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Mumbai, Maharashtra: In an exclusive interview with IANS, actor Zahid Khan opened up about portraying Ajmal Kasab in 'Bharat Bhagya Vidhata', revealing why he initially hesitated to take on one of India's most controversial roles and how extensive research helped him prepare. He reflected on the emotional impact of the character, the guidance he received from his mentor and the confidence his FTII training instilled in him. Zahid also shared insights from working with Ranbir Kapoor, Ayushmann Khurrana and Kangana Ranaut, discussed his transition to playing Angad in 'Ramayana', and explained why compelling storytelling matters more than scale in cinema.

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00:00First of all, welcome to INS.
00:02Thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
00:04Sir, if you are wondering,
00:06this is the Bharat Bhagya Vidhata.
00:08I am an Ajwan Kasap-Kiridhar.
00:11It is a very sensitive and emotional subject.
00:15So, when your Ajwan Kasap's role was offered,
00:17what was the first reaction?
00:19My first reaction was,
00:23actually, I didn't want to do this.
00:25Initially,
00:26because it was a very hated character.
00:29The whole country,
00:29it was the same.
00:31In fact, I also do it.
00:33So, when I started a negative character,
00:35and my career started,
00:39I didn't have a negative character.
00:42So, I was very, very, very doubtful.
00:46Then, my teacher, mentor,
00:48I have a film called Z5.
00:51His name is Safiya Sabdar.
00:53His name is Baba Azmi.
00:54He is my mentor.
00:56I have a film of my second film.
00:59He was my friend.
01:00So, he told me that,
01:01baby,
01:02you are on a career,
01:04whatever you want to do,
01:05whatever your work is,
01:05just show up.
01:07You do it.
01:08And if your work is good,
01:09then you will also be able to keep your work.
01:11So,
01:12you will have to make a typecast,
01:15no tension of the image,
01:17you might want to make a typecast.
01:25So I just followed my philosophy because I don't like my mother, I don't like this role.
01:31My mother doesn't like it, I don't like it.
01:32So she told me that I am very happy and happy characters.
01:35I am happy and happy to see people who are happy.
01:40How was your contribution to contemporary characters?
01:43How was it challenging for this role?
01:46How did you research this role?
01:48I did a lot of research.
01:53Actually, when this character came to me in December.
01:58And actually, his preparation started in August.
02:01In August, I made two or three films for this character.
02:06So I made an audition for him.
02:07So when I made an audition for him, I did a lot of work.
02:09And I did a lot of work in the shortlist.
02:16But in December, I had a lot of work in my character.
02:18So my preparation is already really good.
02:20So I had to write a lot of work in this film.
02:23There is a lot of work available on YouTube.
02:24So I was working on the chief investigating officer.
02:28And I was working on this case.
02:29So I was working on a book called Kassab and I.
02:32So he told me that Kassab was doing a whole thing.
02:35The knowledge that Kassab was doing his training,
02:36What kind of training was done?
02:38What kind of brainwashed was done?
02:40From those who were very easily and told him,
02:42That he was brainwashed.
02:43How did the brainwashed happen?
02:45It was a complete process.
02:49So many documentaries, books, incidents, and interviews
02:54in which they were talking about what they were talking about
02:59and what they were describing.
03:00So, I prepared the character.
03:04As characters play,
03:07we need to balance the character.
03:10We need to understand their ideology.
03:12How did you handle this challenge?
03:15Yes, this was the most challenging part.
03:19Because,
03:20Kassab was a man who had interviewed,
03:24watched and watched in documentaries.
03:26So, he said that he was attacking
03:27like a child with a gun,
03:30and he was attacking someone.
03:31He was attacking someone.
03:32He was attacking someone.
03:33And I was attacking someone.
03:35Because I was a vegetarian.
03:38So, I was against all the killings.
03:41He was attacking someone.
03:42So, I said,
03:43how do I relate?
03:44And how do I reach it?
03:46And how do I reach it?
03:47So, it was very difficult for me to think about
03:49that my ideology is that I want to kill someone.
03:53So,
03:54it was very difficult for me to find out.
03:55it was very difficult for me.
03:57they say that,
03:59good and evil
04:01to be able
04:02It's a whole story.
04:03You have to acquire a ram.
04:05You have to acquire something.
04:07You have to acquire a character.
04:09You have to acquire a character.
04:10You have to get into it.
04:11You have to find yourself.
04:12you have to find a character to find it.
04:15You have to find yourself.
04:17And you have to find yourself and find yourself.
04:24I think that the moment of shooting was the same moment when you felt positive and emotional impact?
04:29In the shooting time, there was no such moment.
04:35But the preparation was the same.
04:37You felt like you were feeling like this?
04:41I think that when I reached the stage, I was prepared for myself.
04:47But the painful moment was the time of preparation.
04:49I had a lot of time for my time.
