Mumbai, Maharashtra: During an exclusive interview, actress Esha Deol and actor Amit Sadh opened up about their upcoming film Prataap and their respective characters. Amit Sadh also spoke about how the Mumbai Police often face public criticism during protests, terror attacks and celebrity-related incidents. Esha Deol then addressed the trolling faced by Jaya Bachchan and Hema Malini, as well as South Indian actors being targeted over their accents. She also became emotional while reflecting on Dharmendra’s first death anniversary. Additionally, Esha spoke about her desire to retain her iconic ‘Dhoom girl’ image while choosing substantial roles over conventional, larger-than-life Bollywood films.
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00:00So, welcome Aisha and Amit Chawainas. It's an absolute pleasure to have you with us on board today.
00:05So, unfortunately I couldn't attend the trailer launch, but I saw the trailer while coming.
00:11That's a coming moment.
00:12And I won't say it just because I have got good answers to you.
00:16But genuinely, it looks very, very intriguing.
00:20And something that we have attracted a few days later on in the movie theaters.
00:25Some substance in the entire content.
00:28So, firstly, congratulations on that.
00:31Thank you so much.
00:33Amit, this question is for you.
00:35That, when this role offered you, what was the first thought that occurred on your mind?
00:42And, it's not that this content, however different, we haven't seen it yet.
00:47There are so many actors who have approached it on our own way.
00:52So, what made you feel that this is going to be a little different from the others?
00:58Actually, this is my life coach.
01:05You sure?
01:07You're already struggling.
01:10You're already struggling.
01:15And we always say honestly speaking, but that's the only way to speak, so I will skip that.
01:29I feel a very silly feeling at this time.
01:32Actually, when I offered this role, I finished 3 seasons of Breathe.
01:39And I think it was a lapse of personality or judgment.
01:45I told Sachin sir that I didn't want to do a cop.
01:49I've been doing 3 seasons for 7 years.
01:52That was my first reaction.
01:53And at that time, I felt a very silly feeling.
01:55We always tell good things about ourselves.
01:58So I feel like we should know our mistakes.
02:00So that was my first reaction.
02:01I'm not proud of it.
02:04And I was traveling somewhere.
02:06I'm traveling.
02:09So they told me that I will study my script.
02:12So of course, I would like to believe that my principles are intact.
02:16So I said, sir, I will study my script.
02:18And yes, when I studied my script, I saw something different.
02:22I said, Kabir Sawant, I didn't feel like I am repeating myself.
02:28And then we fixed up a time.
02:30Sir gave me a narration.
02:31And I tried to understand his point of view.
02:35What is he showing?
02:36How is he showing?
02:38How is he showing?
02:39How is he showing?
02:40How is he showing?
02:40How is he showing?
02:41And then I was pretty convinced that I was doing a little bit of impatience.
02:50So I came on board.
02:52The way the movie has turned up, I am very fortunate that I am a part of this film.
02:59So I am very fortunate.
03:02I am very fortunate.
03:02I am very lucky.
03:03I am very lucky.
03:04If you have seen a lot of views on the screen in the screen, I am very lucky.
03:10So this is just like something that I personally…
03:12How many years ago?
03:14How many years ago?
03:15They are very lucky.
03:16How many years ago?
03:16How many years ago?
03:17It's not like a back to back.
03:18No, no, no.
03:20That I was doing when I started acting at 18, in my early 20s and all.
03:25I was doing only that.
03:28So, I wanted to understand, not just from your perspective, but we have talked about
03:34top gear actresses' perspective.
03:36So, why do you feel that we take such content, which means it's a lot of substance and not
03:49such a panel, which is very, you know, Bollywood friendly and very melodramatic and very larger
03:57than life and all those.
03:58Because, honestly speaking, it's more sellable.
04:01So, when we talk about that, from your perspective?
04:03See, my perspective is very simple.
04:06I love working.
04:07I enjoy working.
04:09I am the kind of person who needs to keep working for my happiness.
04:15I do it for myself more than anyone else.
04:17And I love the whole melodrama and, you know, that whole side of the industry.
04:26I was, I'm born in it.
04:28Let me put it that way.
04:30And in my career, I've done a lot of that.
04:34And I'm still doing a lot of that.
04:37I'm doing Malamal Weekly too, because that's my core.
04:42That's, that's me.
04:43I'm very filmy.
04:45So, I've, I enjoy doing all that, that I can never take away from me.
04:50At the same time, I'm someone who enjoys watching movies, watching meaningful stories.
04:58And, with age, I think there is a certain maturity that kicks in.
05:03I think mine has come now.
05:06And, this is such a beautiful role of a wife, a mother.
