After Ranveer Singh, Hrithik Roshan, Varun Dhawan, Janhvi Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, and Ravi Teja, the newest episode of the Pinkvilla Masterclass is with Vicky Kaushal. The actor opens up about his soon to be released Sam Bahadur, and discusses the challenges of playing an Army Officer on the big screen. Vicky gives an update on his next, the Laxman Uttekar directed Chhava, and informs how his life has changed after marriage with Katrina Kaif. The actor also goes down the memory lane to share anecdotes around some of his most memorable films and explains how Anurag Kashyap and Rajkumar Hirani are similar. Watch Video
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00:00 How many people over here have seen the trailer of Sam Bahadur?
00:02 I'll meet the people who didn't raise their hands later.
00:07 I mean, just to show the trailer.
00:10 Just to show the trailer.
00:12 The films are gonna get me the magazine covers, but not the other way around.
00:16 That constant reminder is very, very important.
00:20 I don't take 4.5 stars to a film very seriously.
00:23 I don't take one star to a film very seriously also.
00:26 I learn from the one stars and I rejoice the 4.5 stars.
00:30 So I love numbers.
00:31 But you don't...
00:32 - Accounts... - Accounts.
00:33 Yeah, but I love box office numbers.
00:35 You love them.
00:36 Yeah.
00:37 You spoke about marriage.
00:38 I messed up.
00:41 Now that he has got the license...
00:44 You spoke about marriage.
00:45 Now I'll ask three questions.
00:47 In 2019, he asked, "How's the passion?"
00:51 And you all, that is the audience, said, "Hi, sir."
00:55 And now in 2023, he's back with yet another film
00:58 set against the backdrop of Indian Army.
01:00 Ladies and gentlemen, can we please put our hands together
01:03 for the poster boy of Indian Army, Vicky Kaushal.
01:07 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:09 Firstly, welcome to Pinkvilla, Vicky sir.
01:34 It's lovely having you here.
01:35 And thank you to the audience for being over here
01:37 in such large numbers.
01:38 Thank you all.
01:39 [APPLAUSE]
01:41 Vicky sir, my first question to you is,
01:45 this is your 11th year in the film industry,
01:47 if I'm not wrong.
01:47 You started with a small part in Love Shahood,
01:50 then Chicken Kurana, and now it's Sam Bahadur.
01:52 How do you view your growth, your journey
01:54 as an actor over the 11 years?
01:55 Now that you've said, I've realized it's been 11 years.
02:00 But I don't know, I feel blessed with the kind of opportunities
02:05 I got.
02:06 And like you said, it started off
02:09 with really small roles.
02:10 And then now to play a role like Sam Bahadur,
02:14 it's a huge honor.
02:15 But I guess with this, with every film,
02:18 with every character, your confidence goes up.
02:20 Your ease comes.
02:22 You're more aware of your own self,
02:24 physically and internally also.
02:26 So I think as a journey, I feel I
02:29 got to work with some wonderful directors,
02:31 some wonderful co-actors, and got
02:34 to interact with some lovely, lovely crowd, my audience.
02:39 Thank you so much for all the love
02:42 that you've given to me for all these years.
02:45 I promise you I'm going to work doubly hard,
02:47 triply hard to keep entertaining you guys
02:50 and keep coming back here to interact with you.
02:52 So thank you so much.
02:53 Thank you.
02:55 You know, like you said, that through the years,
02:58 so many interesting characters came your way.
03:00 And if you look at last three years,
03:02 you played Sardar Udham Singh and now Sam Bahadur,
03:05 Sam Maneksham.
03:07 What are the challenges of playing characters
03:09 who are like the heroes of our country?
03:11 Like you said, they are the true heroes of our country.
03:13 So there's a responsibility.
03:16 You can't be frivolous.
03:17 You can't be--
03:18 you can't be a joker and do anything.
03:20 You know, there's a structure you have to follow.
03:25 And plus, if you're making a film on a true hero,
03:28 because they've lived a certain kind of glory,
03:31 they have left behind a certain kind of legacy.
03:33 So you need to kind of sense the responsibility
03:37 that you're given.
03:38 It's not just an opportunity.
03:39 It's a huge responsibility also.
03:42 So that pressure is always there.
03:44 And especially when you get to wear the Indian Army uniform,
03:47 it's a huge responsibility.
03:49 You know, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
03:55 --as a costume.
03:58 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
03:59 --to really portray them is a huge sense of responsibility.
04:04 So that pressure is always there on you.
04:06 But I'm sure you interacted with them so much.
04:08 What have been your learnings from all those interactions?
04:10 And I think they love you.
04:12 They love you a lot, because you know what you did in Uri
04:14 was phenomenal.
04:15 It resonated with every Indian.
04:17 And now there is this film which is so special.
04:19 It already looks so special.
04:20 How have your interactions with the Indian Army been?
04:23 I think the one thing I really enjoy
04:26 when I get to wear the Indian Army uniform for my characters
04:29 is that I get to interact with the Indian Army a lot.