04:50I was always reading and reading and reading.
04:55Now you are going to sleep and read a little more.
04:59I had to read documentaries on the night.
05:02It was always disturbing.
05:05It was always painful.
05:07I would love to do the work in the morning and not do the work.
05:11I could sleep in the morning.
05:12I would like to see light things on your balance.
05:17The audience has had a lot of time for your performance, but how did you get the feedback from the
05:22industry?
05:24Did you say that your work was really good?
05:29I got a good feedback from our film and all the nurses in the film
05:37I met Smita Tambi and I met him in the film
05:42I called him first and I met him very many actors
05:45I met him in Singham
05:48I didn't have any acting and I was like, what a good scene is
05:53I didn't remember him in the film
05:55I really like your work.
05:59When it launched the trailer,
06:02the ma'am told me that you are my favorite actress.
06:06After watching the film, you are my favorite actress.
06:10That was my favorite performance.
06:13He told me that it was good.
06:18In real incidents,
06:20there is an extra responsibility for actors.
06:23Do you think that this role has changed as an actor?
06:28Yes, very much.
06:32You know that life is not as much as you are watching.
06:36There are also many different things.
06:38For example, I don't do research on this topic.
06:41Why do I do as a human?
06:43Why do I do as a human in 2016?
06:46But when you film films,
06:48you will know that there is a whole system
06:50which one seems to be a women who are very human,
06:56who are not just working,
06:57who are not doing and they're being weaponized,
06:59who are being brainwashy,
06:59who are being evil and people are making evil work.
07:02So I think these things,
07:03these fascinants of this character,
07:05in which I should do.
07:06Why would I become a person
07:07who will think of this...
07:10FTI journey and acting process after trading in industry, what challenges do you have to do with the challenges?
07:23Challenges are in this field.
07:28FTI has to be confident in itself.
07:37I have a confidence in FTI.
07:40I feel like I have a process.
07:43I know how to do it.
07:45It depends on the roles and how to channelize the roles.
07:52It depends on the roles that you have to do with the roles that you have to do with the
08:02roles.
08:02What is the role of the roles?
08:49What the role of the role of the roles are there?
08:49So, we can be able to do something, we can be able to do something, but we need to be
08:55able to do something in any type class.
09:00So, I believe in this philosophy.
09:04Every actor has a rejection and uncertainty.
09:08How was the difficult phase in your career?
09:11How did you overcome this?
09:13Or, I thought, I was working on this.
09:17I thought, I would go back home.
09:20Or, I would like to go back home with that.
09:22Or, I would like to do something, I would like to do something.
09:29The second plan was that our teachers, who Naseer has said something, when they came to the theater,
09:36and then FTI came to the theater.
09:38So, Naseer has said that if you have any plan B, leave it on that.
09:48So, there was clarity that there was no plan B.
09:51It was very clarity.
09:53But in lockdown, there was a phase when I was studying in FTI,
09:57and we had three sinisters.
09:58So, lockdown was over.
10:00It was about a quarter of a time.
10:01We were empty.
10:03So, I thought, how will it happen?
10:06Acting is very difficult.
10:07How will it happen?
10:08How will it happen?
10:08How will it happen?
10:09When will it happen in Bombay?
10:11When will it happen?
10:12When will it happen?
10:12When will it happen?
10:13In those things, it was negative.
10:15But my teacher in Delhi, Mohit Tripathi Sir.
10:18I was only actor.
10:20I am an actor.
10:22I took them through my life on lockdown.
10:25I left an actor.
10:26I took my acting classes at lockdown.
10:27And ended up doing two on lockdown.
10:28I醜 I played an actor,
10:29and played an actor.
10:30And, I liked it.
10:32And then, I thought,
10:32OK.
10:33Now, when I do it, everything will work.
10:35So, I don't have much attention.
10:37You are now looking at this one.
10:43So what are your thoughts on your journey?
10:49Every step for me is just a wonder.
10:53I'm just amazed.
10:55I want to see what happens.
11:00I want to see what happens.
11:02I think what happens is that I have done so much work from my community.
11:06The town is all in the city.
11:10If you don't get the result of this in the city,
11:11even if you don't have to get the result of this in the city in the city.
11:11But, in the city of Angath,
11:14I am very proud to have done the part of Angath.
11:20You went into Angath as a person's great.
11:28The part of Angath is the very opposite of Angath.
11:31Then I went to Ramayana.
11:34The best thing is this.
11:36As I finished my work, I can easily shift my focus on the other work.
11:40This is finished.
11:43In Ramayana, we had physical training.
11:46You are doing the movement.
11:49You should walk like an ape.
11:51You should feel like a monkey.
11:53That's all we have learned.
11:54I had a lot of difficulty because when you learn what, when, where, why, how, who,
12:04this is how you learn how to learn.
12:05This is how you study for a computer, this is how you study for a computer.
