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Mumbai, Maharashtra: In this exclusive interview with IANS, actress Chetna Pande opened up about her transformative journey in 'Haunted 3D: Echoes of the Past' and working with acclaimed filmmaker Vikram Bhatt. She reflected on how personal emotional struggles helped her portray Sunheri with authenticity, shared memorable experiences from filming the horror thriller, and discussed the importance of resilience, talent, and emotional honesty in acting. Chetna also spoke about overcoming the impact of reality show scrutiny, her on-screen chemistry with Mimoh, and why she considers 'Haunted 3D: Echoes of the Past' a major turning point in her career and a significant milestone in Indian horror cinema.


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00:00Chitnati, first of all, welcome to INS.
00:02Thank you so much for having me.
00:04And first of all, we will talk about Haunted 3D goes on the past Vikram Bhatt's horror universe.
00:10So, what was your reaction to this film?
00:14And what did you instantly excite this project?
00:19I think Vikram sir, if you are directing a film and it's a horror film,
00:26I think Vikram sir is the pioneer of Indian horror films.
00:35I think in the industry, a trend started in the industry.
00:40Haunted was the first 3D, stereotypical kind of a film,
00:46which has done such a wonderful work in the past.
00:51And people have not seen the film until today.
00:55I have seen people's craze for the past,
00:59It was massive.
01:01The songs have been the first film of the past 15 years.
01:06So, I think it's very difficult.
01:08It's a time when we have a span of very little.
01:12It's very difficult.
01:12It's very difficult.
01:16It's very difficult.
01:19It's very difficult.
01:21It's very difficult.
01:23So, when I got to know that I am getting this chance,
01:26I think it was a big blessing for me.
01:30In the horror genre, the audience is not acting,
01:32but the emotions and fear are equally judged.
01:35So, what have you prepared for your character?
01:40I think that I prepared for this character mentally and emotionally.
01:45I prepared myself myself.
01:48When I started this film,
01:52I was in such a situation.
01:54I was very frustrated mentally.
01:56I was very frustrated.
01:57I was very frustrated.
02:01I was very frustrated.
02:01I was very frustrated.
02:01But, what do you think?
02:03What do you think?
02:03Everything that is in my life,
02:05there is no reason.
02:07So,
02:08If you are very sad in your life,
02:12you don't get tension when you are prepared for someone.
02:16In my life,
02:18the most difficult and emotional time was
02:23I have not been able to do that.
02:24At that time,
02:25I was shooting my film.
02:27I was very similar to the character's journey.
02:33So,
02:34I got my inspiration in my real life.
02:39I transformed my real life pain
02:42into my journey.
02:48Vigram Bhatt
02:49has become a pioneer of Indian horror genre.
02:50So what have you learned about filmmaking and performance levels?
02:57I have learned something with Vikram sir, that Vikram sir doesn't teach you acting, he teaches you soul.
03:06And I think he is one of the directors who understand your soul and your body and help you with
03:13that.
03:16So I have learned something with Vikram sir, that when I was very frustrated in my life,
03:24I did a reality show and I was very disturbed and frustrated,
03:30that something broke in me.
03:32So when I met Vikram sir, he said that something broke in me,
03:36but to keep it in mind and use it in the right place.
03:40Because these emotions are very special in humans,
03:46but sometimes we waste them in different places.
03:49So I think I used our emotions in the right place.
03:51And Vikram sir taught me how we can use our real life emotions in our work.
03:59And I think that we can use a very strong character, you know,
04:05character comes out of the way.
04:08In the genre of horror films,
04:10usually when actors do horror films,
04:14sometimes there will be some creepy things on the set.
04:17So you want to share some anecdotes?
04:18What do you want to share with us?
04:20I haven't done anything on Haunted set.
04:25But one thing I remember,
04:27that when I was shooting in the first sequence,
04:30when our ghost was introduced,
04:34a lot of scenes were being used.
04:35So some times,
04:36there are scenes scenes that
04:37where I'm sitting below my window and my scene,
04:40then I took my right breath after my massage.
