Mumbai, Maharashtra: In an exclusive conversation with IANS, cast members Kangana Ranaut, Girija Oak, Smita Tambe and Esha Dey discuss their upcoming film 'Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata'. The actresses share their experiences of working on a female-led set, memorable moments from the shoot, and the camaraderie they developed, including playful conversations about Kangana’s marriage plans. They also reflect on the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the challenges faced by nurses, social media trolling, and the debate around the objectification of women in cinema. The discussion further explores why South Indian films feel more rooted in local culture and touches on the growing popularity of young cricket sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. The interview offers a blend of personal stories, industry insights and social commentary.
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00:00Welcome to INS and let me begin by complimenting all of you.
00:04You look so beautiful, you look so beautiful, you look so beautiful, and I also heard their conversation about sardis.
00:11So, how was it like working on the set?
00:15It's one of those rare instances where I'm interviewing all women team.
00:19So, you were also interested in the set.
00:21So, what was the conversation like when you were interested in the set?
00:27I think I did not enjoy as much as they did, because there were other duties.
00:33But as much I could interact with them, I think complete, we must, you know, the way we talked about
00:45personal experiences,
00:46how did it happen, how did it happen, how did it happen, how did it happen, how did it happen,
00:51how did it happen, how did it happen.
00:51Or, you know, there were love stories, or, Samita ji is a very good storyteller.
00:58So, I remember now, because I had a lot of questions asking me about what to do, what to do,
01:04what to do, what to do, what to do.
01:06So, they told me that I had to listen to a story, but I need 45 minutes.
01:11I remember now.
01:12I remember thinking that I have 45 minutes today.
01:14I remember when I was in a short, in a short, in a short, in a short, in a short,
01:17I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
01:20It's the whole arc that's worth 45 minutes.
01:25So, they have heard that story that I haven't heard.
01:27I remember that story, but I remember that story.
01:30So, you know how girls are, you know, women are.
01:35We have a wide range of subjects, especially because they are all very opinionated women, very mentally stimulated sort of
01:47women.
01:47You know, so, whether we talk about politics, whether they are very inquisitive, curious, you know, whether we talk about
01:56art, food, cooking, children, love affairs, everything.
02:04So, when we talk about love affair, I just wanted to know that there was something new in the set
02:13that you guys were shocking or something.
02:17Anybody?
02:18I don't want to.
02:20No, no, no.
02:21We don't have anything about it.
02:22I just don't know.
02:23I just don't know.
02:24It is not about your question, but I am asking you when are you going to get married, but this
02:30is not the answer.
02:31The entire world has been asked.
02:33I am not going to get married.
02:36The nation wants to know.
02:39You are doing something that you are doing.
02:43I am not going to get married.
02:48No, but then.
02:52It is not about what you are doing in your life.
02:56It is generally talking about what you are doing in your life.
03:03But Samitha is looking for my relationship.
03:06Yes.
03:06That is not your wife.
03:08A good woman and a good thoughts.
03:13Why not a marriage?
03:14It is a very good and good thoughts.
03:20This is something that we have been seeing in the last 10 years.
03:25Women who are very, very, you know, who have done so well in life and they think a lot before
03:32settling down marriage.
03:33This is what we have seen in the last 10 years.
03:36This is what we have seen in the last 10 years.
03:39But having said that, you know, I mean all of them are married and two of them have children also.
03:46Having said that, I would say that every one of our journey is happening.
04:09I am a believer of the institution of marriage.
04:17I am not a believer of the institution of marriage.
04:19But I have to admit that growing up or for the longest time, I would say that marriage was never
04:29my priority.
04:30It was always my career.
04:32I am a believer of my priority.
04:33When we were little, I remember, in my childhood, my cousins, when we had friends with them,
04:39they would always meet the children.
04:41So I would ask everyone, what would you do to do to do to do to do to do to
04:45do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to
04:50do to do to do.
04:55So, I used to judge big time, you know.
04:59So, I…
05:01I…
05:01My career was very necessary.
05:03My parents also told me,
05:05why do you…
05:06You know, I got success in my life very late in my life.
05:10When I started in 16, 17 years,
05:13then I got success in my life,
05:15I was already 29, touching 30 by the time Tanu Manu and all those films came, Queen and all.
05:21So then, I would say that all the things that I would say
05:26I don't think I would say that as far as I would say,
05:28I don't think I would say that as soon as I could grow,
05:33I could not say that.
05:36I felt that it was a very different way,
05:40so that I felt that I would say that
05:40I felt that in my life always,
05:43that that I felt a drastic arc is going to be.
05:45And that I felt that my opinions would be,
05:47or my likes, dislikes would be changed.
05:49After that, there were some situations like Durbhagyapurna, and then like I said, you know,
05:56but anyway, like I said, Samita Ji, you are looking for a relationship with me.
06:01And that's how it is.
06:04India has made your wedding in the past.
06:06Yes.
06:07Yes.
06:08Actually, with Mangal Sutra and that's how you married.
