Mumbai, Maharashtra: In an exclusive conversation with IANS, actors Raghubir Yadav, Fatima Sana Shaikh and Zoya Hussain opened up about their upcoming crime thriller courtroom drama, Hunkkaar: The Roar. The actors spoke about their characters and the journey of the show, with Raghubir Yadav revealing how he is stepping into such a role for the first time and still feels nervous despite his vast experience. He also shared that he is an accidental actor who always had an affinity towards music.Fatima Sana Shaikh talked about playing a cop in the series, recollected her memories as a child actor in Chachi 420, and shared her thoughts on how humans can never achieve idealism. Zoya Hussain spoke about being on the wrong side of morals in the show and addressed the state of women's safety across the world, highlighting how society still fails to ensure the well-being of women even in 2026.Later in the conversation, Raghubir Yadav spoke about his favourite character from his career so far, how he approaches a character musically, and why he believes an actor should first step into the kitchen to explore characters. Fatima also spoke about completing 30 years since she started as a child artist in Chachi 420 and shared her experience of working on the film.
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00:00Hello everyone, welcome to INS and congratulations for Hunkar that's about to release on the 25th of September.
00:04My first question is open to all.
00:06If you could help me walk through your characters, the world that they come from
00:11and their effect on the premise of the show in the longer run.
00:15Anyone can take the lead.
00:16No, no, you will tell me.
00:17So, this is Hunkar and Kirdar.
00:21They are both in the car.
00:25So, Kirdar is the fact that I had no role in this way.
00:29It was a very difficult situation for me because my character was very difficult.
00:36It was my opinion, my opinion, and my opinion.
00:41So, it was very difficult.
00:43I said that it wasn't just happened.
00:46It took a little bit of time and then it was just made it.
00:48I said, brother, do it because you don't have to go through the environment.
00:52You don't have to go through the environment.
00:54You don't have to live this life.
00:56You will see it a little bit.
00:59And this is the first thing I learned that it is a big shame.
01:02Kirdar is not going to be easy to do.
01:05Because one thing,
01:10I was a fun to break and I was a fun to break.
01:13And I was a fun to break.
01:17I saw many injuries and injuries and pain.
01:24There was some pain and pain,
01:27and I was just running out of pocket.
01:28And I am scared from hell.
01:32And I was scared every day.
01:33What has I been trying to bury this life?
01:37That's so much the pain.
01:39I'm tired of the life.
01:42I'm so tired and I have thrown them out.
01:46It was an experience, it was an experience for me.
01:51And for you, Fatima?
01:52No, there is a very big story.
01:55There is a very important story.
01:58Especially today, it is very relevant.
01:59We are listening to the cases today.
02:02There was something that happened.
02:04By that, there is a very important story.
02:08My character is a police officer.
02:11He is fighting for truth.
02:12He is fighting for truth.
02:14And in his journey, it was an interesting journey.
02:20But more than that, there were so many actors.
02:23Raghuji, Zoya, Zeeshan,
02:27even the makers, Anit.
02:29Sorry, Anit is an actor.
02:30But the makers, Karan and Nitya, all of them coming together.
02:33It was very interesting and fun.
02:37And for you, Zoya, I heard one of your earlier interviews.
02:39You said that your character is an outsider in the setup of the show.
02:43If you could help me walk through that, why did you say that?
02:45I said she is an outsider because she is a part of this world.
02:50But she is not on the right side of things.
02:53Yet, she is not actively involved in anything.
02:56But as the kind of series unfolds and you see more of her,
03:01that's when you kind of realize what she is up to.
03:04So, as an actor on set and as a character,
03:09I was not an outsider, I was a bystander.
03:11And so, it was...
03:15I mean, I had a lot of questions as to, you know,
03:18why do people become like her?
03:20Why do people conduct themselves like her?
03:22So, that's kind of what the journey of this character also was for me,
03:25to kind of answer those questions.
03:27And that's who she is in this world.
03:30Okay, okay.
