'Dono' Lead Pair Rajveer Deol And Paloma Dhilon Along With Director Avnish Barjatya Sits With Latestly To Discuss What It Takes To Bring Back The Charm Of Old School Romance Meets Modern Age Sensibilities. In This Exclusive Chat The Trio Discuss Their Idea Of Love And Staying Loyal To The Motifs That Are Synonymous With Rajshri Stable.
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00:05 I wanted no hero elements at all.
00:07 I don't remember a Hindi film that's really talked about the closure element of it.
00:11 It's a full stop, someone comes and puts a comma, someone comes and puts a question mark.
00:14 Love is something that is very personal, a relationship I think evolves with time also.
00:21 A person like that in this age, I feel bad for them.
00:24 You said love is such a broad term, you know, you think of romance, you think of love stories like old films which are classified as those love stories.
00:33 Hi, I'm Rajvi and you're watching us on LatestLee.
00:36 Hi, this is Paloma and you're watching us on LatestLee.
00:39 Hi, this is Avneesh and you're watching us on LatestLee.
00:42 Don't Know is the title of the film and if you have watched the trailer, it has those unmissable motifs of Rajshri Productions.
00:49 You have colours, you have celebrations, you have that unmissable ingredient which perhaps the star cast in the film says that you should not utter it but I'm still uttering the name.
01:00 It's love and it's all over in a very strange fashion, strange destination, two people, strangers come together and it gives you that mush, it gives you that celebratory factor.
01:11 But above all it gives you that celebratory mood and the feel of love.
01:15 Beautiful title and joining me now of course the cast of the film, we have Rajveer, we have Paloma and of course the director of the film, Avneesh is here with us.
01:24 First of all, all those ingredients are in place and yet it looks refreshingly different.
01:29 Your take on it?
01:31 You couldn't have said it any better. Our intention was to make a film which has a fresh take on love.
01:39 In the trailer, we used the term closure and that's I feel a part about an aspect of love because love is not just the falling in love part, it's also the staying in love part, it's also the falling out of love part.
01:52 And that's something that not to, I don't remember a Hindi film that's really talked about the closure element of it.
01:59 You know sometimes there is love which is unrequited, there is love which is unsuccessful, which hasn't been attained and it's so important to move on from that.
02:05 But very often people get stuck, you know they feel that we have to turn the page but maybe that chapter even though it's close, full stop hai, koi aankhe comma laga de, koi aankhe question mark laga de.
02:16 So there is this hesitancy to move on which is hampering the rest of your life. So that decision to turn the page, that decision to move on, that closure, I think that's a new element that we tried to bring with this story.
02:28 You have this unmissable bharjatiya as your last name. You cannot deny that, of course it's a huge plus but do you also feel it could also act as an impediment for a new director?
02:39 Of course coming from the legacy of that production house where sanskars are absolutely mandatory, love is absolutely mandatory and yet you have to revise it, revisit it, perhaps re-charm it in your own way.
02:51 So how do you look at it?
02:52 I think that it's always a responsibility for sure. You know there is a certain legacy, a certain etiquette if I may say so in terms of film making and the kind of films that have been made by Rajshri in the past.
03:05 That also has to be maintained but at the same time it's so important to as a director have your own voice. It's so important to have your own vision and to say what you would really like to say.
03:15 And that was something that my father said right off the bat and that's what I've tried to do.
03:20 Coming to you of course, just before the start of the interview I told you that certain gestures are absolutely unmissable and yet the story is very interesting and you are portraying this character without thinking about the baggage that comes from the lineage.
03:34 So while approaching the film, what the process was like for you?
03:38 First of all I wanted an authentic performance. I remember me and Avneesh went through the character so many times. It changed shape. I wanted to become very thin, I wanted to become a skeleton for the story.
03:50 I wanted no hero elements at all but Avneesh reminds me like listen it's not that type of movie fully. It is real but it's not that like really going into the nitty gritty of it.
04:01 It's still some hero elements and Avneesh would make me do monologues from other leading actors as well.
04:09 Till I found a perfect middle ground when it's just authentically my performance. I didn't try to get influence from anywhere.
04:16 Those minute gestures and all I guess it's inherited me without even realising.
04:21 And it is working in your favour.
04:23 Yes.
04:25 We see you appearing on the scene while tossing your hair and this air is being blown. This full filmy kind of element that you see.
