00:00Do you work for money?
00:05Generally, I don't work for money.
00:07Money is a by-product, fame is a by-product,
00:10awards, by-product.
00:12Yes, I fought with every director,
00:15but that is due to my work.
00:18There is no personal revelry.
00:20In politics, if I join some party,
00:23then whoever, party member, makes whatever mistake,
00:26I'll be answerable to that.
00:27Profession keeps me so much happy.
00:30So, I don't think about my personal problems.
00:32You must be having a lot of problems.
00:34I'm having everybody else.
00:35A man is going to the gate,
00:40he's hiding himself.
00:44Although he's spastic,
00:46he doesn't doubt about it.
00:48So, for him,
00:51he's an actor, director.
00:56He turns into criminal.
01:00But still, that actor is chasing him.
01:03So, it's not possible for him to forget that faculty.
01:06So, even when he's criminal,
01:09he keeps on acting.
01:10He's doing different roles.
01:12That kind of character I'm playing.
01:14Nicely conceived by Chandra.
01:17So, how do you feel?
01:18How do you feel?
01:20See, I think that after Prahar,
01:24it was directed by me.
01:25I liked that film most,
01:26because whatever bad or good,
01:28I was responsible for that.
01:30But I think after that,
01:31this is the best role I got till today.
01:34Very nice.
01:35I'm very happy.
01:37Mukul, Madhuri, Ramya,
01:39all of them, they are excelling.
01:40Even other characters like Hemu Adhikari,
01:44who is playing my father.
01:46Tremendous.
01:47Everybody is contributing so much.
01:49What is your purpose to Enchandra as director?
01:52You always say the director is very important for you.
01:54No, no.
01:55He...
01:56He is a nice director.
01:58He is...
01:58Really, he is a great director.
02:00Unfortunately, in between,
02:02I don't know what happened to him,
02:03and he went into wrong films.
02:07But basically, he's a very nice director.
02:09And...
02:10Fortunately, what happens that...
02:13Since last very long, we are together.
02:16Association is...
02:23Association is...
02:24Last, say about 20, 25 years.
02:29And fortunately, we came from same class.
02:34We are from lower middle class.
02:36So we can communicate with each other easily.
02:43She is also from...
02:44Not from that lower middle class,
02:46but she is middle class girl.
02:47So it's...
02:48So what?
02:50Madhuri is good actress.
02:51Okay, so what?
02:53She should.
02:53She should give good performance.
02:55Otherwise, she will not survive.
02:58And she is giving.
02:59Ramya, she did a tremendous job.
03:01Madhuri...
03:04She proved before.
03:07It's again, good role for Madhuri.
03:10It's not that one...
03:11This role or this role or this role.
03:13This is...
03:14Everybody is having...
03:16Substantial meat and...
03:17Let's see that what happens.
03:19But I think that this film will do something.
03:23Basically, plot is different.
03:26He conceived it in a different way.
03:29He is shooting it in a different way.
03:32Let's see now.
03:34Otherwise, everybody...
03:35Including me, we say that this is different.
03:37And eventually, people go to theatre and they find...
03:40No, it's the same thing.
03:42So it should not happen.
03:43But I don't think.
03:44I'll be the last person to praise anybody.
03:49Tell us now, after Prahar,
03:52everybody is waiting for you to direct another film.
03:55So are there any plans?
03:57Most probably, I'm going to direct one film.
04:01Right now, I'm writing it.
04:04And as it is, I interfere so much in my...
04:08Director's job.
04:09So I'm happy.
04:11I don't feel that I'm not directing.
04:17Most probably.
04:19But if I'm not acting, I'll be happy.
04:22Then it will be easier.
04:23When you are acting, then...
04:26You have to depend on somebody.
04:28Then you need associate.
04:30I may ask Chandra to assist me in that film.
04:33And he will.
04:35I don't think that he's having any problem for that.
04:37Because I'm assisting him in this film.
04:40So who are the actors that you decided on?
04:43That is not yet decided.
04:46Let the script get completed.
04:49Otherwise, it's not possible for me to.
04:51So who are the actors, your first stars,
04:53were the most comfortable?
04:54Who enjoy them?
04:55Madhuri Dimple.
04:58Jackie.
05:00And now Mukul.
05:03Such a nice...
05:05And...
05:05Hardworking.
05:06And he's really nice actor.
05:08I'm happy.
05:09I'm happy.
05:10I'm not working with these other actors.
05:13But...
05:14With Mukul, really I am happy.
05:16He's nice.
05:17And day by day, he's learning.
05:20He's giving such a nice performance.
05:23Nice and difficult scene.
05:25And Chandra, fortunately,
05:27he conceives in a different way.
05:29It's not a regular way of shooting.
05:33It's nice.
05:33Good.
05:35So, let us...
05:36How many films are your films?
05:38You are really interested in the film.
05:41If I do any film,
05:43I think that it's good.
05:44After watching,
05:45I can't tell you how it's not.
05:46This is the only thing.
05:47This is the only thing.
05:48This is the only thing.
05:49This is the only thing.
05:50This is the only thing.
05:51I think Jackie may get National Award for that.
05:55Such a nice performance.
05:56Manisha, she gave it a tremendous performance.
05:59Ashwini, me.
06:01Partho did a great job in that.
06:03Mustafa is going to get released.
06:05So, dubbing is over.
06:06So, I have forgotten that film.
06:08But still, Yukpurush is in my system.
06:14Then, Wajud.
06:16And after that,
06:17these two films,
06:17Abiyan and Villa No. 300.