03:31And sir, you have said that you have to do a lot of pressure.
03:36You have to become so nervous.
03:37You do have to be exact experience as a person.
03:40And that's why you have to be very nervous.
03:41And you have to be nervous, despite a lot of experience.
03:43Yes, I see.
03:44The first day was the problem that I had a bit of a job.
03:49No matter what, I know you did not know,
03:54but at this time it kind of all could work for me.
03:56So, that is what it is, there is a doubt, because I am going to get into it from my
04:04faith or not,
04:06because there are many things that come from you to know the character,
04:12because my life is completely different, but there are many things that come from you,
04:19that you don't care about it, that you say that I will do it and that I will make it
04:23like this,
04:23so that I must do it and all I must do it.
04:27Whether I have done it again and I have done it, then I'm going to try and do it again,
04:33that I can replace it by changing what I have done.
04:36So, that has always been the beauty of the power of that power, and it has also been useful.
04:44That is our peace.
04:47That is not just our peace.
04:48Otherwise, we are going to ask ourselves to pray and bring our prayer,
04:49If you do it, then you don't have to enjoy it.
04:51A little bit of the soul and the soul that you have to do it.
04:57It's just that it's a game.
04:59It's the pleasure that the actor can take.
05:01So, I just want to keep the pleasure of taking it.
05:04And Fatima, I will extend this a little bit.
05:07Pankaj Tripathi Sir said that the actor is also co-author of a script.
05:11Because, given the source material, you fill in the colors from your side.
05:15Correct.
05:16Now, you are playing a cop.
05:18Beyond the text book, what was given to you as a source material?
05:21What are some adaptations of you?
05:22Take some back story if you thought of something.
05:25When I came back, there was no back story of the character.
05:29He was still investigating.
05:32And usually, my readings and discussions,
05:36I always give my ideas.
05:39And of course, when you have freedom in the set,
05:41what can you do in the game?
05:43Is there freedom or not?
05:44Some makers don't give freedom.
05:46Some makers are very clear.
05:47There are no wrong things.
05:48Some makers are very clear.
05:50I just need this.
05:51So, the newness of the restriction,
05:54that is also a fun thing.
05:56And when there is freedom, there is a different thing.
05:58So, we have worked on the backstory.
06:01There was openness.
06:02There were a lot of collaborative in the process.
06:05So, there is also something interesting that it seems to be interesting.
06:09Okay.
06:10And Zoya, for you, you said that this character is not on the right side of the things.
06:15As an actor, how important it is for you to not judge the characters that you are playing or trying
06:19your hands on?
06:21I mean, whether you judge the person or not, when you are finally diving into the skin of the character,
06:28you can't.
06:28Because it will affect the way you play it.
06:31It won't have the same amount of conviction, the same amount of relatability or belief.
06:37And, yeah, at the end of the day, you want people to connect with whatever you are doing.
06:42Whether they disagree with it or not, or whether you disagree with it or not.
06:47That's a whole other matter.
06:48But you still want people to be able to connect with something.
06:51Yeah.
06:51And, yeah, so I think that's why it's important to not judge.
06:55Okay.
06:56And when you are fully there in the character,
06:59the character's mindset,
07:01after that, when it is cut,
07:02is it how easy or difficult it is for you to step out of that emotion or that mindset of
07:07the character?
07:09For me, on this particular project,
07:12it was not difficult to switch on and off.
07:16It was far easier for me at least than it was for them because I didn't
07:20didn't have the same amount of responsibility or baggage or whatever, right?
07:26They had a lot more to do than I did.
07:27So on this particular project, it was not so difficult.
07:31Otherwise, it, again, it just depends on the intensity of the role,
07:35the intensity of your day.
07:36Sometimes your character is very heavy.
07:38But if your day is light, it's fine.
07:40So it's really subjective.
07:43And, sir, with regards to your character and the way you have kind of shaped up your filmography,
07:50you know, very many characters over 30, 35, 40 years.