06:13Yes.
06:14I'm just now talking about the film.
06:16This is based on 26-11.
06:25Everyone, they have their own story, that night.
06:29I would like to know from you,
06:32what it was that night and around the last 3-4 days.
06:36That emotion, that feeling,
06:38and that feeling,
06:39your memory,
06:42and your memory,
06:43that you have to move,
06:44that you have to be able to feel the scene or the visual,
06:45that you have to be able to enjoy.
06:50The trailer launched,
06:51I also told you about the premiere of a film.
06:54I was on the premiere of the film.
06:55It was on the screen.
06:56It was on the phone,
06:57and I had to stop the film and stop the film.
06:59because we all knew that something was very big.
07:03Then we were all out of the film,
07:08and we started talking about how to go out,
07:10how to go out, how safe is or not,
07:12because we didn't understand.
07:13So some people came out out of the room
07:16and then we had a friend's house
07:18and then we had a whole night
07:20to go out there.
07:23Our friend's mom and dad
07:24kept us all in our house
07:26and so many people came out.
07:30So that night was the same.
07:31We were all watching news.
07:33I didn't understand what was going on.
07:35At that time, I didn't meet my husband.
07:38I didn't know our knowledge.
07:39But now I know that that day
07:41my husband was going to Leopold
07:44with my friends.
07:46And at the end of the time,
07:48their plan changed.
07:50Literally,
07:51they crossed the platform
07:52to the other side.
07:53They were on the other side.
07:55They were on the opposite side.
07:57Otherwise, they were on the other side.
08:00They were on the other side.
08:00So maybe they were on the other side
08:02or Leopold or Leopold
08:03or at that time.
08:05So I know that now.
08:07I know that.
08:07On the other hand,
08:08there was a story that was linked to me.
08:23I died in the trailer.
08:37I was on the other hand.
08:39So now we have a photograph of the CST station, which was on every news channel.
08:48It has been damaged in our memory.
08:50The bag, the shirt, the bag, the shirt.
08:54We remember the whole visual.
08:56It was the get-up.
08:58And as I saw it, it stopped for 2 seconds.
09:02Because it has been damaged in our minds.
09:05And it has all the memories that we saw at that time.
09:11So this was the time to create the film.
09:16I'm sure all of these memories will be different.
09:21After doing this film, I always think that we feel very important to us.
09:30But I want to share one incident.
09:33I want to share this script.
09:35When this script came to me,
09:37and when this film is not only in 2016,
09:41this film is not only in 2016.
09:42There are nurses who are pre and post this film after this film.
09:46And it is truly a great journey.
09:49The way they are in all situations,
09:53the film is being,
09:54we are standing up and then,
09:55and after that,
09:56how the life has changed.
09:57How it has changed its way of being.
09:59This is a very tragic layering in the film.
10:03So when you study this script as an actor,
10:07then you think,
10:09what's the character of this history?
10:12What is this story?
10:12What is this story?
10:13What is this story?
10:14When you are in the character,
10:15you think that this character
17:38I think it's a patriarchal view.
17:40I think it's a patriarchal view.
17:40So, when the lens will slightly change,
17:43it will not come.
17:46So, I think it's a little bit changing.
17:49People are more aware.
17:50First, the things that were easily passed
17:52were made by a woman,
17:55they said very nonchalantly.
17:57So, someone didn't think anything.
17:58We were all looking at the same lens.
18:01So, now, because the lens is slightly
18:02removed from our eyes,
18:04we think,
18:05why are we saying this?
18:07Why are we saying this?
18:07Why are we saying this?
18:08We are starting to understand.
18:09So, it's a good thing
18:11that it's going to happen.
18:12If this lens is changing,
18:14and it doesn't go extreme,
18:16I think there will be a very positive change.
18:20Yeah, I agree.
18:21So, the whole thing about
18:25to see everything from this perspective
18:28of trolling, trolling, trolling
18:31may not be good because I think
18:33somewhere south films have also resonated a lot
18:36with the whole of India
18:39because there is a regional touch to it.
18:43and aapka milieu kya hai,
18:46aapka background kya hai,
18:48agar aap kisi koi mazdoor kisi bar mein jata hai,
18:51just to have an easy night out.
18:54Aap aap social media pe uske
18:56cha shots dekke ho halah kareenge.
18:58And maybe that person is a grey character.
19:02You know, toh ik abhi film koi nahi nahi hai.
19:06I don't know.
19:09I don't know.
19:11I don't know.
19:11I have no idea.
19:12But the extreme trolling of every subject is not good.
19:45And it is also going down, down, down, down.
19:47because eek joh joh humare joh audience hoate te te.
19:52They are drifting into a sort of you know.
19:55Toh har cheez ko dhyan mein rakte huye.