06:19And then, most probably after that,
06:21I'll take Gap.
06:22Let's see.
06:23Why do you not take Gap?
06:25So, now I'm aging.
06:28You can see.
06:29So, let me go in that group now.
06:43No, no, no.
06:44Direction.
06:44I may do that film and I may stop.
06:47It's not that.
06:48Sometimes, you feel like.
06:51I do maximum two films a year.
06:56But still, then I get tired after two films.
07:01So, you need to see a lot of things, conceive something, project it in a different way.
07:09Then, it's fun.
07:13Genuinely, I don't work for money.
07:15Money is a by-product.
07:17Fame is a by-product.
07:19Awards, by-product.
07:21Basic product is your work.
07:23And you must feel like working.
07:25Until and unless it's not coming from within, then it's better that not to work.
07:32So, what do you do to recharge your batteries to get you excited?
07:35Just meet people.
07:36Try to understand.
07:37Try to understand their problem.
07:40What kind of situation.
07:41Political, social.
07:44Meet different kind of people.
07:46Read.
07:48Maximum reading.
07:49See nice films.
07:51Go around.
07:52But that is how you can, how you can project.
07:57You should know that what you are projecting.
07:59It's not just your fighting or your giving lectures.
08:05Somewhere, I must change my, it became pattern.
08:10So, now I have to change.
08:13So, let's see that how much I will.
08:16You have so many views and so many things and, you know, you have such a massive view.
08:21You have never thought of politics or addressing attachment.
08:24See, the problem is this.
08:25In politics, if I join some party, then whoever, party member, makes whatever mistake,
08:32I'll be answerable to that.
08:35And I don't want to.
08:36If I am making some mistake, I am answerable.
08:40I'll take punishment.
08:42If I am convicted for that, I don't mind.
08:44But it's my mistake.
08:46But if somebody is making a mistake, I am responsible for that.
08:49It's not possible for me.
08:52What about, like, in most of your films, there's this, you know, anger and this frustration
08:57of the character which comes out.
08:59So, do you personally feel angry about lawyer?
09:01That's how you manage to convey that.
09:03See, fortunately, otherwise, I would have got mad.
09:05I'm having such a great media.
09:07Fortunately, it's my profession and hobby.
09:10So, when I'm shooting, I don't feel that I'm working.
09:16It's nice.
09:17It's fun.
09:17Great.
09:19But all the time, I'm playing some different character when I'm working.
09:24So, then, I'm not nana particular.
09:27So, when I'm having my personal problems and suffocations, separation, whatever.
09:35But that is nana's problem.
09:36That is not those characters' problem.
09:39So, when I go away from nana, so these characters helps me to keep me happy, you know, because
09:44I'm living their problems.
09:46So, sometimes, my profession keeps me so much happy.
09:53So, I don't think about my personal problems.
09:56You must be having a lot of problems.
09:57I'm having everybody.
09:59But then, it's nice that my profession gives me so much solace, you know, and happiness,
10:04that at least, I see.
10:11Like that.
10:11So, tell us about theatre.
10:13What happened?
10:14I have stopped acting there now on stage.
10:20I'm missing it.
10:23But I missed.
10:25I wanted to play Othello.
10:28Let's see whether I can do it or not.
10:31Is there some movie character that you've always wanted to play and you've never played?
10:36No, I wanted to play Bhagat Singh, but now my age will not permit me.
10:45That is the only character.
10:48And now, when you've seen your character, which character you've always wanted to play?
10:52I mean, it's like this.
10:54Which child feels good.
10:55Everywhere, I try to excel myself.
10:58My director, my writers, they helped me so much.
11:03It's not possible for me to say that I did it because it happened.
11:06And in the process, fortunately, I did...
11:10This is my third film with Chandra.
11:12I did three films with Partho, two films with Mehul, one with Vinod Chopra, and Shachilan Nayar.
11:22But when I'm working with Chandra, it's nice, it's coming from...
11:28They're not typical bookish kind of thing, you know.
11:31They're more colloquial.
11:34It's nice, it's good.
11:36But it's not possible for me to say, specify it that this is what I like and this...
11:42Yes, I fought with every director.
11:47But that is due to my work.
11:50There is no personal rivalry.
11:54It happens.
11:55It doesn't make any difference.
11:56Fortunately, we are from...
11:57All of us, we are from same age group.
12:00So, sometimes somebody...
12:03He bashed me, then I bashed him.
12:06So, it's okay.
12:07But it's for betterment of the job, then it's okay.
12:17I won't say there is no favorite director.
12:20Once, I wanted to work with Satyajit Ray.
12:24Unfortunately, I can...
12:28When I came to know in his personal diary, he wrote that I want to work with Nana Bhattagar.
12:32I think that it was the biggest award I got.
12:40I don't film.
12:41I'm most probably...
12:42I may do one Bengali film with Tapan Sina.
12:45It's in a one of them.
12:49Where do you see yourself 10 years from?
12:51Pardon?
12:52Where do you see yourself 10 years from?
12:53Maybe there, I don't know.
12:57I don't know.
12:58I don't think about tomorrow or...
13:00Yesterday, yes.
13:01I don't want to forget yesterday.
13:03I'm not going to forget my past.
13:05It will be there.
13:07But I think about today.
13:10This moment is important.
13:12I have forgotten what I was doing there one hour before.
13:18When I'm talking to you, I'm talking to you.
13:22This moment is important.
13:23I don't know what is going to happen next moment.