04:33 What is it like for you to experience that in your first film to be able to get that you know the whole massy kind of flavour and yet the desirable kind of flavour to it.
04:46 Things couldn't have been better right?
04:48 Definitely. I am still pinching myself. I think the day I see myself on the big screen will still feel very surreal and be very emotional for me.
04:57 You couldn't have said it better. I have been able to be a part of a film that has all those elements.
05:02 So, I feel so lucky and I feel very grateful that I am a part of Avneesh's story and I got to play his character that he has written since so many years.
05:11 I got to play so many different emotions on this film. I got to even dance. I got to wear such lovely outfits.
05:17 And of course, being a part of Rajshri Productions has been such a blessing.
05:22 Amisha, coming back to the angle of love. I mean love in Rajshri Productions house was more about one person loving one individual perhaps for one lifetime and then perhaps seven lifetimes as well.
05:36 Here is a story that is twisting itself upon its head. There could be an angle of unrequited love as you said.
05:43 But at the same time, there is also hope for love which is revisiting love in a newer way.
05:49 What was going on in your head to be able to craft this story in this newer format?
05:55 So, like you said love is such a broad term. You think of romance, you think of love stories like old films which are classified as those love stories.
06:05 And it's always the attraction between a man and a woman or whatever and how they sort of come together in the end.
06:11 But love is such a broader aspect, such a broader term than just that. Obviously, there is love like you said.
06:19 You know that if you have fallen in love with someone that doesn't come to fruition. So, then you have to move on from there.
06:24 At the same time, there is also the love that you feel for yourself. Self-love is something that I feel again people don't talk about enough and its importance in personal growth as it happens.
06:33 That's also been an element of what we talk about. Closure, a lot of times closure comes when you look within yourself.
06:38 And when you look within yourself, you find all those things that you don't quite like about yourself that you sort of haven't accepted about yourself.
06:44 And it's so important to accept those parts of yourself. It's so important to love those parts of yourself before you can truly move ahead and before you can truly mature I feel.
06:53 So, that's what Dhonu is trying to talk about. It is closure, it is moving on from something.
06:57 But at the same time, it's also about accepting yourself, your imperfections, the things that you don't like and learning to love yourself as well.
07:04 I love the word, particular word that he is using. He is saying acceptance a lot.
07:08 For this generation which is engaged in hook up a lot and that is glamorized more than it actuated perhaps.
07:15 Because we tend to get whatever that is there in the west as is, thinking that is modern or progressive.
07:22 But I am glad that this generation is also breaking the mould and retaining our own roots.
07:26 Whatever that just comes from the west doesn't have to be acceptable as is in the name of being progressive.
07:32 So, in that sense Dhonu is very very rooted I would say.
07:36 Dhonu gives you that charm of love which is in its sense very very beautiful, very poetic and very innocent.
07:44 So, how do you see that kind of love? Did you have to accept that love to be able to grasp it?
07:49 Did you have to tweak certain things inside you or your definition of love per se to be able to craft the characters that you have portrayed in this film?
07:59 Totally. Love is something that is very personal. A relationship I think evolves with time also.
08:08 I think we got lucky because we got so much time to prep on this film.
08:14 So, we used that time to really read our script thoroughly, to really do improvs, to do so many different,
08:21 do our scenes in different kinds of ways to see what's working best.
08:25 We were able to collaborate on this project from the start. So, it's been super fun that way.
08:31 I gave a bunch of auditions as well. So, you know even through that understanding the kind of character and the kind of film that I'm going to be a part of was from the start only.
08:43 Yeah. Again the definition of love. Did you have to work on it or it comes to you inherently that kind of love?
08:49 I think for this movie, Avinash is very particular. It should not go too much in the negative space with this character.
08:58 The grey space.
09:00 Yeah. So, I had to really find innocence and a lot of people say I have it in me, inherit.
09:05 So, I had to really understand what they were talking about and I think I understood.
09:09 It's a feeling that you really don't want to hurt somebody. You really in your deep mind, you will take the fall yourself.
09:18 Absolutely.
09:19 If for anything it happens. And the character Dev, poor guy, he is in this modern era and he is trying to, he ignores all your social norms or whatever going on.
09:30 What's the latest fashions of relationships and all. He is still a little bit not stuck at the past but he refuses to really go with the flow.
