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Shekhar Suman, the OG entertainer and one of television's most loved hosts, is back with his new YouTube show 'Shekhar Tonite'. But behind this exciting chapter there's a journey full of transitions - from films to TV, back to films, OTT & now digital platforms. He has seen it all and takes it proudly, believing that it is impactful roles that make an actor, not the screen platform or the length of the role. A strong motive and great thought must inspire millions in this entertainment game. Hear him talk about his transition from Movers & Shakers, films and OTT's Heeramandi to Shekhar Tonite. Watch the full intriguing chat now, only on Lehren.

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00:08Do you also think that thinking of the success of the small screen, you did not get the same on
00:17the big screen?
00:17Do you think that was also a mistake that you gave up the small screen to go to the big
00:21screen?
00:21No, where did you go to the small screen from the big screen?
00:30Then you came to the general?
00:33No, after that I did 30 films, then I did Naachi Mayuri, Anubhav, Tidev, Ranubhumi, I don't know who did
00:38it.
00:39After that I came to the television.
01:08You wanted to make a reporter with me.
01:10and at the same time, Anand Mahindrugh said that Jaya Bachchan Ji, I thought it was making sense.
01:15And I felt that it was a work. Whether it was on this wall or on that wall, or on
01:22any other wall.
01:23Like in big films, in a lot of times, Hindustan was watching on television on Sunday movies.
01:30So, where did you see the big ones? Where did you see the big ones?
01:34Where did you see the big ones? I am a big one of the big ones.
01:37People were watching the big ones on a small screen.
01:39The big films on a small screen.
01:41So, the work is that it has to be supported.
01:44The screen doesn't have to be supported.
01:45In big screens, junior artists also work.
01:48And for 50-60 years, they do this.
01:50Yes, yes, yes, yes.
01:52It doesn't matter.
01:53That's why I didn't have any anger or anger.
01:56I worked as an actor.
01:58You were very lucky, because small screen was opening up at that time.
02:01Isn't it?
02:02Absolutely.
02:02It was a big risk, but I had to do it.
02:06I had to do it.
02:06It was a big risk.
02:07That's what I have taken over YouTube.
02:10I had to do it.
02:10People said that YouTube is not.
02:11Why don't you go to OTT?
02:12No, I had to do it.
02:14I had to do it.
02:16I had to do it.
02:22because there is a freedom of working here.
02:26Movers and shaker and shaker tonight
02:30I always see that when you say something about Vajpayee Ji,
02:38you just take on his personality.
02:40It's impersonation.
02:42There is a difference between mimicking and impersonation.
02:46It's called an impression.
02:48So, as actors also, when we look at the artist in our lives,
02:52we see how the character behaves, his disincrecies.
02:56Then, as closely as we can put it, we can put it on the board.
03:00So, we are not mimicking.
03:02We are doing impressions of that character.
03:07In that impression, you do it respectfully.
03:12So, it doesn't matter.
03:15It doesn't matter.
03:16So, it was that time when Atal Ji was there.
03:20Now, shaker tonight, there are new actors, new stories, new events.
03:23So, this is a different thing.
03:24But, sometimes, just an ode to him, a tribute to him,
03:29I will do it once again.
03:31Because many people are saying, you will see Atal Ji.
03:34So, we will do it.
03:35But, basically, this is our show, which I want to tell you,
03:39which has opened them extraordinarily well.
03:42And, everyone will resonate.
03:441.2 million, 1.3 million, straight away.
03:46Yes. So, the total viewing is close to 100 million now.
03:50So, the reals, reals, here, all of them are coming.
03:52So, people are very fast.
03:53So, wherever, wherever, everyone is connected to truth.
03:57And, one voice that is true,
03:59that is connected to each other.
04:03That's why this has happened.
04:04So, I don't call it a show.
04:07I don't call it a talk show.
04:09It's a conversation with that.
04:11It's a moment with my audience.
04:13It's a moment.
04:14It's a moment.
04:14It's not a comedy show.
04:16It's not a comedy show.
04:16A lot of people think it's a comedy show.
