00:00when you do a film or you sign a film on basis of the script on basis of the
00:04director I would think that you want your film to be a success today if you
00:09really go to see out of ten films you have like eight films that have two
00:13heroes and two heroes or you have one hero and two heroes the Hindi film
00:17industry is really you know that's how it's happening it's I think your rapport
00:23with your director that helps you you know bring out the best in your character
00:34welcome to Lera Javata to start with some general questions how is it that we
00:43find you doing less and less of solos or rather negligible solo films and more and
00:48more with some other heroine or paired with or smaller roles like Astithwa or
00:54item roles that like to be very honest with you first of all Astithwa was done
01:03as a complete on a very friendly basis for Mahesh who I know very well and he
01:13wanted an established face to play that character which had only two scenes so I
01:20don't think he was in a position to ask anybody for a favor and I wasn't I'm not
01:29really sure if he thought that somebody would do it for him you know so it was
01:35because it was an out-and-out taboos film so it was basically if you're talking in
01:40terms of Astithwa I it was just done on a very friendly basis with Mahesh and I had
01:47just like a day shooting for it as for your next question of item songs I've done just
01:55one and I haven't done any more because that's not what I really want to do and solo films
02:03I am doing two actually right now one is a so-called art film and with Sanjay Suri it's
02:12it's on the lines of I would say you know about this rape victim who is an IS
02:22officer's wife it's called Bandhak and there's another film with Chandra Choor which is it's about
02:32the part it's it deals with the partition of India and the very serious kind of
02:41films you know it's like it's not very I won't say if you're talking of commercial
02:49commercial cinema I mean today if you really go to see out of 10 films you have like
02:56eight films that have two heroes and two heroines or you have one hero and two
03:00heroes that's how I think the flow of the Hindi film industry is really you know
03:08that's how it's happening so I wouldn't really say that it's a conscious effort
03:14I'm making to work with two girls or where there are two heroes or just one
03:20hero and two girls or whatever it's just that the scripts that interest me have
03:24two girls and if I have to sit and wait say no solo hero ke saath hi film karni hai
03:36toh I don't know whether it will be worth my while because even solo projects don't
03:42really work as for like if you if you even pull out like the last ten films that
03:49have really done well they are either multi starters or they are like you know they have
03:54two heroes or two heroines or one hero and two heroines it's basically I would think that today's
04:00way of making movies is basically you need a lot of glamour which probably and the hit and flop ratio
04:09of
04:09having a solo star as compared to a multi starter the hit ratio is much more in films like this
04:18going
04:19by what you've said so how will it sound if we ask you that you are more looking at film
04:26becoming a hit
04:27are you looking at the growth of your as an actor see I would say I'm looking at the growth
04:33of an
04:33actress if I'm not really sure if you understood what I said it's basically a you know when you
04:40choose a film on basis of its script and its director and you agree to do a film you are
04:45looking
04:46at the character that you're playing it necessarily doesn't have to be a solo character I wouldn't think
04:52that a solo film enhances your performance levels of in any way even if there are two girls in a
05:00film
05:00if you are a good actor you can show your talent films like uh like I've always said
05:08um in the recent uh times there are films like chori chori chupke chupke or har dil jo piaar karega
05:17or bb number one or essentially which are multi-starters but they are commercial successes as well as the
05:24performances have been appreciated by the masses as well so we are not looking at um i'm i'm not
05:34trying to say that by doing a solo film you're going to get the applaud or the uh appreciation
05:42that you won't get doing two hero or two heroine films so i don't understand the i i've simply don't
05:51understand the concept when people say tum aap uh solo films itni kam kyun kar rahi hai it it for
06:00me
06:00when i choose a character it has to appeal to me the uh director has to be capable the production
06:07has
06:07to be sound and the script has to be great and you basically make a good film when you have
06:14these
06:14three things you know working with each other in sync so basically when you have a hit formula
06:23in terms of these three things which are intertwined with each other you make a good film
06:29and sometimes a good film necessarily does not mean a hit film a good film is doing good work
06:35which is what i believe in so are you looking forward to any such roles that you think
06:40well to be very honest uh prati bimb is one which is a completely uh way out of line character
06:49for me
06:49in terms of uh what i'm playing it's it's like an extension of vast of but in a more mature
06:56way
06:57so um it it requires a lot of performance it requires a lot of uh dedication in terms of trying
07:04to portray a character which is slightly older than my age and um much older than my age rather
07:12and uh at the same time there is another film um film which is uh kabhi dhup kabhi chhaan which
07:23is
07:23the remake of i that is maisha's home production then there is rajji's uh one film that we're still
07:31we haven't really finalized the details of the film and um then there is uh one kutub most probably
07:40which i will be doing with my age so um there are a few films lined up which has a
07:47very um impressionable
