00:00Well, I didn't anticipate that I will be given this Palkia Award, such and it has come, so that's why
00:10you are here. So I'm trying to come to terms with it yet.
00:16I would dedicate it to the people of Karnataka, and then to thank Mr. Modi, dear Prime Minister, for this,
00:26because he tweeted and announced this particular award, so I'm grateful to him, and grateful to this country which has
00:36provided me this opportunity, and now I dedicate it to the people of Karnataka.
00:42I'm not very excited, one, but I don't know if I have to go to, you know, 22nd to Gujarati,
00:53or if it is sent home, or I'm not, yet it is not confirmed.
00:59No, if that is, if they are, I'm asked to, then I cannot say, you know, when they've conferred such
01:05a big award on me, then I should go to it, take it.
01:11But I'm a very, but I'm very reluctant to, you know, to get out of the house, travel around, and,
01:17you know, not just here, not just for this hour, even otherwise.
01:22Even when I, my, to go abroad, and all my, I send my wife all alone, and she goes alone,
01:29and she comes back, even to UK, US, Europe, and all, she has toured mostly without me.
01:35Yeah, this, this is such an opportunity, is, is, I mean, it's a great, although we are conversing in English,
01:45I have done one film in English, that was Prakash Balavadi produced and directed it.
01:51It was called Stumbled, it won an award also, I think.
01:55But, so, so, you know, this country has so many languages, and so many films are made, and everybody, the
02:01other day I was reading, a newspaper, it said, and people from abroad, they come and said,
02:07the, the, the kind of craze for cinema, which is there in India, in all languages, in all states, is
02:14not there anywhere else in the world, not even in Hollywood.
02:17So, that shows the, the sagacity of our, I mean, how, I mean, how, I mean, our people love entertainment,
02:26this, this, industry of entertainment.
02:29I don't know, I mean, one, one, I have not, I have never been in that culture of expecting an
02:35award.
02:36Reward, yes, anytime, but an award, I was not, I don't know, they, it is at their insistence, not, I
02:44wouldn't say they are my fans, because I,
02:45I don't have, I don't have a, fans associations, you know, but I have, you know, people who have admired
02:52my work, you know,
02:53who have blessed me, supported me in my 50-year career as an actor, and in my, in my, back
03:00in my films also.
03:02So, they wanted me to get Padma Bhushan, and, when Mr. Modi was the only, who asked people to, you
03:11know,
03:12if you have anybody in mind, please recommend them, their name to me.
03:16That is the first time he kind of brought it out into the public.
03:19Otherwise, it was a very special category, you know, it was given to nepotism,
03:23and favoritism, and everything is, was in, there in the, at this award giving also.
03:28But Modi changed it, so, but he, when he sought public participation,
03:34Karanikas participated, and then they said,
03:38we give to Anand, and last year I got this award.
03:47So, I got this award, in the sense that he himself, you know, kind of brought, kind of wrote it
03:56in the, in his, what is it called, text,
04:00or the, that tweet which he, so my friends told me that I said, I must see it for, to
04:07believe it.
04:07I said, unless I see it, believe it, I won't believe it, just, then I saw on the TV, on
04:15other channels in Canada,
04:17on Durdarshan, when I saw that, then I said, no, I don't think they are struggling,
04:22they are making, making, you see, who is struggling?
04:26Nobody is struggling, they are all enjoying, there is such a boom, you know, all the other industries.
04:32Some films may be bombing, that is different, but,
04:35there is no, no, nobody comes here for survival,
04:40anymore.
04:42That's why I said, there is no need for that.
04:45Because Mr. Modi, after he became Prime Minister,
04:47ever since, what is that, Corona,
04:5180 crore people is giving free rice, and,
04:54and wheat, and,
04:57don't you know?
04:58So, for survival,
04:59they don't have to spend on that.
05:01But, they have to work hard, yes.
05:03If you want to be successful,
05:05and in cinema, in the entertainment world,
05:08you have to work very hard, and then,
05:10please the audience.
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