04:18It's not.
04:19And, I'm not a host.
04:20I'm an actor.
04:21With a social responsibility,
04:23I want to do this,
04:24I want to do this.
04:28And, because,
04:29I have a land where I am standing,
04:32I can say something.
04:34There is a drama.
04:35And, because they don't have it.
04:37So, I can do those things,
04:39which they want to do.
04:40So, I see two things in their mind.
04:42That's what I want to say.
04:44That's what I want to say.
04:45Or, I wish I can say that.
04:47So, this show is not my show.
04:50This show is very close to my heart.
04:53From the beginning.
04:55And, many people have said,
04:56I want to start this conversation.
04:58I want to start this conversation.
05:00That's how.
05:01Because, there are so many YouTubers,
05:03who have millions and millions of views.
05:05Yes.
05:06But, yours has been very different.
05:08Yours is not just a chat,
05:09but you also talk to your audience.
05:11Yes.
05:11Isn't it?
05:12Like you said,
05:13Agav Chada.
05:15You know that he has ported his SIM card.
05:18Which has gone viral.
05:21So, you say something with very current happenings.
05:25Yes.
05:25You make a comment on it.
05:27Absolutely.
05:27A comment.
05:28Which is very few people.
05:29I mean, no one does.
05:31No one does.
05:31No one does.
05:33No one does.
05:34No one does.
05:34No one does.
05:34No one does.
05:34You used to do it in movers and shakers.
05:37That space was lying in abeyance.
05:38It was lying empty.
05:40And, why did you give it that space?
05:43Because…
05:43Because I had to explore other things as an actor.
05:46Someone asked me,
05:48why did you leave movers and shakers?
05:49So, my answer was,
05:50because I was going to be very good.
05:53I was getting excelling at it.
05:55So, I had to leave it.
05:56Because, once you get the success of that,
06:01then you get complacent.
06:02Then you get the same.
06:03Then you get the same.
06:04Then you get the same.
06:04Then you get the same.
06:05Then you get the same.
06:05You get the same.
06:05You get the same.
06:05So, I have to do it.
06:07But, you know,
06:08Movers and Shakers was an experiment of an actor
06:11who played the role of an irreverent host.
06:15It was my role.
06:16It was a role that I was doing.
06:17I was like,
06:18I don't have to do it.
06:18I don't have to do it.
06:19You can do it.
06:21I do it.
06:22You do it.
06:24So, I saw that,
06:27if you can talk about the comfort of your script,
06:30you can talk about the actor's people
06:32or you need to be prompting or lines.
06:36That was very important for me.
06:39That's why I did it.
06:40And, after that,
06:41I enjoyed it and liked it.
06:44I thought that,
06:45I had had a little bit for my weekend.
06:47I went to the weekdays.
06:48My whole weekdays was prepared for the month.
06:50Then,
06:50I learned,
06:51this is going to be more have to leave.
06:53And, because I didn't have many roles.
06:57I had to do it for a while.
06:58I made many roles for a job,
06:58like I had to do it.
07:01I had to do it.
07:02I did it for a while.
07:03I didn't do it for myself.
07:04I had to do it because I had to do it too.
07:04But,
07:05there was so many pressures.
07:08The pressure,
07:08I had to do it.
07:10I then made too much pressure.
07:11I made a lot of progress.
07:12I had to do it.
07:13And I thought that in today's time, when there is so much smoke, there is a sound that is higher
07:23than the lower voice of this voice.
07:26That means you don't have to be, you don't have to shout to be heard.
07:30Do you feel you are more cut out now for this kind of show than you are for a big
07:37feature film?
07:38No, not at all. It is just a question of opportunity. Otherwise, why wouldn't Akshay Khanna suddenly appear to be
07:47one of the best actors?
07:48He has been here for so long. So long.
07:53It is all about getting the right role, the right opportunity, the right director, the right presentation.
07:59You can see how many actors who were here and there were, who were here and there were, who came
08:05and said that he had worked on.
08:07Like Bobby.
08:08Like Bobby.
08:09Bobby has also worked on the OTPP and on the other side. He also worked on the other side.