07:49characters that i'm playing which are very um central which are very uh very important
07:58coming to tera mera satray do tell us about your role in this film tera mera satray essentially is
08:08a film of emotions it's it's uh it's a film made with a social message a message that uh would
08:19tell people that dealing with handicapped children and uh giving them love is more important than trying
08:28to figure out a place for them to stay which is apart from their own home and um it's a
08:35message about
08:35love it's a message about um emotions it's a message about relationships
08:46how to deal with relationships of different kinds and um it is a very uh heartwarming film i would say
08:54and my role in the film is that of a girl who is very independent who is very mupat you
09:01know like
09:02she's she's very straight to the face um it's again a very different character from what i've played in
09:08most of my other films it's i would say that it is a more different version of the character i
09:14played
09:14in albela but uh slightly more uh down market um it is um i would like you know a girl
09:26living in a
09:26chawl basically and her attitude who is still super confident and uh who still wants to win the world over
09:33and um she i mean she lives life by her rules basically and um she would do anything to get
09:45love which is so important like i said i mean this film spreads the message of love in different forms
09:52so is yeah this film is sonari bhi hai ji to who eventually gets the guy or is it something
10:01like
10:01that it has got nothing to do with who eventually gets the guy because this story is essentially about
10:06two brothers and um it's their emotional upheavals and it is um it is basically the uh thing about
10:19you know it's i i really don't want to divulge the story at this point but it is essentially a
10:26role
10:26of uh it is essentially a story of these people who have come together through circumstances and then
10:35uh how they deal with the situations as they come along
10:48how was the experience this time but this time i worked with him a little more uh i had much
10:55more
10:55work with him than i did in kache dhage my work was essentially with saif then and um i hardly
11:01worked
11:01with ajay but the little that i knew him then and what i've known him now he is uh as
11:11always
11:11great to work with and uh extremely cooperative uh very very um genuine and uh very straightforward
11:21person and um he doesn't have hangups about uh you know about what he does or who he is or
11:30you know and basically um working with me for the second time he made me feel very very comfortable
11:37so um i never had any problems with him so nali i've known uh i did i no i haven't
11:45really done a film
11:46with her before but um
11:48um we just knew each other because we shared the same designer at one point and um i just knew
11:57her
11:58because she used to also model before and i just know her for very long so we're like really good
12:05friends we never had friends we never had a problem
12:14you can't really call a film because it was a day's work and it was just
12:19you know uh i would say um though i would love to be associated with it because it's a very
12:25well made
12:26film but apart from that i would say work wise after vast of i think tera mera satra is my
12:33second
12:33film with him how do you rate and how do you find magesh
12:37see like i've said um i'm very comfortable working with him
12:40um and um i think he's one um he's one of the best directors we have today in our industry
12:50he's a
12:50very talented person and he knows his job and he knows how to get work done from his artists
12:56he doesn't compromise as per um you know like he won't say ki achha you can't do it this way
13:04then do
13:04it this way he wants it done in a certain way and you have to deliver it and he makes
13:08sure of that
13:09which is why you have such strong performances of his characters or at least characters actors who
13:16are directors actors and i think i'm a director's actor so for me um i think he brings out the
13:23best
13:23in me like rajji when i worked on pukar with rajji rajji is another uh person who is uh who
13:31i think is
13:32one of the best people we have and um i'm very comfortable working with him as well so um you
13:39know
13:39it's it's it's i think your um rapport with your director that helps you uh you know bring out
13:48the best of bring out the best in your character and i think um i'm very comfortable working with
13:54both of them mahiji and rajji yeah what are your expectations well to be very honest i've been out
14:02of town i haven't really um been around to hear the buzz even so i really don't know but all
14:09i can say
14:10is we've worked very hard on the film and we've done i think we've done a good job out of
14:15it and
14:16from what i hear people saying that it's turned out to be a great film so um as every actor
14:22expects
14:23his film to do really well at the end of the day at the box office i would expect it
14:28to do really
14:28well and if it does i guess we all will benefit from it so tell me what is the real
14:34namrata is it
14:34the is it the chubby namrata that you that we see or is it an introvert or what do you
14:42see i find a face
14:45which is quite baby but well see different people have different opinions but i would um i would say
14:54um a lot of people think i'm arrogant or they probably until they meet me so i wouldn't i would
15:02say i'm i'm not arrogant and i am very very friendly depending on the people i meet and
15:12see i have to uh you know get along with somebody i'm not i won't go up to people i
15:20to strangers and
15:21say hello how are you i'm namrata and all that if if i know you i'm or if i've met
15:26you even once
15:27through somebody or if i've been introduced to you i will make it a point to come and say hello
15:31to you
15:32but i won't go out of my way that's it
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