00:00Ready?
00:01Action.
00:01When I made page 3, people got upset.
00:03For the page 3, people then I made heroine from the film industry.
00:06That time people got upset with me.
00:08When I made traffic signals, people got upset with me.
00:11Why are you entering the bedroom?
00:15I have always been a very fearless filmmaker, the way I want to make a film.
00:20He always keeps the actors who are self-obsessed.
00:24We see the very rosy picture about husband-wife walking the red carpet,
00:28they are sitting in an award function.
00:30They are giving flying cases.
00:32I dedicate this award to my wife.
00:34Tell me, you have 4 AM friends in Bombay who you can dial up at any time.
00:39There is no one like that.
00:41Because the film industry, remember that, it navigates with success.
00:46It was my song.
00:47I feel good about the film.
00:48I'll take the director's number, actor's number and I'll reach out to him.
00:52I'll tell him that I'm a brilliant interviewer.
00:55I take an auto, I take an Uber sometimes.
00:57So I'll start chatting with the autowala.
00:59I made the traffic signals like that.
01:00When I was going, I used to interact with all the vendors,
01:03all the people on the traffic signal,
01:05who used to sell agravatis, to books, to Haar, everything.
01:09Judy.
01:10Action.
01:11So we are with the OG director Madhur Bhandarkar today at his office
01:15and I cannot be more excited for this interview.
01:18How are you Madhur?
01:19Absolutely fine.
01:34This is something that most people don't know about Madhur Bhandarkar is that
01:38he is a friend first to most people before being a director.
01:41From the outside, when you look at him, you will think
01:44that he has so many national awards, he has so many famous directors,
01:47how are they going to be?
01:48Tappal!
01:49Where is it?
01:49Is it a vada pao?
01:51It's not a vada pao.
01:53It's not a vada pao.
01:54You don't like a vada pao.
01:55We will like a vada pao.
01:56You are a fish.
01:57I love fish.
01:58You are a fish.
02:01I love fish.
02:02I don't know people who eat.
02:03It's a vada pao.
02:04It's a vada pao.
02:06I'll tell you one thing.
02:08If you want a car service, I take an Uber sometimes.
02:13So I'll start chatting with the autowala.
02:15And then I'll ask about his life, about his journey,
02:18about his life, about his journey.
02:19And some recognize me.
02:20Some don't recognize me.
02:22So it's good to get the inputs from him.
02:24That is my USP.
02:25If you see all the movies of mine, I go to Sydney Nightman.
02:30So I used to interact with all the vendors,
02:36all the people on the traffic signals.
02:37To sell agravatis, to books, to Haar, everything.
02:40And then I got the insight that they should make a film.
02:43So this is the way I look into my subject.
02:47In fact, I look for subject.
02:48I look for character.
02:49That is an interesting facet of mine.
02:51There's something very interesting you told me by the way.
02:53That a new movie is coming up.
02:55It's titled The Vives.
02:57And it's a behind-the-scenes of the lives of Bollywood wives.
03:02The tagline is,
03:02In the shadow of stardom.
03:04Because you know what?
03:05This subject was,
03:06from last 4-5 years,
03:08I was contemplating to make.
03:09A lot of people discouraging me also.
03:11Why are you entering the bedrooms?
03:12Like I said,
03:13Why are you entering the bedrooms of this Bollywood wife?
03:16And I wrote, you won't believe it,
03:18comes from 8-9 draft of this subject.
03:21But you know what?
03:21The wife's trial and tribulation.
03:23Nobody has shown it.
03:25The inside.
03:26It's very difficult to be with a hero and an actor.
03:30Absolutely.
03:30Because we see the very rosy picture about
03:32husband and wife walking the red carpet.
03:34They are sitting in an award function.
03:36They are giving flying cases.
03:37I dedicate this award to my wife.
03:39And all this thing.
03:40When you see,
03:41but when you see behind,
03:42it's completely different.
03:44But you know the biggest thing about your movies is that
03:46they lead to a lot of speculation.
03:48Like now you'll show four wives.
03:50Now everyone would be thinking,
03:52who is this industry?
03:54There's the ambiguity to it.
03:56Yeah, yeah.
03:56I've always been very fearless filmmaker.
03:58The way I want to make the film.
04:00I met two, three Bollywood wives also.
04:02In fact, one wife gave me a lot of insight.
04:05I don't want to name her.
04:06But she gave me a lot of insight.
04:08A big star wife.
04:10And she said,
04:10Mother don't mention me.
04:11Some wives met me.
04:13And they said,
04:14Hey boy, why are you now?
04:16Why are you making a film?
04:17What are you making?
04:19When I made page three,
04:20people got upset.
04:21For the page three people,
04:22then I went heroine.
04:23From the film industry,
04:24that time people got upset with me.
04:25When I made traffic signals,
04:27people got upset with me.
04:28You got upset with me.
04:29What happened in traffic signals?
04:31So these kind of things.
04:32In the corporate world,
04:33people got upset.
04:35In the fashion world,
04:36people are upset.
04:37But I'm used to.
04:38And if you see,
04:39you have captured one small theme.
