Indians particularly are very intelligent people
13:47generally.
13:49Everyone, you know.
13:50So, we have high standards.
13:52Yeah.
13:52Excuse me.
13:53But generally also, I think, I don't know.
13:55I'm holding the mic.
13:56Generally also, they, they come up with so many reactions.
13:59At times very intelligent, at times very negative also.
14:02So, how do you all process it?
14:03I think comments are fab.
14:06Comments are great.
14:06I usually agree with the, I usually agree with the first one I read.
14:09I'm like, that's what I would have said.
14:11No.
14:11And sometimes comments are just like, hello ma'am, how are you?
14:15Hello ma'am.
14:15It's like that.
14:17Well, you know.
14:18It's got nothing to do with the thing.
14:20They want to get to know you a little better.
14:22It's got nothing to do with what you're posting or anything.
14:25But social media is that kind of place, right?
14:27While it helps you communicate with so many people at one time.
14:32It also has this that there are, you're constantly getting reactions.
14:36So, you have to find your way to filter it or not or whatever suits you, you know.
14:40But I find comments mostly pretty amusing.
14:42Like I said, it's got nothing to do with what you're actually posting.
14:45But just the general idea of familiarity, which is I think quite sweet.
14:49Yeah.
14:49Yeah.
14:50No, but also I kind of agree with most, I mean.
14:54Most of them.
14:54Yeah.
14:55And at least with some of them.
14:57And enough of them to make me feel we're all the same.
15:00Since we are talking about social media.
15:03Recently, one of 90's actor, who you know very well.
15:07And he, there were, he uploaded some reels and there were so many comments.
15:12Yeah.
15:12Yeah.
15:13There were so many comments.
15:14And later on he came with his version of story that why he's making such kind of reels.
15:19And you know, he need, he need money.
15:21And he was, you know, not, you know, physically well for quite some time.
15:25So when you see those kind of comments, what do you see in your mind and mind?
15:30I'm not very judgey as a person.
15:33I just feel very lucky to have a job and to have a roof over my head.
15:38And I feel people should not be quick to judge other people and everyone, to each their own,
15:44you know, and whatever you need to do, you're not robbing a bank.
15:50So it's, I mean, even if you are, I mean, it's like, um, sorry, I feel like you have to.
15:57No, it's okay.
15:57So I have not, I don't think it's our place to be judge, judgmental about these things.
16:02How do I feel?
16:03I feel, I have no feeling.
16:05But do you think that, does it make you think that a person, any person, I'm not talking about actor,
16:13he or she should be prepared for all kinds of phases in life.
16:17Is that right?
16:18I mean, anything can happen as you look around you, you'll see that anything can happen to anybody.
16:26And if it's not happening to you, you should put your head down and say a nice prayer.
16:31So much happens on social media that we have our own algorithms functioning.
16:36Yeah, yeah, one question.
16:37Yeah, yeah.
16:38So now, uh, before we wrap, Kartavya pe ham wapas aate hain.
16:42So Kartavya is something that is a very subjective, right?
16:46So do you think it is practically possible for a human being in a lifetime to fulfill, to fulfill all
16:54Kartavya?
16:54Yeah, it's a myth that a human being doesn't know anything.
16:59Because actually human being doesn't know anything if you, you know,
17:03that why are we coming here?
17:05And when we come here, why are we coming here?
17:07And when we come here, when we come here?
17:07And when we come here?
17:08So do you think it's a...
17:10Wow, it's quite deep.
17:10It's a bit deep.
17:11But what I'm saying is, I think there are different pockets in life, right?
17:18There's like a pocket of guilt and a pocket of duty undone and duty done and all these things.
17:26And I think it's always full, you know, if you replace one thing with another.
17:29And part of being human and having a mind is having some unfulfilled and some desire and something you need
17:35and want and then some satisfaction.
17:37So this mix of everything is what makes a free mind.
17:42So unfulfilled duty is definitely part...
