In an exclusive interview with IANS, actors Dinesh Lal Yadav, Amol Parashar, and Akanksha Ranjan opened up about their upcoming web series Gram Chikitsalay Season 2. The cast spoke about the pressure of living up to the benchmark set by the first season and also praised TVF for its consistent track record of good projects. They also discussed the concept of medical facilities in villages and how healthcare infrastructure in smaller towns has improved a lot over time. Akanksha shared fun moments from the winter shoot and recalled meeting Dinesh Lal Yadav for the first time. Whereas Amol spoke about being associated with his character Chitvan for years, citing Manoj Bajpayee’s example of long-term character connections.Akanksha also opened up about a bold personal decision - at age 32, she underwent two weeks of intense daily hormone injections, scans, and a surgical procedure to freeze her eggs.
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00:00Welcome team Gramsha, ticket salai to INS. It is an absolute pleasure to have you with us on board today.
00:06I gave a trailer and it really made me feel very intrigued.
00:11It made me laugh and inquisitive. It made me a mix of all the emotions and I think that is
00:16exactly what you are trying to give to the audience.
00:19That is what you are trying to give to the audience.
00:21So firstly congratulations on that.
00:25So, you know, when we talk about like I said, this trailer was good.
00:32Of course, people are looking forward to the show now, to the series now.
00:36But when we talk about any PCV show's second season, especially the first season is already so popular and basically
00:48you guys have set a benchmark for your own self for the show.
00:51How difficult or easy is it that you can give justice to the second season in that level?
01:00How difficult or easy as actors?
01:03How difficult is it that you can give justice to the audience?
01:36How difficult or easy as actors?
01:42that we have been able to get through this process,
01:46and as soon as people are being able to see,
01:47we have been so much for us to get through this process.
01:51That means,
01:52that we can get through this process.
01:53It's been a bit more than a few people,
02:00but we didn't feel it.
02:02But it's good that you all have to get through this process.
02:10The same question. As an actor, since you've been a part of the first season, when you've ventured into the
02:19first season, it is basically a clean slate.
02:21So you think, I don't know what the audience's feedback will be, but when it comes to it, what is
02:26the pressure that we've done in the first season?
02:30The second season, if you don't live up to it in the benchmark, so what is that feeling that doesn't
02:36affect you?
02:37I think, as you watch, it's your perspective. Because from my perspective, I was like, the tough part is over.
02:47People like it, these characters are jumping, they are connecting with them. So now let's have fun with it.
02:53We set a base set that there's some connectivity, there's some love, there's something they have, they feel towards these
03:00characters.
03:00Now I feel that the pressure is lifted. And now we can bring more, do more, experiment more. Because the
03:08base level is set. So I feel my pressure was less.
03:12Yeah. Same. Same. I think it happens a little bit. And it doesn't happen as much as people think.
03:23Because the base level is set. So I feel like the base level is set. I feel like the base
03:29level is set.
03:29And it's been a lot of people. And I feel like the base level has become those people.
03:34This is why it's become the base level. And TVF, the only one season, season two, has been created,
03:42they have made a lot of shows and seasons
03:45so I think it's possible to make a season
03:50and they have to deal with expectations
03:55that there will be something new and better
03:59and there will be an interest
04:01and there will be something different
04:02these tricks and limitations and pressures
04:07but more than actors
04:10I think writers and creators
04:12they have more pressure
04:13and they have passed by this pressure
04:16and passed by the flying colours
04:20so somewhere else
04:22their trust is ours as actors
04:24they have to do it
04:26and if they are speaking
04:28then it will be true
04:29as creative people
04:32every person thinks in a different way
04:34every person's hand is made of tea
04:36so
04:37that's different
04:37so that's why
04:41you have to trust
04:41and in this case as actors
04:44we have to do this work
04:45that you have to trust
04:47and say that you do it
04:49so you do it
04:50and you do it
04:51and you do it
04:53but you do it
04:55because you keep your trust
04:56in your hands
04:57so in this case
04:59I think
04:59that one time
05:00you have to trust
05:00that these people
05:01make good
05:02and the people
05:03and the people
05:05make good
05:06and the people
05:10I want you to know
05:11that when we
05:13watch a show
05:14which is very entertaining
05:17at the surface level
05:18right?