05:12And, it's, it's a role that will inspire women in general.
05:18So, if I am portraying these kind of characters.
05:22Of course, with the male audiences, I have already been, you know, they've enjoyed watching me in glamorous roles and
05:29all.
05:29But sometimes from a woman to woman, you want to connect with the female audience.
05:34You know, you call it the sisterhood.
05:36Yeah.
05:37So, these roles bring out that side of me, which is equally important to me as, as a woman.
05:44To connect with the female audience and give her a message of courage, of strength, of utilizing her true potential
05:54by playing a character like this.
05:57Right, absolutely.
05:58When we talk about your character, right?
06:00Correct.
06:01Beautiful.
06:02This is actually for both of you.
06:03Very well, sir.
06:03When we talk about your character.
06:05So, I mean, this is Mumbai police associate.
06:10We need to talk, this is about real life.
06:12When we think about real life, unfortunately, whenever, I mean, this entire police force, Mumbai or
06:20or in any country, they are the most, I think, they are the most, I think,
06:24they are the most, I think, they give us a lot of schools so that we actually feel very safe
06:28wherever we are.
06:29Right?
06:29But unfortunately, whenever there is any kind of incident in the city, I talk about Mumbai, personally.
06:36Whenever, I won't take any direct names, but I mean, no celebrity attack or protest.
06:40So, what happens is, first of all, if someone receives hatred, it's the police, especially
06:47about Mumbai.
06:48So, we always watch social media videos that something happens, something happens.
06:54The way, Mumbai police, the hatred and the dweish, they are to go through, I feel it is
07:00extremely sad.
07:02So, since you are playing the role, I really want to understand your perspective and how fair
07:07do you think?
07:08What is sad?
07:09This is the irony of life.
07:11And police force is the first line of defense.
07:15You know, like on the border, BSF, ITBP, FORGE, Brigade.
07:20We get to know about that, you know, VSM, PVSM, you know, shortage, chakras are getting
07:28in special forces.
07:29You know, they just give you a gallantry, it's not even advertised outside.
07:36See, I will talk, coming back to the film, there's a duality in the functioning, in the
07:46relationship of police and community, police city, police country.
07:52And it's everywhere.
07:55Everywhere in the world.
07:55It's just not in India.
07:58And this is something which they have to face the brunt of.
08:01You know, because they have to run the law and order.
08:03They are not on the border.
08:05They have done the law and order and they are the first breach.
08:07They are the first wall between you and anything that happens.
08:10Whether it is 26-11, whether it is the incidents you are talking about, whether it is the floods,
08:18the Mumbai floods, you know, and they know it.
08:22You know, and I have had uncles, I still know a lot of, you know, police personnel.
08:34So instead of actually focusing on that, I actually salute them.
08:37You know, like they all know that they are in such a double-edged toward job, but they
08:41still go.
08:42And I think where is the police?
08:44The police, other than being the, you know, first line of law and order, police takes orders
08:51from seniors.
08:53Police has to take orders from, you know, and their seniors have to take orders from politicians.
09:00So, it's like, you know, they have to take orders.
09:03And what are the orders at that time, or city, or city, or state, or country?
09:11They have to take action.
09:12At that time, morality, they don't have the, like, you know, when you are on the border,
09:17you don't have the morality of yourself.
09:18You have the order.
09:19And your purpose is your purpose.
09:22The purpose of the border is that you have to keep the rules.
09:26You know.
09:27So, police, my heart goes out to police.
09:30And you are very well said, very well said, that, you know, they are, you know, they transfer
09:35between being villains and heroes too quickly.
09:39That's the sad part.
09:40And for me, for this, just for this reason, I want to salute the Indian police.
09:43That despite of this, you know, the way they maintain law and order.
09:48You have to stand out in 5 minutes and see what will happen in the pollution.
09:51But they are standing every day.
09:53And Maharashtra police, Bombay police, they, the sense of humor they have.
10:00And if you talk to me with love, sir, you know, you're late, this is wrong.
10:05This is wrong.
10:06Okay, don't do this.
10:08Which film is going to shoot?
10:09And they teach you.
10:11They tell you.
10:12You know.
10:12And so, connecting this back to, no, it's already started.
10:19But connecting this back to our film.
10:21I think it's, again, a story of an encounter specialist.
10:25Who is decorated.
10:26Who is decorated.
10:29Of course, there is a little burden.
10:30Because there is so much strength and strength.
10:33There is so much work.
10:34There is so much work.
10:35There is so much work.
10:35There is so much work.
10:37There is so much work.
10:41And that's one journey in the film.
10:43And then, secondly, I think, a police officer, a police officer, which is President Award Sammanit,
10:56that is the only one in jail.