07:53If you want to pinpoint your favorite characters in so many years, who will you live in such a few
07:57years?
07:57All of those are the favorites.
08:01What are you going to play on?
08:04No.
08:05There are many difficulties.
08:05There are many difficulties.
08:08I think that in the first film, it was difficult to say that it was my first film.
08:12So I would like to tell you about the language of the theatre.
08:20So, when I was in the first film, the film is different and the theatre is different, different worlds.
08:27I have found that you can speak a little bit in the theatre, but you can speak a little bit
08:34in the camera.
08:35I have found that you can speak a little bit in the background, but you can speak a little bit
08:43in the background.
08:44I have written it in Salaam Bombay and I have done it in 1992.
08:53I have done it in 2002, but I have not been satisfied with it today, especially in the films.
09:04Why?
09:05It is said that it is a big part of the theatre.
09:11We have a chance to improve the theatre in the theatre.
09:22It is a big part of the theatre.
09:25It is a big part of the theatre.
09:27I can't believe it is a big part of the theatre, but it is not even possible.
09:36In addition to this, there is just a task, and it is a task that was made, to get a
09:42position.
09:45It doesn't come to be right.
09:50Look, the Manzil Manzil has never been made.
09:52I had a great time to make a path, to make a path, to make a path, to make a
09:57path, to make a path.
09:59And years ago, I saw your interview. You were probably doing a narration of Heer Ranja or Laila Majnu.
10:05And then you switched into singing and then it went into more of a karma.
10:12Do you think musically?
10:15I think musically.
10:17I think it's easy to think and to catch the artist.
10:21Explain it a little bit.
10:24For example, the emotions of music come so quickly.
10:33And the way that you have a mood, the way that you are enjoying your life, the way that you
10:39are happy,
10:41the way that music comes to your own.
10:45And that's why you should listen to it.
10:46So, I was actually in my relationship with music.
10:50And my acting was very early.
10:51That's why I was doing it.
10:53And I saw that the attention of the actor is so that you have to learn everything.
11:01You should come.
11:03So, I started to enjoy music.
11:07There are other things.
11:09In the whole society, the whole society, there is no work that the actor should not come.
11:14So, that's why I didn't have a specialization in acting.
11:20I did a stage craft.
11:22And Mr. Abrahim Alkaji said to me, what do you want to do?
11:26So, I said, I want to teach everything.
11:28So, he came to me.
11:29So, that's why I did so much work.
11:31That's why I had a workshop in my house.
11:33I used to do something.
11:34I used to do something.
11:35I used to do something.
11:35I used to do something.
11:36I used to do something.
11:39So, this's what and I used to do.
11:41And, I used to do something very important to my actor.
11:44And, first and then, to play as a client in a игра.
11:47Just make a kitchen for breakfast.
11:49Now, theist or crust, you can make a meal.
11:54But, all of which you can do, are you always acting like this?
11:59You will see some people who are making it.
12:04If you are making it in the morning or in the morning,
12:07you will see some people who are making it in the morning.
12:08When I get a character, I will go back to the house.
12:13No one will come back to you.
12:15It is your world, you are making it in the morning,
12:18and you are making it in the morning.
12:21This is the way I am enjoying these things.
12:27This is the reason that something has been studied,
12:32that your life is so small.
12:34I am telling you.
12:36For this reason, you have to live on the ground.
12:39If you go up to four or five stairs,
12:41you will be able to learn.
12:44You will be able to live on the ground,
12:46and you will be able to learn.
12:47That is it.
12:49Fatima, I think this will be 30th year in 2027 for you,
12:53to be working in the industry.
12:55Counting as a child artist.
12:56420.
12:58One of my most favourite films.
13:00Your work, Kamala San sir.
13:02It is an iconic film.
13:05Benchmark, if I may say so, for Hindi cinema.
13:07If you could share your fondest memories of working on that film,
13:09as a child artist.
13:12That must be fun.
13:13What memory of a child?
13:15Give a child a lollipop.