05:18but deep rooted
05:19if you go to see
05:20there is a very very strong
05:21message as well
05:22that you share
05:24so just when we talk about
05:26or isha
05:26they are subtle
05:30beautifully they have
05:32ingrained those messages
05:33to the audiences
05:34but do you think
05:36that when we make a show
05:38so these conversations
05:39that we have seen
05:41like in our show
05:42and the trailer
05:43that we have seen
05:43how people
05:44how villagers
05:45are still not
05:46they are not aware
05:47they are not aware
05:49of what is happening
05:49in medical
05:50in science
05:51they are not aware
05:53of what is happening
05:54do you think
05:55these are the basic things
05:56that they are not aware
05:58of what is happening
05:58a show like this
06:00can actually
06:02kickstart such conversations
06:03which probably
06:04can benefit them
06:05yes
06:07absolutely
06:09there are
06:10and there are
06:11and there are
06:12and there are
06:12and there are
06:13and there are
06:13and there are
06:13I personally
06:16that stories
06:18exist
06:19as well
06:20that we have fun
06:21to hear stories
06:22and that is why
06:23we also learn
06:24from stories
06:25from stories
06:26in childhood
06:27you hear a story
06:28that a king
06:29was a very bad
06:31man
06:31or he was a
06:32he was a very good
06:34he was a good
06:34he was a good
06:35he was a good
06:36he was a good
06:37and he was a good
06:38and he was a bad
06:39so in stories
06:40there is already
06:41established value
06:43system
06:43there is
06:44a message
06:45on the surface
06:46or lower
06:47or lower
06:48or lower
06:48or lower
06:49or not
06:50or not
06:52that
06:52there is already
06:53these things
06:54are
06:55in the nature
06:56embedded
06:57so I think
06:58I think
06:59I think
07:00the role of stories
07:01is that
07:02they can tell us
07:02some things
07:04about us
07:04about us
07:05about us
07:05about us
07:06about us
07:06about us
07:07that
07:08in that tradition
07:10I think
07:11our show
07:12also
07:12is
07:12on the surface
07:16because
07:16these things
07:17we face on daily basis
07:18and all
07:19face
07:20we face
07:21our mother-in-law
07:31has been
07:32girls
07:32we have
07:33a lot
07:33because
07:35I'm
07:35have
07:35manyaries
07:35they
07:38are
07:39and
07:40the
07:41country
07:51are
07:52I think that you can learn some things
07:53that are easier to learn.
07:55If you speak only,
07:57we make a reel,
07:59we write a long post on Instagram.
08:02But we make a show,
08:04a story,
08:04and we should have fun,
08:07and we should have engaged in it.
08:08With the fun,
08:11you have a little bit of a reward
08:13and the reward is easy to get
08:14and get a little bit of a reward.
08:17If you have a reward,
08:18you don't have a reward.
08:20So, I think that's already
08:22in the story and in the story.
08:25And whoever
08:26will eat it,
08:28they will have a reward
08:30for themselves.
08:33Sir, I would like to know
08:34about this question.
08:36I want you to know that
08:38when we look at you as an audience,
08:41apart from being an actor,
08:43a stellar actor,
08:44we also see
08:45that you are a very
08:49village boy inside.
08:50You are deep-rooted,
08:51culturally-rooted.
08:53What do you say?
08:54Man of the soil.
08:55So, when we talk about
08:57the same question.
09:00How much of an impact do you think
09:02such a show can create
09:04or make in your village?
09:06If we show this?
09:08I think,
09:10I think,
09:10Dr. Pravath has said
09:12that if you have
09:15a reward with a little
09:16that you give them
09:17easily,
09:18people take it easily.
