00:00My name is Alice and Madhura in Madhura.
00:04Your character is very different. How do you see this journey?
00:11I was 25 years old.
00:16I worked on a lot of films.
00:23There were a lot of auditions.
00:25There were a lot of work that I didn't get.
00:30There were a lot of work that made me so much satisfaction.
00:36I could continue the journey even when it got tough.
00:40I could continue the journey even when the opportunities were far and few.
00:47And because of the way Meera Nair, who was the director of Monsoon Wedding,
00:57they gave me a strong start that it really allowed me to sustain this journey.
01:06You know? Yeah.
01:08I was like, I don't know.
01:13I don't know.
01:16I don't know.
01:17I don't know.
01:17I don't know.
01:27I don't know.
01:35I don't know.
01:38I don't know.
01:41I don't know.
01:44If I was a director of Monsoon Wedding,
01:51I think it was a lot of work.
01:54It was a beach road and it was a very iconic dialogue and I tried to convince the director
02:04that it will be better than Sonny Sir, but he didn't believe it.
02:07Sonny Sir asked, you don't have any interest in your famous dialogue, I am saying.
02:13I said, why is it going to happen?
02:14You say it with your thoughts.
02:18So, I made it my own and I did not take any pressure that it has to match Sonny Sir,
02:26or that I have to do something more or less.
02:30There was no calculation.
02:34Apart from the shooting scene, how did Sonny Sir sit with him?
02:39He is very introverted.
02:46I am introverted and I am in an industry where we have to face the camera and people think
02:54that all actors must be very extroverted.
02:57But I really enjoyed my interactions with him because even in his silence, he was extremely warm.
03:10He made everybody so comfortable around him.
03:17So, I never really felt like, I felt in the presence of someone who is extremely generous.
03:25And, jab bate bhi karte the, it was, you know, sometime we would talk and you know, it was, it
03:31was so,
03:31ah, he is like a proper gentleman, ah, jo aaj kal bohat kam dikne ko milte hai.
03:38So, it was really lovely.
03:40We have heard that Akshay Khanna has a lot of talk about it, it's a lot of talk about it.
03:46Yes, and his character was also like this, so, you know, and every actor's process is different.
03:52Some actors are the two seconds before the action, jokes crack, and then they switch, it helps them.
04:01You know, and there are some actors who are very quiet before the action, they are really thinking, preparing,
04:07and, and Akshay came on to set with that energy of the character and stayed in that.
04:14So, I never saw him outside that energy.
04:18If you shoot with senior actors and performers, do you have more preparation for him?
04:27No, I don't want to become a person.
04:29You will see people's designations and preparation.
04:35My work means, this is my passion.
04:42So, I am working with a big actor, so I will do more preparation.
04:48And a actor who is now in the industry, I will do it with him.
04:53I will do it with my passion.
05:02And I think what is better, in our industry, if you say big, small, senior, junior, I think it is
05:13better to say someone with more experience and someone with less experience.
05:18But we all have to start somewhere, right?
05:22Ma'am, Mr. 5, 6 years ago, there was a debate on OTT and Theatre.
05:27So, what do you think about OTT and Theatre?
05:29What do you think about OTT and Theatre?
05:30I don't have to take part in the debate.
05:34My actors, who have their talent, their culture, have a chance to show their talent in OTT platforms.
05:45There are very few chances for people like us, at least back in the day.
05:52And we have a career today because of OTT platforms.
05:57So, I don't want to get into a debate which is talking about what is this killing OTT is killing
06:03cinema.
06:05But, when I was at Monsoon Wedding, the world became digital.
06:10Monsoon Wedding was shot on the film, on the film roll, 35mm.
06:14So, then, everyone said that we will leave the film, we will be able to do digital.
06:21We will be able to do the work.
06:22Cinema is dead.
06:23So, I mean, it was starting to be like, cinema is dead.
06:28Now, you are talking about OTT, cinema is dead.
06:30We are talking about the story of the story.
06:36So, I don't want to participate in the debate.
07:05I don't want to participate in the debate.
07:08It needs a song.
07:09Now, we don't compose a new song in a marriage.
07:14The only time it is the hits that people listen to their marriage.
07:21But, we do not do that.
07:23A independent filmmaker, whose budget is reduced, cannot afford such a song.
07:28can afford it. So, one, like you said, this film is in the 70s. In the 70s, in the radio
07:38this song is more than played. In the 80s, this song is played. In the 90s, in the 90s
07:42we were listening to these songs. But, a young filmmaker, who has a big studio back or
07:49a big budget, who can buy one song for 50,000,000, he can't get the flavor of that time,
07:55unless
07:56it's an original composition. So, my thing is, yes, please, at least outside of India,
08:03if a song is already 50 or 60 years old, then you can use it royalty free. You know, you
08:09can use it. And, and I think that's so powerful because these songs are part of a popular culture
08:16of a particular time, if it can have a call back in a film and add that richness, add that
08:23layer. So, yes, I hope it comes back because we value that art, which we are doing, which
08:45is a very interdisciplinary art. So, if people could not always be motivated by money.