04:41In the universe.
04:42In everything.
04:43Fashion was about the whole industry.
04:45Heroine, you boiled it down to one woman.
04:47One woman.
04:47Mental.
04:48Yeah, because stardom.
04:50About the stardom.
04:51How stardom gaps into your psyche.
04:53And you want to maintain that
04:54doctrine of being a big star.
04:56Actors always keep self-obsessed.
05:00Like they are watching.
05:01So they always think,
05:05that my threshold,
05:07or my position,
05:08they always have to maintain me.
05:10And I should be recognized.
05:11People should love me the same manner.
05:13What they should love me earlier also.
05:15So that's one thing.
05:16I have a heroine.
05:17I have a psyche.
05:18That's why that girl
05:18has become saddened.
05:20Then she is so desperate
05:22that she has to leak herself.
05:24I think Kareena Kapoor's
05:25best performance it was.
05:26Tell me mother.
05:27Your 4 a.m. friend in Bombay.
05:30Who you can dial up at any time.
05:32Yeah.
05:32I have friends who don't belong to the film industry.
05:38And they are friends.
05:38They are friends.
05:40So I can phone them.
05:42They can talk to them.
05:43And film industry?
05:45No.
05:46None.
05:46None.
05:46See, I have film industry with good friends.
05:49Because film industry,
05:50remember that,
05:51it navigates with success.
05:53So everything depends on what is going on.
05:57And what happens in industry?
05:58I tell you,
05:58this is,
06:00you meet,
06:01and you move on in life.
06:03People move on in life.
06:04So in my opinion,
06:06I have good friends.
06:07Good friends are a lot.
06:09But you say,
06:09best friends in industry,
06:10this is a big problem.
06:13Another thing I wanted to say was that,
06:15you know,
06:15people talk about actors' chemistry.
06:18Are they friends or not?
06:20But nobody talks about
06:21director-director chemistry.
06:22Is there some unity in directors
06:24in the film industry?
06:25I'll tell you one thing.
06:26In industry,
06:27there are a lot of,
06:28just as I am giving you an example,
06:29recently we talk about the Dhurandar thing.
06:32And,
06:32I remember the first Dhurandar also,
06:35I saw,
06:35I was absolutely,
06:36you know,
06:37I was like,
06:38you know,
06:40you know,
06:40you know,
06:41you know,
06:47Dhurandar,
06:47I was absolutely bold over,
06:49you know,
06:49what a film made of this guy.
06:51I reached out to Ajit Chidhar,
06:53I spoke to him,
06:53I said,
06:54I used to know him.
06:55And I tweeted also after that.
06:57So,
06:57I was like,
06:58what's happening in industry,
07:00that people,
07:01I feel like,
07:01I'm going to give you a speech.
07:03I was like,
07:04I'm calling me,
07:04I'm calling me,
07:04you tweeted,
07:06I was like,
07:14I love more than the first Dhurandar.
07:21So,
07:21I was like,
07:29I love more than the first Dhurandar.
07:32Yeah.
07:33And lastly,
07:33last question.
07:35Now,
07:35we recently went to a wedding,
07:37in Delhi,
07:38there were a lot of people.
07:39You know,
07:40it was like,
07:40all the stars came,
07:41everyone was there.
07:42The award choice is more,
07:45stars are showing inå©š.
07:46What do you take of this wedding trend?
07:48In the past?
07:49In the past,
07:49it was like,
07:50actors are being charged.
07:53Actors,
07:53they charge money,
07:55dance,
07:56appearance,
07:57appearance.
07:58Even if you come,
07:59come,
07:59come,
07:59come,
07:59come and come,
08:01they charge.
08:02Everything is the same.
08:04Everything is like,
08:05everything is the same.
08:06You can get to know,
08:06you will get to know,
08:08I don't know,
08:09I don't have any idea,
08:10but,
08:12I was listening to that
08:13in the funeral,
08:13they pay to go to the funeral.
08:15Yes.
08:15I also have those
08:16non-filmy people
08:17If there are two actors who will come, my funeral will be filled with funerals.
08:21I'll be remembered.
08:22Yes, my father was a fan of my father.
08:26But my father doesn't even know him.
08:27He doesn't even know him.
08:27He doesn't even know him.
08:28Birthday wish?
08:29Yes.
08:30Birthday wish?
08:32Yes.
08:32Birthday wish?
08:33Yes.
08:35Birthday wish?
08:36Yes.
08:37Birthday wish?
08:38Hi, I'm so and so.
08:40I'm wishing you, Raju, best wishes to you.
08:45It's great to know you.
08:47Everybody wants to bring money on this thing.
08:50Everything has become very commercial now.
08:52So he's seen the highs, he's seen the lows, and he's seen everything in between.
08:56That is OG Bollywood director Madhur Bhandarkar for you.
08:59I'm Shreya, this is Bhoji, and you are on?
09:01More of everything.
09:05Done.
09:05Perfect.
09:06I'm a very bad actor.
09:08I haven't done an actor before.
09:11How many of you work?
09:13No, I'm a bad actor.
09:19Long.
09:20Long.
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