19:57I personally feel this culture of trolling should end and people should if they don't like something they should just
20:05pass and
20:07Self-awareness is very important, but at the same time
20:21So all this is is actually very frivolous to even to comment on you know, so
20:28Film industry ki baat apne chedi aur yeh sab ke liye valid hai ki that like there is a lot
20:33of concern in last few years, especially post covid
20:37That's going down down. Suddenly one film comes and bhot bade hit ho jate hai
20:42And then people have this ray of hope that you know people are coming back to theatres now
20:45And then suddenly us ke baad phir you know kate hai hai sukhha phir se ho ho jata hai
20:51Kangana you have been part for so long and you have been you have given biggest hits
20:58Koun sa ik jyase ki bhot analysis ho rhi hai, but if I ask your POV what is your POV
21:03why you know people are not coming to theatres or why films are flopping
21:08Jho bhi aapko
21:09People are not coming to theatres kyunki unke paas itne zyadha
21:14Alag-lag mediums bhot ho gae hai unke paas
21:16So screen joh hai chhoti chhoti hote hote hote hote hote tv se woh phone pe bante bante
21:23I remember aad se das saal pehle
21:27Shikhar Kapoor ji ke saath hum kuch baat chal rhi thi
21:30Film ho ko leka
21:31Toh unho ne us wakt kaata ki anybody
21:33Kangana in future anybody who has a camera will be a director
21:38Toh maine us time pe sucha aisa thudhi ho sakta hai anybody who has a camera will be a director
21:41Toh maine us time pe sucha aisa thudhi ho sakta hai anybody who has a camera will be a director
21:41Toh unho ne kya anybody who has a camera will be a director
21:45Woh aaj eek saast fiktah hai dho dho minute ki film me loog bana rhe hai, comedy bana rhe hai,
21:49thrill bana rhe hai, trainon pe latak jah rhe hai, khanay bana rhe hai, aapko
21:53Toh ye eek sachai hai, badalti zamane ki
21:57Toh kahi na kahi film me bhi apna wajud black and white se colored aya thay, silent se talki aya
22:03tha, phir uske baad me sab digital ho ne laga
22:06Ab hum film me bhi eek tarah se evolve hoongi
22:10Aysa kuch nahi hai, ke loog joh hai, woh dhek rhe hai, but chute-chute alag-lag divert ho gaya
22:15hai medium se
22:16Sab sada addict toh mere khud ke ma baap hai, parents hai, an addict to face book, toh sara din
22:23face book joh hai dhek te rhat hai, toh is tarah ki abhi hai cheez hai, but hopefully we'll find
22:31a way around it
22:32But your industry, aapke industry ke loog and big directors and filmmakers they keep saying that one of the reasons
22:39why like when big films do not work that
22:42So having said that, I think films need to evolve and eek tarah ki price, the star ki price ho
22:44tii hai, woh bhoat zhaadha ho tii hai and woh poora economics, you know, bharbaad kar di ti hai
22:49Dekhye, woh toh, see, woh toh obviously context mein, jab film nahi chalegi toh value toh bhoat zhaadha lagi na,
22:57aap jis tarah se kharche kiya kertte te, kabhi kisi agar ghar mein, toh uske amdini utni na ho, toh
23:01woh kharche, chhote se chhote bhi ap kitna unko woh karengi, chhote karengi
23:06So having said that, I think films need to evolve and eek tarah se jis tarah se society evolve hori
23:15hai, they need to keep evolving themselves
23:16So having said that, I would like to add something that I always think, I always think, I don't have
23:24much of my knowledge in this vision, but as I always think, I always think that
23:30There is always a person that always finds a relevance, in any case, in any case, wherever, our relevance is,
23:37we are seeing, or we are seeing larger than life visuals
23:41So having said that, I always think that the relevance of the cinema and common audience, I always think that,
23:48I always think that, I always think that, I always think that, I always think that it will be a
24:07attraction point
24:17And that's also probably why regional films work better, because they are more connected with the logo, like Kangana Ji
24:23said, South Indian films, we feel pan India good
24:26Because it is pretty much that it is also more of an amusement event and what we think about as
24:30a part of the cinema, of the cinema and film itself
24:30Pushpao, when we had a majdour hero, laborer hero, all of them lives in Hindi films, in Mr Bachchan's time,
24:40he was coolie
24:41Exactly, he was coolie, exactly
24:42So when we think that that relevance of what we think will come, now that a helicopter is coming, how
24:49do we think that the chopper is coming
25:03I have read a lot about your theatre experience and when I was researching, you are also very
25:10popular but when you work with a theatre artist, what do you pick from each other?
25:17I have a lot of theatre background but obviously Samita Ji is very popular. I think overall
25:25they have put it in a way that you can't tell them that they are a theatre artist.
25:37Obviously theatre is more body-language oriented and movie acting is lens oriented.
25:45So there is a lot of sophistication, I think, like Irvān Sahib has put it in finance,
25:57theatre can be seen in the theatre, but it is very natural.
26:05I think it is very important to me that theatre actors will always see the best work in films,
26:16Thank you very much.
27:08Thank you very much.
27:33Thank you very much.
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