12:09It was how you study reality.
12:10Now it is how you do it.
12:16How did you learn how to do this?
12:20How did you learn the experience with this?
12:21Did you get to learn something or do you remember them?
12:26I will tell you, when I shot them, there was a scene where they were opposite Chandon Roy Sanyal.
12:37So the camera was put on them.
12:40Ghanvi Kapoor Ji was giving cues for them.
12:44So I saw that they are behind the camera and they are giving cues.
12:49They asked me, do you need Ranvir Kapoor to give cues?
12:57Chandon said, it's okay, I will do it.
13:00But Ranvir said, no, I would love to give cues.
13:05So that was so good.
13:06And they gave the whole cues and enhanced the performance.
13:10And this is exactly the same.
13:11So when we make an audition, when we make an audition, if someone has a friend, I am making an
13:15audition.
13:16So why would I give it to him?
13:18I would like to be a father, a wife, a child, a child.
13:22I would like to be a cue so that his performance could be good.
13:26And that scene could be good.
13:27I saw that Ranvir Kapoor.
13:29So this was a good scene.
13:32That scene could be a good scene.
13:37So this scene could be a good scene.
13:39And we now have a good scene.
13:43I don't have to be a good scene.
13:45And that scene could be a good scene.
13:53We're in the scenes, we're in the same direction.
13:55But I don't have to be a good scene.
14:00I was nervous.
14:01I was nervous.
14:04He was standing standing by the way.
14:06He told me about the scene.
14:07He told me about it.
14:10Hi.
14:11I said hi sir.
14:13I am a physician.
14:14I am sorry.
14:16He told me how to break the scene.
14:19We were able to break the scene.
14:22He told me about the scene.
14:23In fact, there was a scene.
14:25He said to him,
14:28He told me about it.
14:30He told me about it.
14:31Of course, of course.
14:33He went to me and walked.
14:36He came to me and came to me.
14:37He gave me all the cues and performed.
14:39He also felt the scene better.
14:43In the industry and cinema,
14:45especially in Bollywood,
14:47there are cinema and life-tacticals
14:50of both children.
14:52How do you feel about the expectation
14:53in which direction?
14:55I don't know the audience.
14:59I am an audience.
15:01I am an actor.
15:02I am an actor.
15:02I am an actor.
15:03I am so happy that I get to see more and more good stories.
15:08As an audience.
15:09As an actor, I get to see more stories.
15:12I don't have to see the scale.
15:15I feel like narrative film is very strong.
15:17I do not want to see a story.
15:19I don't want to see a story around the world.
15:21But, I want to see a story about it.
15:24That was really good.
15:25The story is very good.
15:26If you don't want to see a story
15:30I am an actor.
15:42If you don't want to see a story,
15:44you don't want to see a film.
15:45I was surprised that I didn't see anyone's face or not.
15:54What was the interaction between them?
15:57My opinion was that when I started preparing this character,
16:02I told him that Kassab and Ismail were the two characters.
16:07the other terrace, the smile and Aditya Narayan had played.
16:12So, these two are both to meet anyone in the set.
16:16We used to be in our vanity.
16:20We used to eat, we didn't contact anyone.
16:23This was the director's vision.
16:25And I didn't have a direct scene, only one scene.
16:29The last one. I performed one scene.
16:32And their give and take is very good.
16:34And they gave me give and take.
16:36So, my performance is also the same.
16:38It's always your co-actor.
16:40We used to teach the acting as a co-actor.
16:43If you're a co-actor is good, then it's because of your co-actor.
16:47If you're a co-actor, you're a co-actor.
16:49So, I'm just supportive of the co-actor.
16:49So, I'm just getting the co-actor.
16:51I'm just getting the same.
16:51I'm doing so much quality.
16:54Ajman, Kazaab, Angad, Urta.
16:57These are three different roles.
17:00So, Rahit Khan is a versatile actor.
17:02Do you have to establish that this is a conscious strategy?
17:06Or is it organically?
17:08No, there's no strategy.
17:10Because there's no strategy.
17:12So, it's organically.
17:15We're actors.
17:16We're doing FTIs.
17:17We're doing FTIs.
17:19So, now things are organically.
17:22Now, I'm not taking this, but I'm not taking it.
17:27Now, I'm doing this process.
17:30Now, I'm doing this process.
17:32So, I'm doing this work.
17:32And, Inshallah, I'm doing this work.
17:34So, I'm doing this work.
17:35And, I'm doing this work.
17:38But, I want to offer it so much.
17:40So, we're doing this work in a very new phase.
17:43So, I'm open to any character which has some substance to it.
17:47Through form and intercom.
17:48So, we're looking at the same type,
17:48so, it's a challenge.
17:48so, we're doing this toappreciate,
17:48And, after then,
17:48something that's going to happen,
17:49it's deep and SAM.

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