09:21when we get to the
09:22show,
09:24we have to give it
09:26to us,
09:28we have to accept it.
09:31We have to accept it.
09:32We have to accept it.
09:32We have to think that
09:32if we are looking at the doctor,
09:35we are enjoying it.
09:37We have to do that.
09:39And we have to do that.
09:45We have to do that.
09:46At the same time,
09:47if I have someone who is
09:50who is wrong,
09:53who is wrong,
09:54who is wrong.
09:58At the same time,
09:59we have to do that.
10:02We don't have to do that.
10:05This is wrong.
10:06So,
10:07somewhere,
10:08if any show
10:10or film
10:10or story
10:12something
10:12does not seem
10:12in all
10:12the truth
10:13the truth is
10:14that you learn something
10:15with Manoranjan
10:18and that
10:19is not an answer.
10:20There is no choice
10:21from TVF
10:21and that
10:22there is
10:24a big message
10:28with it.
10:29Yes.
10:31Asking you further,
10:34we also said
10:35at the time
10:35that
10:36the country is progressing
10:38and this is happening
10:40impact exactly which I'm sure it is. But I think it is on the surface level
10:44where metropolitan cities, where towns are growing and you know, establishing and this and that.
10:50So, wherever the roots of our country, which are villages,
10:55they are not developing, they need to develop.
10:59I wanted to know what is your perspective on this and what if, since you, as I mentioned,
11:04man of the soil, if you were talking about that perspective then what kind of problems do
11:07you feel that your hometown that you really want to have?
11:11I think that those people who go to the villages, or we are now in the shooting,
11:17so you will ask them and tell them, they have changed a lot.
11:24Our villages, the villages, the hospitals, the cities, they have changed a lot.
11:36They have changed very well in the decades.
11:53So, today the things that we see in the city, that the city of the village is like this,
11:59they are going to be very far away.
12:03So, when we go to the village, they are going to be very good.
12:07They are going to be very far away.
12:10And if we think that they are going to be here, they are going to be very far away.
12:16That is not.
12:18They are going to be very far away.
12:19Now, when I go to the village,
12:23which is your question,
12:24to me,
12:26the time I was there,
12:29when I was in the village,
12:30which is Greek,
12:34there was no food,
12:35there was no food,
12:36it was not that people made polyhouse,
12:40and now there were those foods that didn't exist in India.
12:45There is no place in the land.
12:47In the land,
12:52the land is built in the land and built in the land.
12:56So it has been changed and changed.
13:00Yes.
13:01Questions for the both of you.
13:04You are with Sir.
13:06I am with Sir.
13:10So I wanted to know from both of you,
13:12how was your experience working with him and Vanessa?
13:16Considering both are on-screen or off-screen.
13:20Sir, did you want to know how was your experience
13:22and if any kind of memory or anecdote that could go for a show?
13:25No, I feel like I said this before,
13:27that in season 1, neither of us shot with Vanessa.
13:31We only did prep with Vanessa.
13:33And in season 2, we didn't do any prep with Vanessa,
13:36but we shot with Vanessa.
13:38So I think our shoot memories were very fun.
13:41because my first shoot was this really cold,
13:46two nights, night shoot.
13:49So, you know, it was just like night shoot,
13:51something called night shoot that just brings people close.
13:53So it was just lots of fun,
13:55thandi, chilling in the fireplace.
13:58And of course, you know, meeting Sir for the first time,
14:00hearing who he is and then getting to meet him.
14:03So it was sweet.
14:04Vanessa also, I had met in prep.
14:07I also firstly thought he was very serious and all.
14:10But he was also full of Mazzakya.
14:11They say anything.
14:12So it was the perfect combination of, you know,
14:16people to come together.
14:18Everyone just, no one takes themselves too seriously,
14:20even though they are, you know, very big personalities.
14:23So for someone like me who gets intimidated easily,
14:27I think it was, it was a very nice and like warming experience.
14:31Yeah.