08:14He was successful at both sides. So an actor is where he was successful.
08:17And he has been written off.
08:18Bobby has been written off.
08:19He was also an actor. He was not made for any special artist. He was in all parts.
08:23Where he has the right opportunity, this is very important.
08:27So tomorrow, I will get a very beautiful role of films that I am doing.
08:31Like Prakaas Shah, I am doing a big film called Janadish.
08:34If people liked that role, I am very effective.
08:37My job is that. My job is that. My job is that.
08:40It is not that I am going to be a bad actor and here is a good actor.
08:42I am working on both sides.
08:44You were there in Heera Mandi also.
08:46Sanjil Garbansa.
08:48It was a small role.
08:49But you were there.
08:50There are no small parts, only small actors.
08:52Small actors.
08:53I believe.
08:54Yes.
08:55Did you enjoy that experience?
08:58Very.
08:58Very.
09:00It is the wrong people.
09:05It is the wrong role.
09:06It is the wrong role.
09:07You are the wrong role.
09:08You are the wrong role.
09:08You are the wrong role.
09:09You are wrong or you NE who doesn't see any用 of their disappointed job.
09:11It is the wrong role.
09:13That is the wrong role, and that is the wrong role.
09:13What happens?
09:15What happens?
09:15They say, you are wrong role.
09:20It is wrong.
09:21Ghostные ball and obstructions had there isn't much plant because vin ef Kohамguer.
09:27Mixed over.
09:28The length doesn't matter.
09:29It doesn't matter.
09:31So it is too effective than Bobbio de Vil.
09:33that you talked about in a small role, but when the film was finished, it was when it came.
09:37And I said, when will it come, the film will be finished.
09:40And it was so effective that it just resurrected him.
09:44So that bit with a maestro like Sanjay Leela Bhansali was a delight.
09:49It was an absolute delight to work.
09:50And it was a very effective role.
09:51People noticed that I have noticed that I have to be satisfied.
09:55That was enough for me.
09:56And was it nice working in the same show with my son?
09:59Very good. We didn't have any scenes together.
10:04But he played my younger part also and he played his part also.
10:07But he got a lot of appreciation.
10:10And especially that scene that he did with Manisha Kaurala and Richa Chadha.
10:16I remember that Sanjay picked up the phone and called me, which he never does.
10:21He really, you know, he is very miserly with his compliments.
10:28So it was very little.
10:30And he called me and told me that your children have done it.
10:33Everybody was clapping.
10:36So it was, you know, it was, it felt nice.
10:39So Sanjay is the most important thing that he throws things at people.
10:43He didn't see it.
10:44I wanted to see it.
10:46But he didn't get the opportunity.
10:47Because what the Sanjay I saw was somebody who was completely immersed into his work,
11:21who had the finest eye for detailing,
11:23and that's what he was doing.
11:25And if you entered the scene, Sanjay got a mobile pic,
11:28then he got a mobile pic, then he got a chadi pic.
11:31It's not like that.
11:31It's not like that.
11:33It's not like that.
11:34No, no, he's not like that at all.
11:36So you did a lot of actually different kinds of films.
11:38You did a lot of films differently.
11:40Which was so misogynistic actually.
11:42And every day, there are news that the truth is happening with suicide.
11:51The suicide case is not murder.
11:52There are many cases that have been made.
11:56Supreme Court has been broken.
11:59Supreme Court has been broken.
12:01It's a regressive film.
12:03Regressive film is.
12:05But there are people who have been doing this,
12:27I remember that it was a negative role.
12:35I remember that it was a film called Dimple, and it was a film called Dimple.
12:44And then when it comes to mind, the teacher takes a lot of pain.
12:48What does it do? It takes a lot of pain.
12:50At that time it was very small.
12:52When I started fighting, I started to kill him.
12:56I started to kill him.
12:57I started to kill him.
12:59Because I was very quiet in the theatre.
13:03I still remember that moment. Yeah, fun moments.
13:08That's true. Lots of fun moments.
13:10Not that.
13:18It's not that.
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