10:58So, that is the USP of this film.
11:00That is, you know.
11:01And then, what happens with his family.
11:02What happens with his family?
11:03And what he goes through.
11:06And how his karma and how his past comes to haunt him.
11:09And his realization.
11:12That as a human being, he has a chance to understand.
11:15That he has the actions that he has done today.
11:17And this is all we have.
11:19Forges and forces.
11:21As human beings.
11:22After years and years and years.
11:27And so, I think, I have given a long answer to you.
11:30I want to forgive myself.
11:33No, but.
11:34I mean.
11:35Whenever there is an answer for you guys.
11:37Whenever there is an answer from the heart.
11:39We have a lot of power.
11:40Is it cut cut?
11:41Is it cut cut?
11:41Is it cut cut?
11:42No.
11:42I feel like I want to forgive myself.
11:45Of course.
11:46It's a time.
11:47It's a time.
11:48But.
11:49I feel like if we are interviewing.
11:51And you have such a good question.
11:53And you have such a good question.
11:53And this will go to the audience.
11:55And this will go to the audience.
11:56And we have such a bad, diplomatic, diplomatic,
11:59and we will give a small answer.
12:01So, I don't think that we should do that.
12:05So, I thank you for your time.
12:08What do you want to say to me?
12:10I have learned from them.
12:11I am learning from Asia.
12:12I am learning from Asia.
12:13I am learning from Asia.
12:16So, you know when we talked about police, right?
12:19So, I have learned from Asia.
12:20So, the second time of Asia.
12:20In a period of time, I am learning from Asia.
12:23In lots of podcasts, it is also an actual police.
12:24In social media, I am learning from Asia.
12:25In a period of time, there are many terms.
12:27Fashion police, taqraji police, police police, police police.
12:30Who makes you guys especially on 24 by 7 under scrutiny.
12:35When you are saying you are saying you is being a news or you are saying anything.
12:37If you don't say anything, you don't be a news or you are saying you are not talking.
12:41So this question is for you, I am not going to the passion way, I want to understand that
12:50when I watch social media a lot, there are many senior actors, veteran actors and superstars
12:57who don't know the game of social media, because beyond social media they are already superstars
13:03without even likes and followers and all that. But unfortunately, I would like to take names
13:07like MAM, MAM, MAM, MAM, what happens when interacting with paper razzies take them
13:13or turnality, then judge the superstars without even realizing what level they are
13:20doing. So what happens is a lot of trolling happens, a lot of social media, paper razzies
13:25are already saying that they are only touted to be a good deal. Since you come from that
13:31lineage, how do you take this entire kiasco that is happening in social media?
13:38You know, when a child grows up into a teenager and is not really well behaved, who do you
13:46blame? The parents, that his perverish has not given up to his upbringing. Similarly, I think
13:54with this culture, there are these top heads controlling them and briefing them and telling
14:01them. So they are all being guided. I don't think individually it's the guy who's clicking the picture his fault.
14:11It is the agencies or whatever who's running them who wants to put these on their pages to attract more
14:18likes or traction. So that's where I think the root cause needs to be addressed. I mean, we've been through
14:27this as a family. And I think,
14:32I don't think it's respectful at all. If you ask me honestly, the industry is made of these people, whether
14:41or whether or not, without taking names, they are all the pillars of our industry. You have to respect them.
14:48And they are the ones who've given you cinema to begin with. So give them that respect. And the ones
14:56who enjoy, you know, banter with you, do it with them. What is the harm? Because there is a section
15:02of people who enjoy doing it also. So you stick to your lanes correctly.
15:09You know, I think it's as simple as that.
15:13That's right.
15:14Thank you for the same question.
15:15I would like to say something about encounter specialist.
15:18That's right.
15:21I'm going to say something about the same question.
15:21Yes, of course.
15:21You have to cut your…
15:22Same question.
15:24A lot of, you know, questions are, but now, I don't know who's name.
15:29You're taking the name.
15:30Yes, you're taking the name.
15:33Yes, I'm taking it.
15:48I mean I sound a lot like my mother when I'm saying my dialogue especially in Hindi but
15:57that's me and the person who's taken me on board to play a particular character knows
16:02that. So I think it sounds really sweet and cute. I enjoy hearing people with a little accent.
16:11The answer is that there are 1.5 million people in India and in the world I think 8 billion
16:18people in India. I mean you can't keep you know. So what you're saying is that it's 0.1%
16:32I don't have any issues. Some have like Shri auntie used to have her little accent my
16:40mother and even Urmila I'm a huge fan of Urmila and I loved her little you know the accent that
16:46would come but that's what makes them stand out. True and that's the uniqueness I think
16:51right. Because every actor. Yeah. Because sabka addiction same hai or sab same dikhrehen
16:55to mazha ki hai. Aaj kal hoi chalta hai. Same.