14:34Seem, actually, if I can see technically,
14:37then we are not in one scene,
14:40probably not in one scene.
14:42This time we are also on the phone phone.
14:45Yeah.
14:46It's in one scene.
14:47It's in one scene.
14:48It's in one scene.
14:49And in the last season, Viniya Sir was in one scene.
14:51In which we were actually physically,
14:53we were in front of ourselves.
14:54In which we were physically in front of ourselves.
15:04Otherwise, of course,
15:09you live in front of ourselves.
15:10You hang out,
15:12you hang out,
15:12you hang out,
15:13you hang out,
15:13you hang out,
15:13you hang out,
15:13you hang out,
15:14you hang out,
15:15you hang out,
15:16you hang out.
15:17So these are,
15:19I think, pleasant experiences.
15:21You only observe and learn.
15:23From people who are senior to you,
15:25who have more experience,
15:27not just in acting,
15:28but in life.
15:28I think,
15:29and that is,
15:30uh,
15:30that is,
15:31and acting,
15:32also derives from life.
15:33So,
15:34if you are learning this,
15:35that you are learning,
15:35you are eventually learning.
15:37You are learning,
15:38you are learning,
15:38you are learning.
15:39Like I said,
15:40Viniya Sirwala,
15:41the scene was very magical.
15:42It was,
15:43the scene is designed
15:45that he is saying
15:45and I am listening.
15:47And,
15:47one scene,
15:48maybe three minutes,
15:49it takes 8 hours.
15:51So,
15:51remember,
15:51he was saying
15:52and I was listening.
15:54And,
15:55it was a monologue
15:55that he performed brilliantly
15:57and he was going to go.
15:58There was a flight.
15:59So,
16:00okay,
16:00retake,
16:01retake,
16:01I am ready.
16:02We will do it quickly.
16:04So,
16:04it was almost a magical experience
16:07because,
16:07it's almost,
16:08real follows,
16:10real or real
16:12distinctions
16:12has become a little
16:13because,
16:13you are suddenly surprised
16:15and you are listening to
16:16a person
16:17and you are seeing his magic
16:18that they are taking on the screen
16:19and they are interpreting the scene
16:21and they are
16:22directly
16:23that monologue
16:24in front of you.
16:25So,
16:26the reaction is actually
16:27the actual reaction
16:29that you feel
16:29doing.
16:30So,
16:31that,
16:31I think,
16:32you just,
16:33I guess,
16:33if you are quiet enough
16:35and you
16:37let yourself
16:38ease out
16:39enough,
16:40which,
16:40both people are very good
16:41in that way
16:42easy to do
16:43then,
16:44I guess,
16:44you will get to learn a lot.
16:47Right.
16:47Amal,
16:48do you want to ask me this?
16:50You really want to ask me?
16:51I really do.
16:52Really, really want to ask me.
16:53Okay.
16:54Really, really want to ask me.
16:55Okay.
16:55I mean,
16:56not just from the perspective of a journalist
16:58but also from a perspective of an audience
17:00and a fan as well.
17:01Oh, so sweet.
17:02So,
17:03we have seen you play a complete number of roles
17:06where you have definitely surpassed a fuller expectations
17:10but
17:11there is one role
17:12There is a but.
17:13There is a but.
17:26It is just associated with you, I think, for life now.
17:30Yeah.
17:30You know, a lot of times actors,
17:32when I ask a similar question to a few actors,
17:34they are,
17:36their reactions are like,
17:37you know,
17:37you want to cut away from that,
17:39break away from that character.
17:40You know,
17:40I want to evolve.
17:41I want audience to see me in a different.
17:43This and that.
17:44I want to know that
17:45what is your take
17:46and how do you look at it
17:48when people,
17:48despite the fact that
17:49you have played so many amazing roles,
17:51people still remember this.
17:54I think again,
17:55this part of my knowledge
17:55I got to get tripling from another senior actor.