13:16Keep happy.
13:17We are happy.
13:18The process is not happening.
13:20We are happy.
13:21We are happy.
13:22You know how it is.
13:23What happens when children are honest?
13:26We have to unlearn ourselves.
13:28We have to think so much.
13:29We have to plan and plan.
13:31We do not work.
13:32So, the child is in the moment.
13:35So, it was fun for me.
13:37Five-star hotel.
13:39We were flying on a plane.
13:40It was good food.
13:42It was good for me.
13:43It said that, you know, to handle kids, child actors, it's very difficult.
13:47Because their mood is very quickly.
13:48That's what we know.
13:49We don't remember.
13:52Yeah.
13:53Okay.
13:53And Zoya, coming to you.
13:55For a title like Hunkar.
13:57And then, we see what's happening with women in the society.
14:00Now, this is the thing.
14:02In 2026, if we can't ensure the safety of our women as a society,
14:08where do you think we have gone wrong collectively as a society?
14:11So many places we have gone wrong, yeah.
14:13This is the state of women across the world.
14:15In our country, so definitely.
14:17But in every country in the world, there is a…
14:19I mean, where can you be like, oh, this is a great place for women.
14:22This is a great work space for women.
14:24It's in all sectors, across professions, across countries, across classes.
14:30I mean, it's ridiculous that in the last 50, 60, 70, 100 years,
14:37things have changed in terms of the agency that women have,
14:41the opportunities that women are getting are better.
14:43But it's not an ideal situation anywhere.
14:47So, where have we gone wrong?
14:49I mean, there's so many things to say for that.
14:52Because if we sit and analyze it, I mean, it's such an immense topic.
14:59Yeah.
14:59That where do you start?
15:00Where do you stop?
15:01So, I think that people across sectors that are in positions of power and authority,
15:08especially whether it's our, you know, defenses to our police, our politicians, our employers.
15:16It's not…
15:17The responsibility is with anybody that is in a position of power to ensure somebody's safety.
15:23Yeah.
15:24Otherwise, I mean, where do you start?
15:25That's the whole debate right now, right?
15:28And that's why it's so frustrating for all of us.
15:30That, yeah, nothing has changed.
15:32Yeah.
15:32Like, it's mind blowing.
15:35Okay.
15:35And my last question is for all three of you.
15:38Fatima, I heard one of your earlier answers that you said that humans inherently are bad people.
15:43They are destructive in that sense.
15:45Now, she spoke about reaching an ideal situation.
15:47I want all three of your inputs.
15:49Given the human nature to destroy things or, you know, to mess up things in a way, let's say, do
15:55you think an ideal situation can ever be reached out?
15:57Is it possible?
15:58Is it possible?
15:59Yeah.
16:02It's possible.
16:02It will never happen.
16:03The world doesn't work.
16:05It's difficult.
16:05It's difficult.
16:07It's difficult.
16:07It's difficult.
16:07So, wherever there's wrong, there's good, there's good, there's bad.
16:13Yes, there's bad.
16:15So, it's easy to sit here to say that an idealist is nice.
16:19So, the concept is nice, but it's not reality.
16:22Okay.
16:22Perfect.
16:23So, with that, we have reached the end of this conversation.
16:24Kuch Ise Vajungo, sir.
16:26Actually, actually, maholi bada khuraafati sa mahol hai.
16:30To us mein bada muskil hai aap.
16:33Gunjaish nahi bach ti?
16:34Gunjaishi nahi bach ti?
16:35Gunjaishi nahi.
16:35Kewonko pura faza mein khuraafat lagi hui.
16:39Woh kisi tarf se ho.
16:40Lekin woh ap us mein kaisai aapne aap ko bachayenge ya auron ko bachayenge.
16:45Aap bachayenge, tu bighar jago.
16:46Aap bachayenge, tu bachayenge, tu bachayenge, tu bachayenge, tu bachayenge.
16:51Perfect. So, on that note, thank you so much.
16:53Thank you so much.