17:00I really want to understand your camera tree abhi itna everyone hai. I really want to understand
17:05while you working how was the excitement and also I mean working with Aisha who was comparatively
17:10with Celia. So how was it overall and also what kind of stories Richie probably tell you about
17:16her parents or any in general ones. Maybe one only ones. One month first. Sorry. I know
17:22yeah. So I think I think we didn't do that. We didn't we left our personal lives outside
17:26but it was really lovely spending time with her on the set and whenever I was in front
17:37of the camera and I'm saying this respectfully I saw Poonam and that credit goes to Aisha for
17:42her acting and the experience that she has and I don't think so. Nobody would have played Poonam
17:49the way she's done. She's brought so much cuteness and she's so endearing as this this wife and
17:59and she has a very very powerful role because she goes through so much from being such a secured wife
18:04who is a dotting mother or dotting you know wife and takes care of everything and then when that goes
18:12away and how she gets time to find herself. So she's done it so cutely so beautifully and I really
18:18really had wonderful time working with her and I have utmost respect for her. She is a very honest
18:25person and you know and if you listen to her very keenly in her sarcasm you will know everything.
18:36Thanks.
18:38One last question before they really get up. So.
18:42No. No. No that's okay. One final question Aisha. Of course I mean we all are here meeting you. I
18:53want to understand
18:55that when you have been selecting roles and selecting projects. You want to discuss this with
19:02Hey mama. We, however he is there with us, we still patient. But while selecting this project, how much did
19:12you
19:12miss him while making this decision? Also it's one month, one year, next year. So I don't want to make
19:18it emotional. If you're not comfortable, you will not.
19:21I mean they've, whenever I sign a project and you know we are in a discussion about movies then I
19:28definitely share with, I've always shared with my parents what I've been doing and doing. So they've always been very
19:34supportive.
19:36Before I wind up, I had one question. This is from somebody who's been dancing on your song. Sing school
19:43and winning prizes.
19:44How cute.
19:44So I wanted to understand, ye chok dhoom girl ka tag hai, right?
19:49You want to answer?
19:52Ye, I really want to know, kye, do you really, after almost more than two decades, do you still enjoy
19:59it or do you want people to sing it?
20:01No, no. I, I, I own it with pride. I, that's my identity. With, you know, the masses, the audiences,
20:11they call me Dilbara and then they'll say Dhoom Girl and that's, that film has given me that.
20:17A lot of actors don't get that. You know, with, when it comes to my mother and all, you know,
20:23there's, she's done so many movies.
20:24But Pasanti aai hai del se or you know, Jai Viru. So I've been, I think fortunate to get that
20:31title in my career and being called the Dilbara or Dhoom Girl, you know.
20:35So I love it. No complaints.
20:37Absolutely. One last question. Agar ik koii take away ho movie se for your fans, doh kya?
20:43Kya take away ho is movie se?
20:45Kya take away ho is movie se?
20:45Yes, I guess if you want, let me put it this way, if you want fans to actually go and
20:49watch the movie, who, who have not seen the trailer, what would that be?
20:54I think see the trailer, the trailer is, says it all and jitne bhi logo ne trailer dekha hai, they
21:01all are saying that, you know, they definitely want to watch the film.
21:05So the trailer is the right pitch which showcases what we have done in the film and what Pratap is
21:12all about.
21:15Yes, same question.
21:17Yes, I think, I say, I say, I say, I tell myself, I, of course, kuch my favorite actors are
21:25in the film, I always go and watch it.
21:28I watch the trailer.
21:31Okay. Other than my favorite directors, actors, of course, they don't watch it.
21:35If the trailer feels good, I want to watch the picture.
21:38So I hope that the trailer feels good.
21:40I will add one thing, that we have made a film of the world.
21:46And it's a film that you can watch with your family.
21:50It's, you know, and it's a cute film. It has its moments.
21:58And I think that we have made it well.
22:01So I want to go and watch it and tell us what we have done and how we have done
22:05it.
22:06I like actors, as artists, as people who make movies, series, we, you know, we share our work, our emotions.
22:15That's our job.
22:16It's nice to have a dialogue where the audience can tell us how we have done, what did they like,
22:21what was missed.
22:22You know, so I'm all for that dialogue. So let's see.
22:28That's all of it from my end. And thank you so much for these answers.
22:32I mean, I know a little uncomfortable. Thank you so much.
22:34No, no. Don't mess.
22:35You were fantastic.
22:37Norval. God bless. Take care.