18:01In 2013,
18:01I had a film shoot
18:02and there was a lot of shooting
18:05and scenes
18:06with Manoj Bajpayee sir.
18:09And in Hyderabad,
18:10we had the first schedule
18:11and in the first schedule
18:12there were three actors
18:13in the car.
18:14The whole schedule was in the car.
18:15So shoot
18:15is not happening,
18:16we were sitting in the car.
18:17There were a lot of stories.
18:19So I noticed
18:19that in Hyderabad
18:20there was a lot of shooting
18:21in a place,
18:22and people knew that
18:23there was a shooting.
18:24And people said,
18:25hey,
18:26we're talking about it.
18:28I thought,
18:28I don't know how to feel
18:30about it.
18:30So I asked him,
18:31and we had a little friend.
18:32And as much as serious
18:33they were,
18:34as much as serious.
18:36So we played some boys-boys
18:38and boys.
18:39So I asked him,
18:39I don't think
18:40that was 15,
18:4115,
18:4215,
18:4220,
18:4325 years ago,
18:44there was a character
18:45and you know,
18:46what you've done,
18:47you've done,
18:48you've done,
18:48you've done,
18:50you've done,
18:51countless characters.
18:52So you've got to see
18:54you've done,
18:54you've done,
18:56you've done,
18:58you've done,
18:59you've done,
19:00you've done,
19:00and that line was wisdom.
19:04You said,
19:04that actor
19:04would turn a whole career
19:06in the background.
19:07If someone would be
19:08to get into it,
19:09your character
19:10will get caught me
19:11and if someone will get caught
19:13in the mind.
19:14I'll fight
19:14a little.
19:15It's a privilege
19:16that it has been so much effect that it has not been effected in 25 years.
19:21Even when he sees it, he reminds me of the same thing.
19:24And that was such an interesting perspective on this whole thing.
19:29And this is before Tripling even happened to me.
19:31And so when it happened to me, I realized that this is a privilege.
19:34I am just starting out as my first web show.
19:36And if it happens in the first web show,
19:38people are not able to distinguish between you and the character
19:42to the point where I know that when I meet people in real life,
19:44people are disappointed.
19:46Because people think that people are going to be very fun.
19:49It will be fun, it will be party,
19:50and this is my character in that way.
19:52And they would be able to see me and say,
19:54sorry, thank you, no no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
19:56no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
19:56I don't do a party, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
19:58So I see that that I was a little bit of a pain in my eyes.
20:01This is no more person, this is no more person.
20:04Now people know that, yeah, Amol is probably like this,
20:08he has seen other work or my interviews.
20:10But it has been like this.
20:14Yes, it has been like this, it has been like this, it has been like this, but...
20:17Sir, it has been like that, it has not been like that.
20:20If you say one more time,
20:21I always say it, I always say it, I always say it,
20:25and I always say it.
20:25And I am happy with that.
20:27And within 10 years,
20:29one or two,
20:31people have started mentioning Sardar Udham also.
20:33Now a little bit of Prabhat also.
20:35Today I saw someone who made a fan account type reel
20:39that said,
20:39Chitvan, it's fine, now I love Prabhat.
20:43This is such a big privilege,
20:44that it is not just one.
20:45I will probably get two other characters
20:47that people know.
20:49So that, I take it as a complete privilege
20:54and an honour and I feel lucky
20:56that this happened to me so early.
20:58So I think Amol is more of Baba in drama?
21:04I would say I don't know.
21:06I can be anything.
21:07I can be Chitvan also.
21:08I have moments when I can be Chitvan.
21:11I have moments when I can be Baba.
21:13I have moments when I can be Chanchal.
21:14And I probably have moments when I can be like uncle and auntie
21:18and some daddy-mummy type
21:20so I would like to believe that I am all of it.
21:25I am Prabhat also.
21:27Right?
21:27And I am other characters also.
21:29This question is for Kanchar.
21:31Firstly, a little late to congratulate you
21:33but I just saw new stories some time ago
21:35that you won an award for the first season.