04:43So I remember,
04:44that when we were shooting a scene,
04:45that I couldn't tell you,
04:47that people would pull you,
04:50So,
04:51I remember,
04:51that I performed by the moment,
04:52that when I first performed,
04:53then your harness gets hit.
04:55They sometimes hit me,
04:59and they just hit me.
05:00So after that, when I go home and sleep at night, because I think that our unconscious mind,
05:07the day things that are going on, that's why we look at night, we have dreams.
05:12So in that moment, I was scared of the dreams that I am somewhere and I am doing something
05:16and suddenly there was something that I hit behind.
05:20So that was a thing that I had to go back for a long time.
05:23So I felt that in the night that I was scared of my unconscious mind.
05:32The horror film is that you have to perform with green scenes and VFX.
05:38Was this a scene that was technically or emotionally challenging?
05:43I think that all of the scenes are a very challenging journey.
05:49When we were shooting Sunheiri's past experience, there were many sequences that were very tragic.
06:00Sunheiri's character was a very strong point, which I remember,
06:05is that the character is one of those things.
06:08Some of them are a king, but some of them are one of those things.
06:13Some of them are two of them are two of them.
06:14Some of them are both подход DJs who face, because everyone looks wrong with a human being.
06:23That's why some of them are crazy.
06:24And they're scared of life after that.
06:25So I think it's the one that I felt like in my life so that that's why sometimes
06:30someone forced him for love for something.
06:36I think it was a tragic feeling.
06:38and when I performed those scenes, I think those scenes have disturbed me a lot of times
06:46when you feel a color touch or anything like that.
06:51It is a very disturbing scenario.
06:54I feel a lot of people who are in real life with Sunhaari, that I have felt a lot of
07:01emotion that is sad.
07:07How do you strengthen the on-screen chemistry and working equation?
07:12I think people are already loving Sunhaari and Dev.
07:18Because of the off-screen equation that we had,
07:22from the day one, I think Mimo is one of the most beautiful human beings that I have met.
07:29And I think that there is no side of self.
07:34That he is very selfish.
07:37He is a wonderful person,
07:39who always brings us to our actor.
07:42And I think he made me very comfortable from day one.
07:45And our equation was a lot of love equation off-screen.
07:49Perhaps that's why we were so comfortable with all the scenes.
07:52And that's why Dev and Sunhaari's emotions came from a very loving way.
07:59And people have really loved it.
08:02There is no place to be fed up.
08:03we have masculinized the citizens to show that us
08:05therefore the victims don't show that our characters too.
08:11So do we might see them in the series?
08:11As in fact, people are seeking to be solid-land.
08:11It is definitely in terms of the why we thinkatever we speaknow.
08:17In our country today, there are so many women struggling with the same law.
08:23We have to choose where else we are.
08:26There are some girls who are choose your life and life and work
08:31After you choose from dating after dating, Phamilies and Family
08:35You can choose some such individual life
08:39So, after hearing a character, is the struggle of a girl
08:44If you love someone from another person
08:48If you trust someone wrongly, then you can destroy your life
08:51and that's how it gets destroyed.
08:53There are many challenges in a woman's life and in Sunhehri's life
08:57that she is a victim but she doesn't want to fight.
09:04She doesn't want to fight.
09:05She doesn't want to fight.
09:06She has confidence that she will get out of here and she will see the light.
09:12And I just want to say for everybody who is going through any kind of turmoil in their life
09:17I just want to say that if you don't want to fight and fight for the right things
09:23then you will be free from that character.
09:26So I think Sunhehri's character has a stereotype that
09:30that no one has to be a victim.
09:33After being a victim, you have to be a strong person.
09:37And you have to fight and fight.
09:42In the social media, actors and acting talent
09:45you have to judge each other.
09:49So what do you think?
09:49In the performance, there is a lot of pressure.
09:53But I think the pressure was always true.
09:56I think the pressure was always true.
09:56I think the first time we were doing auditions,
09:58we were going to the audition room,
10:00there were almost 50-60-100 people.
10:03So the competition is always going on.
10:05There are so many people who are fighting.
10:08What is happening now?