17:44You can't... I don't think you can feel, yes, I am now fulfilled in every way.
17:49So, you know, not being fulfilled is part of the...
17:52Being human.
17:53Part of the mindset, right?
17:54Yeah.
17:55That's my take.
17:56It's difficult if you can manage to...
17:58I've never figured out what is the purpose in...
18:01I didn't even know if there is a purpose.
18:04It never bothered me that there isn't a purpose.
18:06I'm quite enjoying it the way it is, sorry.
18:07It's like a bit shallow.
18:09What is the purpose of my life?
18:12To entertain...
18:14I don't know what it is.
18:16It's to kind of...
18:17As the Americans say in those bubblegum movies.
18:21To have a good time...
18:22Yes, to have a good time.
18:23All the time.
18:23All the time.
18:28Yeah, that's a good one.
18:29Yeah.
18:30That's a good note to end on.
18:31Have a good time...
18:33All the time.
18:34All the time.
18:34Okay.
18:36Is that Animal House?
18:37Well, I mean...
18:39You know...
18:41Books like the Gita have been put together to answer questions like that.
18:45And...
18:46If not answer them, at least help us towards answers to that.
18:50It's quite simple.
18:51There's nothing...
18:53It's not like rocket science.
18:54I mean, there is a purpose to everybody's life.
18:58And they, within themselves, most times, know exactly what that purpose is.
19:02Whether they're able to follow on that purpose or not is another thing.
19:06But a lot of us...
19:08Most of us know exactly what that purpose is.
19:10Some of us are able to follow through.
19:12Some of us are able not to follow through.
19:14And that's what being a human being is about.
19:16And a book like the Gita will help you decode that a little bit for yourself.
19:21And...
19:21Actually, one of my favorite stories, quickly.
19:24It'll take only 30 seconds.
19:26Please, please.
19:27Go on.
19:27Is actually about the Buddha when he opened his eyes under the Bodhi tree.
19:31After the...
19:32When the realization came to him.
19:33And so...
19:35He opened his eyes and he was like,
19:36Oh!
19:38I've been asking the wrong question all this time.
19:41Whether there is a God.
19:43Where is this God?
19:45No.
19:46The question is...
19:47What am I going to do today?
19:50Wow.
19:54That's the end of that.
19:55And it's a good question for actors starting out.
19:57Yeah.
19:57What am I going to do today?
19:58When I first came to Bombay, that was a question I used to ask myself everyday.
20:02But I think some people are okay looking for a purpose.
20:05And they don't even know what that purpose is.
20:07And that's an interesting journey as well.
20:09So, yeah.
20:09We had very good time.
20:11And Saif sir's one-liners were very entertaining.
20:14So, was he like this on the set?
20:16All the time.
20:17Having a good time all the time.
20:19All the time.
20:19No, listen.
20:20I think it's nice.
20:21You try and keep a lighter.
20:23I don't take myself...
20:25Seriously.
20:26Too serious.
20:27Not...
20:27Seriously is the point.
20:29You do the scene properly.
20:30But Arthur, you can have a bit of fun also.
20:34Exactly.
20:34A bit of a laugh.
20:35One of your interviews keep going viral.
20:37That is 25 year old interview where you are saying that I play guitar.
20:42There's a lot of stuff that's illegal now.
20:45It probably was illegal then as well.
20:46But yeah.
20:47But have you seen that clip?
20:49I think...
20:50Have you seen that clip?
20:51Of course I've seen it.
20:52I don't need to say...
20:54Yeah.
20:54I...
20:54You know...
20:55It's very funny.
20:57Yes.
20:58It's funny.
20:59Yes.
20:59Okay.
21:00There's all kinds of things in that clip.
21:01Yes.
21:02It's not just that clip.
21:02You also spoke about your favourite actresses.
21:05Yes.
21:05With the difference between...
21:06I don't know what.
21:07There's a remark.
21:09Bizarre.
21:10Okay.
21:11Thank you so much.
21:12Thank you so much.
Comments