21:37Yeah, last night.
21:38Yeah, last night.
21:39Congratulations.
21:40Thank you sir.
21:41Congratulations, Kanchar.
21:43And you are playing the role of a doctor.
21:45I think Dr. Gandhi.
21:46Right?
21:47Yeah.
21:47Yeah.
21:49So, I am on-screen the medical practitioner.
21:53Right?
21:54But off-screen also you have taken some very very important medical decisions
21:58which even in today's era people
22:01I will be very sceptical.
22:03Egg freezing.
22:04Yes.
22:05I wanted to know that
22:07why you, me or the girls over here
22:10who are well bred, who are independent,
22:12who are modern
22:13may be okay with the decision
22:15but I really wanted to know
22:16what was your parents' reaction
22:17when they, when you had a discussion with them?
22:20How did they take all of this?
22:22And how, was it difficult to convince them
22:24or were they very easy about it?
22:26No, I think I am at that age
22:28where my parents fully trust my judgement
22:30and I don't really have to convince them
22:32for one thing or the other.
22:34For my dad, it was more explanation
22:36because he doesn't understand.
22:37He doesn't come from the school of thought.
22:40Obviously, he is also not a female
22:42to understand the intricacies
22:44of our body, body clocks, etc.
22:47My mother was more or less,
22:49she was first like,
22:50I don't want to do it,
22:51you know, a little bit.
22:53And when I explained to her
22:54what's going on in my head,
22:55what's happening around,
22:57she was like,
22:57come on, I trust you and you should do it.
22:59And she was so damn supportive.
23:01My dad, of course, was also,
23:03he's like, you know, like,
23:04I don't know what you're doing
23:05but I'm proud of you.
23:06You know, in that zone.
23:07And yeah, they were,
23:08I didn't have to convince them.
23:09Otherwise, I think they have that much faith in me.
23:12And it was the right and smart decision
23:15to have taken.
23:16So, yeah.
23:17I don't know.
23:19It's a bit of intense question.
23:21It's a bit of fun.
23:23But I really wanted to know that
23:26when we talk about content,
23:28we have content in Hindi movies.
23:29We have content in Hindi movies.
23:31Mostly we have cinema.
23:33We have cinema.
23:34We have cinema.
23:34We have any regional cinema.
23:36And it's said that
23:38more than Bollywood,
23:39your regional cinemas have a lot more storytelling.
23:43I wanted to know that
23:45that when we talk about Gojpuri cinema,
23:47or even more that matter,
23:47South cinema recently,
23:49I'm not asking you to talk about her.
23:52But,
23:53recently,
23:56about women's objectification
23:57in Gojpuri cinema also,
24:00in South cinema also.
24:01Do you feel that this is the reason why
24:04in Gojpuri cinema,
24:05despite the fact that
24:06they do have good movies,
24:09if their content is available,
24:11their stories are available,
24:12they are genuinely nice.
24:14but they don't get respect,
24:16because these things
24:17are more focused on camera.
24:20Sir,
24:21do we want to avoid this question?
24:22We can avoid this question.
24:24But even before,
24:24it's more similar.
24:26I don't know.
24:27I'll tell you one line.
24:29I think that
24:31in any industry,
24:33every kind of cinema is made.
24:35Every kind of content is made.
24:37So,
24:37like Bollywood,
24:40South cinema,
24:41Bhojpuri cinema,
24:42Marathi cinema,
24:44it's more like
24:45cinema,
24:45every industry,
24:46every class of cinema is made.
24:49But,
24:50when we do a particular work to highlight,
24:57once we focus on a single project,
24:58we feel like
24:58that we work in this work,
25:00that we work in some of this work,
25:00but that's not true.
25:27I think that's pretty much should be up to an end to
25:30interview with this
25:32and I would really really like to wish you all the luck
25:34for the season 2 of the show
25:36and yeah
25:38hopefully you guys
25:39more awards
25:40thank you
25:44thank you so much
25:45thank you
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