10:10The challenge is a different type of challenge.
10:11At least, now there is a challenge of numbers.
10:14Because in social media, everyone has a platform,
10:17everyone has a phone and a talent.
10:20So I think in social media,
10:22you can see your talent very well.
10:26And some people connect with talent.
10:28So their numbers are coming.
10:30So definitely, if you are working on yourself,
10:33if you have any talent,
10:35then you can't stop.
10:36And you can't stop.
10:38And you can't stop.
10:39And you can't stop.
10:41And you can't stop.
10:41In reality show,
10:42you have also seen your personal life
10:43as a part of the public Sudanese.
10:46So did you make this exposure stronger?
10:49Or did you make this emotional effect?
10:51I think,
10:52if you have made something stronger,
10:55if you have made something more strong,
10:56then after this reality show,
10:58I was very upset.
11:00They say that the thing that you have broken,
11:03you are stronger.
11:06So when I came out of that show,
11:10I was very upset.
11:10And I was very disappointed.
11:13And I was very disappointed.
11:13With trolling,
11:14with the narrative.
11:15People said a lot.
11:17But at that time,
11:18I was also shooting at Haunted.
11:19So what happens?
11:21There is a very downfall.
11:24You are emotionally broken.
11:26But if you use it in a right way,
11:29you can convert that heart in a very big jeep.
11:33Which has happened to me.
11:35I have made the most down moments of my life,
11:38and made the most strong strength.
11:41And I have worked with my character.
11:45And today,
11:46I have worked with my film and the character of the cinema.
11:50And the world has been very passionate.
11:53So I think that is a great success.
11:55You have worked with film, television, OTT and reality shows.
11:59Do you think Haunted is the turning point of your career?
12:03Definitely, it is my life.
12:04It is like a turning point.
12:05Because Haunted is my first film.
12:11In which I am looking at a lead role.
12:14I am always looking at posters.
12:15I have always wanted to see you in a story.
12:20Which is a very strong role.
12:22And to crack a strong role for a girl.
12:27Because it is a business.
12:29And you know,
12:31People will take a small characters.
12:34But you have to get a big film.
12:35It is a very big thing.
12:37I don't know how much of my life is going to reach here.
12:40So for me,
12:42and the way I have performed it in this film.
12:44And the way I love it in the box office.
12:48I think it is a big turning point.
12:50And I don't want to look back now from here.
12:52I have to make another challenge.
12:55And continue to do more.
12:57And continue to do more.
12:57What the horror films does have compared to international standards?
13:01Do you think that Indian horror movies
13:02are finally reaching that level?
13:04Where you can connect with global audience too?
13:06Of course and I think a very loving thing that Vikram sir has recently said
13:12which has gone viral on the internet
13:15He also asked that today's time's most viral film is Obsession
13:21and when Vikram sir asked that he was like
13:25I have made it very first
13:26so Raaz's story is related to Obsession
13:33because in Obsession there is a woman who is obsessed with her boyfriend
13:38she wants a wish and she is obsessed with her
13:40If you go back and see Raaz's story
13:43then there is also a woman who loves him
13:46and loves him so much that he is obsessed with him
13:49and he is dead and he is dead
13:50and he wants to be dead
13:53so if you correlate both of these things
13:55then he is right
13:57and when I saw him and related
14:01so I think Nicky is connected to Maya
14:06and they have not made this film
14:08and we have made this film
14:10so I think in our Hollywood films
14:12there are also some inspiration for many Hollywood films
14:18so we give inspiration from there
14:21I think people also give inspiration from Indian cinema
14:23and also people also give inspiration
14:25Lastly, what would you like to give audience's message?
14:28I just want to give this message
14:29that thank you so much Haunted
14:31so much for giving so much love
14:33and your love and support
14:35in our film box office
14:38so we have made a lot of good numbers
14:39and hit to you
14:40and it was really important to work this film
14:43because it was my first step in the film industry
14:48and thank you so much
14:49and please love you all
14:51and I will see you very soon
14:52and I will see you very interesting
14:56and just keep loving it
14:58absolutely, thank you
14:58I am so looking thank you
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