04:32 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
04:34 I don't know if I can say this on camera.
04:42 But before Sam Bahadur, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
04:45 there's a Maratha regiment posted.
04:48 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
04:49 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
04:51 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
04:53 So [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] there's a Maratha regiment posted there.
04:56 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
04:58 Before I started shooting.
05:00 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
05:01 They used to be like, you know, all the banter and fun stories
05:08 they would say.
05:09 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
05:11 They would be like, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
05:12 and everything.
05:13 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
05:17 So [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] they're taking me for three kilometer run.
05:20 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
05:21 They didn't treat me as a visitor.
05:26 They treated me as one of their own.
05:27 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
05:30 But it is a lot of fun.
05:31 I am like a kid in a candy store when I am around the Army
05:35 because I get to hear such fascinating stories,
05:37 such amazing, amazing heroic stories from them.
05:41 We have not even touched the tip of the iceberg
05:44 when it comes to making movies on the stories from the Army.
05:47 So [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] to interact
05:50 with them, with their families, who are equally heroes
05:54 in my eyes.
05:55 So yeah, that's like my biggest takeaway
05:58 when I get to do an Army film is that I
06:00 get to interact with the real heroes of the country.
06:03 But what is your process to learn?
06:05 Every film, you must be learning something.
06:07 And then for the next film, you have to unlearn that
06:09 and learn something new.
06:10 What is your process, and how do you learn and unlearn things?
06:13 Yeah, see, it's such an intelligent, fancy question.
06:17 And I really want to give a fancy answer to this,
06:19 a very actor answer to this.
06:21 But there is no such process that I sit,
06:25 and then I do something, nothing.
06:27 The prep is very, very serious when
06:30 you have to get into a role like Sam Bahadur or Sardar Udham
06:33 or Uri because it sometimes involves physical prep
06:36 or sometimes involves--
06:38 for Sam Bahadur, it was for 2 and 1/2 months,
06:41 every day, me and Meghna, who's the director of the film,
06:43 we would sit for five to six hours every day,
06:46 read scripts back to back.
06:48 Then we would decide-- we'd watch his interviews together,
06:51 read about him, meet his family members,
06:53 then decide, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
06:55 Because all his interviews are when he was 75 years old,
06:58 80 years old.
07:00 And I am playing him at the age of 20, 30, 40, 50.
07:04 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
07:06 There's no reference to that.
07:08 So we would just keep kind of decoding that,
07:11 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
07:14 Which can't be sounding like me.
07:15 I can't walk like myself.
07:17 I can't talk like myself.
07:19 I had to create this another person only.
07:21 So [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
07:23 But once the process is done, the shooting is done,
07:26 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
07:27 I think it just kind of fizzles out automatically.
07:32 Also, what I--
07:33 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
07:35 The physicality is what stays with me.
07:37 Like Sam had the habit of sitting cross-legged
07:41 all the time.
07:42 And one hand would be like this.
07:44 And so [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
07:48 I didn't know how to sit like this normally.
07:51 So the physicality takes time to fizzle out.
07:54 But otherwise, it just kind of happens
07:56 depending on the next project that you have to get into.
07:58 But do you take away things from the characters?
08:02 I try to, because if there's a character you're playing
08:05 that you are in love with, then you sometimes kind of--
08:08 sometimes happens.
08:09 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
08:11 You also start thinking, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
08:14 How would he react to a situation like this?
08:17 So [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
08:19 Some traits which you are in love with
08:21 or which you are enamored by, those
08:23 are the things which you kind of try as much as possible
08:27 that you keep it with you.
08:28 And as an actor, through the journey,
08:30 what has been your biggest challenge to overcome?
08:33 My biggest challenge, I think, what
08:36 happens when you become an actor is when you start off,
08:40 you're only focused at [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
08:47 But as and when you start getting a lot of work,
08:50 and then you're in a position to make choices,
08:52 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
08:56 As you transition to that, there's
08:57 a lot of things that happen in the periphery, which
09:00 is the frills and the glamour.
09:03 And there's a lot of noise which happens,
09:06 which is also part of your job.
09:09 But it's important to remind yourself
09:12 that this is not the job.
09:16 The films are going to get me the magazine covers,
09:18 but not the other way around.
09:19 That constant reminder is very, very important.
09:22 Because sometimes you get swayed away because you
09:24 take things for granted.
09:25 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
09:28 So let me just now kind of take that easy.
09:33 But that constant reminder that take every film
09:35 as your first film, take every film as [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
09:38 The first part of your process is that I don't know anything.
09:41 I don't know how to do this.
09:42 Now I have to learn everything.
09:44 So unlearn, learn, unlearn, unlearn.
09:47 That is the biggest thing that I've learned.
09:50 But you don't take success very seriously.
09:52 You just take it and move on.
09:54 It feels good, but I just remind myself that it's momentary.
09:57 I don't take success very seriously.
09:59 I don't take failure very seriously.
10:01 I don't take 4 and 1/2 star to a film very seriously.