09:41 So, in that sense he is very modern but soul is very, very mature I would say.
09:45 Yes.
09:46 And old school.
09:47 So, a person like that in this age, I feel bad for them.
09:50 And they do exist. They do exist. They might not realize it once they will grow up and they will try to find that identity because they want to fit in.
09:59 I mean all of us have been there in school trying to fit in the latest trend and all.
10:03 And when you reach a certain age, you look back like why was I really trying to hurt. I never liked it in the first place.
10:08 Absolutely.
10:09 So, I think all these elements, this movie, for me to understand this and the main thing of Innocence as I said, it's not to do with the love of your life or anything.
10:18 It's a moment, I think my grandfather wrote a poem and he told me it's his loneliness meets his, loneliness, I forgot the line, loneliness.
10:29 It's basically, it's like your inner child and your inner child meets with an angel and that angel is actually love.
10:36 It's a moment of security. It's a moment of really, really, you don't want this moment to go and you don't want anyone else to see this moment.
10:44 Were you in that secure zone yourself as a director, as a maker to project that kind of love that he is talking about?
10:52 I think that my ideas of love of course, the innocence of it especially is that I genuinely do believe that love of the purest nature does exist.
11:01 I think that that belief definitely exists within me and I have seen it around me. Obviously, you have to work hard to achieve I think that kind of love but it does exist.
11:10 And that's why I feel like these characters that Rajiv and Paloma have portrayed and have made their own, also those characters also believe in that kind of love.
11:19 There is a yearning for that kind of love. There is a desire to feel that kind of love. And that love need not be with someone else.
11:26 It can also be with yourself like Rajiv just spoke about the inner child, the angel. Love is that angel.
11:32 Love is such an important emotion which is more than the relationship between two people. It's also your relationship with yourself.
11:38 So, I think that belief was definitely there with me the whole time when I was working on the script and also with them when they were performing these characters.
11:44 The loneliness meets the sadness.
11:47 The loneliness meets the sadness. Oh, that's a lovely line.
11:49 And that is a breeding ground of innocence as well.
11:52 Yes, I would say that.
11:54 The melancholy out of it can breed true love.
11:56 My last question of course.
11:58 Beautiful trailer. You have a pair of new actors who are like breath of fresh air.
12:05 Perhaps that is the need of the story.
12:07 Maybe you have done it intentionally given the demand of the script and the story perhaps.
12:11 Going forward, since you have achieved and bagged some amazing reactions.
12:17 I was looking at the comments at the trailer below on YouTube.
12:21 What you as a director as well as you guys as a performer, apart from telling a story that needs to be told, you are going beyond that.
12:29 What you are looking forward to achieve with this one?
12:32 I honestly hope that people like the film.
12:36 It's as simple as that.
12:38 When you make your first film, I guess when you make any film, you want the audience, you want the appreciation, you want the film to do well.
12:45 So, that's definitely something that we want.
12:47 At the same time, there are people who have backed the fact that I can make a film.
12:50 So, their trust can be rewarded as well.
12:53 So, I think that appreciation from the audience is something that we just want.
12:59 That people like the film, people appreciate it.
13:01 There are so many people who have put in so much effort into making this film.
13:05 That it's all worth something. That's what we hope for.
13:07 And for you two?
13:09 I couldn't have said it better than Avinish. Truly.
13:13 I think a movie should really answer a part of your life.
13:16 I think if you really, really, when you watch a movie, you should take back something.
13:20 And you realise there's something about yourself, like a piece missing.
13:23 You see a movie, you're like no one could explain it better.
13:26 But I saw, they say art should transform into one picture that says thousand words.
13:31 We should reach there. I don't know if that will ever happen.
13:34 But that's what I truly believe in this movie.
13:38 That a part of you will actually have an answer that you've been looking for.
13:41 Being able to connect with a character or a story, if we can give that to an audience.
13:46 Us as audiences want.
13:49 And the stable that it comes from, the production house that it comes from,
13:54 and director as capable of him with the lineage that he comes along.
13:57 Every image as he said, not just a piece of art, but thousand words every images.
14:02 And that's multiplied by I don't know how many number of scenes and sequences.
14:06 All are gorgeous, beautiful, celebratory.
14:08 And they're talking about two people in love as love should ideally be.
14:12 Thank you so much for joining us.
14:14 Thank you.
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