09:15So, I hope that generosity comes in. And we can, because we have a lot of different ways,
09:23can bring it alive. So, I hope that generosity comes in. And we can, because we have a lot of
09:30things, because songs can be used in, you know, in such creative ways that can completely
09:35create new meanings, and, and can be very exciting.
10:00Actually, this is a question.
10:02Actually, this is a question. How many people do not ask that there are so many films
10:06that come in?
10:07With male heroes.
10:08Why do not work in the box office? I think my knowledge is very little, sir. But, there
10:22are many films which are headlined by men that have not worked at all in the box office. And
10:27there are many films by Kangana, Tapsi, Vidya, Alia that have worked in the box office. And I'm
10:34just giving a few names, because you have mentioned these names. But why is it that,
10:40if a woman's film, which is the headline, doesn't work, they get so much pressure. Why?
10:46Because there are so many flops when male actors give them, they don't have to ask them.
10:51Why do we ask this once again, that you are a female director?
10:57Is a director enough? You are a lead actress. This is a language.
11:26It is very tiring.
11:27We are a population of 50% of this country. So, we are like exotic animals, just three,
11:37four women in this world. So, if their films flopped up, it doesn't work. It doesn't work. It's
12:02like this has to change.
12:05It doesn't work.
12:33Instead of asking that OTT platforms have allowed for a lot of women's stories because it was so
12:42Inequal before
12:44आप कितने देर
12:46आप कि अगर बच्ची हो या बहन हो आप कितने देर
12:50कितने साल तक उनको ये convince करते रहेंगे कि हाँ
12:55ये आप second class citizen हो
12:59हाँ आप अभी काम कर रहे हो आप vote कर सकते हो
13:03आपका दिमाग है आप पैसे कमा सकते हो
13:06बट आप second class citizen हो
13:07तो हम आपको ये प्रश्ण पूछते ही रहेंगे
13:10कि women centric films जब flop होती है
13:13तो उसका responsibility किसका है
13:15filmmaker पे है
13:18audience पे है
13:20actor पे है
13:21पट ये प्रश्ण तब भी उठाय जाने चाहिए
13:24जब actors flop देते हैं
13:26and they happen to be male actors
13:29इसका मतलब ये नहीं है
13:30कि we continue to make stories only about men
13:37that is not a world I want to grow up in
13:40and many actresses
13:42and many filmmakers have worked really hard
13:46to make films in which both genders are represented
13:50in a way that is nuanced, complex and true to life
13:57you know
13:58Mansoor wedding में रांगपूर भी थे
14:01और आजकर वेडिंग आजकर वो नेक्रिक्स के शो में
14:05अपने टेंपूर और काइक्स को रेगर काफी न्यूज में
14:07तो उस वक्त कैसा था उनके साथ आपका performance
14:13पच्छिस साल पहली की बात कर रहे हैं
14:16बहुत अच्छा था
14:17वो बहुत ही
14:20सेट पे सब के साथ मिलजुल के काम कर रहे थे
14:23आप सेट वसेट के वरी इक्षान सेट
14:25मैं, वेमें, मेल अक्टर्स, फीमेल अक्टर्स
14:29सब को एकी दर्जे में देखा गया था
14:31Whether it's Naseer or Shefali, like Naseer gave us a lot of incredible hits, so has Shefali and so has
14:41Ram, so has Kulbhushan Ji.
14:45They were very good actors in that film and Ram was another wonderful actor on that set.
14:53But you have to ask me this question, I really don't know, because if you're talking about me today, you
14:59don't have to give me anything.
15:02The film is a headline, it's a flop, so you have to ask me about it.
15:08When a male actor is misbehaved, you have to ask me the question of this responsibility, how do men take
15:17responsibility?
15:22Why do we have to ask them?
15:25Why do we have to ask them?
15:25Glass is going to be on the hands of us, so we have to do it.
15:30Guns will be on the hands of us, so we have to do it.
15:33Why?
15:34But I understand that you have to ask me, because you have seen so many interviews, which I have asked
15:39them,
15:48and try and look at us in a different way, and ask us different questions, because if you do that,
15:54your daughter, your sister will grow up in a nicer world, you know.
15:58I am very, very thankful for anyone who has watched my work, and for all those people who in the
16:18last 25 years
16:19have supported me, whether silently, through messages, through encouraging comments.
16:27It means a lot to have your support in this journey, and I hope I can continue to work in
16:36a way that is sincere,
16:38and can improve so that I can continue to deserve the support that you have given me.