10:04 I don't take one star to a film very seriously also.
10:07 I learn from the one stars, and I rejoice the 4 and 1/2 stars.
10:11 And then I focus on the work that I'm doing now.
10:14 Because otherwise, it becomes--
10:16 any of those two is very--
10:18 it can take you into a different space, which is not real.
10:21 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
10:26 I love you, too.
10:27 Thank you.
10:28 You know, like you said, you don't like numbers.
10:30 But you are--
10:31 I love numbers.
10:32 But you don't--
10:33 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
10:34 But the box office numbers, I love.
10:36 You love them.
10:37 Box office numbers, I understand.
10:40 Keep a track of that.
10:41 No, track, no.
10:42 Up to here, you are now--
10:44 whether you like it or not, those numbers are thrown at you.
10:47 You know, you find out later how the film is looking.
10:51 People are told how much they've earned, how much they've done,
10:54 how much they've advanced, how many tickets have been sold.
10:56 What's up now, it's-- we've all gotten into that ecosystem,
10:59 which is just numbers.
11:02 So--
11:03 A lot of scope for everyone.
11:05 But yeah, I mean, I like to kind of--
11:08 because at the end of the day, it is a business.
11:10 It's a show business.
11:11 There's a producer who's putting in X amount of money.
11:15 And I would like to believe that, you know,
11:17 that film earned him more.
11:20 So that, I'm always interested in knowing that at least that
11:23 is happening.
11:23 You come from a family, you know,
11:25 which is deeply rooted in action.
11:27 Has the thought of becoming an action hero ever crossed
11:30 your mind?
11:30 Not right now, maybe when you were not an actor,
11:34 or even now, like, whenever.
11:35 Hi, I'm actually personally--
11:37 I've done all these serious kind of drama roles,
11:40 and intense roles, and everything.
11:41 But I personally like to do action.
11:44 Like, I crave for the opportunity to do action.
11:47 I got that opportunity in Uri, and I was like--
11:50 I really enjoyed myself.
11:52 The film I'm shooting for right now,
11:53 there's a lot of action in that.
11:55 So I'm very happy being there.
11:56 But I get very happy when I get to do action sequences.
12:00 Yes, so I hope we get to see you more in that space as well.
12:03 Oh, yeah, yeah, a lot more.
12:04 A lot more.
12:06 How many people over here have seen the trailer of Sam Bahadur?
12:08 [CHEERING]
12:11 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
12:13 [LAUGHTER]
12:15 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
12:16 [LAUGHTER]
12:17 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
12:19 You know, I think this is one of the biggest compliments.
12:22 I think in the trailer, I couldn't find Vicky Kaushal.
12:24 All I could see is Sam Maneksha.
12:26 What was your prep like to get into that part?
12:29 Because, you know, it is so effortless.
12:31 Like, it seems so real.
12:33 When you're playing a real-life character,
12:35 that's what any actor would crave for to hear after.
12:37 Like, you know, the feedback, I couldn't see you,
12:40 but I saw the character.
12:41 So that was always a constant quest for Meghna and me.
12:45 And Meghna, as a director, is also like a--
12:47 she's a purist, you know, when it comes to, like,
12:49 the uniform, the detailing of the period, the character,
12:53 the body language of the character,
12:55 the way he would speak, the way he would walk,
12:57 or everything related to [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]..
13:00 And that's how we kind of attacked it also.
13:04 As I said before, we would sit every day.
13:06 And just as much as research as we could do together,
13:11 we would have a dialect coach, tonality coach.
13:13 Then we would-- like, I would be in RSVP office for three,
13:16 four hours.
13:17 And I would just--
13:18 while the entire office, there would
13:20 be, like, ADs, production assistants, producers,
13:24 accountants, and editors, and everybody doing their own work.
13:27 I would try to walk like Sam in the middle of all of them.
13:30 So [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
13:32 It was like a constant process.
13:40 So there were lots of look tests to get the look right.
13:44 And then, again, like, meeting the family, meeting the army.
13:49 So all of that was there.
13:50 Like, a constant, like, three-month process
13:52 before we actually did the first day of shoot.
13:54 That must be tiring as well.
13:56 No, it's a lot of fun.
13:57 Like, personally, those three months are a lot of fun for me.
14:00 Because that is when you're trying to find that guy that
14:03 you have to play for the next seven months.
14:05 So [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] where you're
14:07 trying to kind of find this new guy, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
14:12 That is a lot of fun for me.
14:14 Generally as well, do you enjoy the process
14:17 that is done before the shoot?
14:18 Or is it the shoot that you enjoy more?
14:20 I would say shoot.
14:21 Because a film set for me is like a paradise.
14:26 I love the energy on a film set where
14:29 there's like 200, 300 people from all walks of life.
14:33 And [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
14:34 And everybody's very focused.
14:41 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
14:43 You know, that's the one thing you miss the most.
14:45 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
14:46 That team becomes a new family.
14:49 And then [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] you
14:50 don't have that shoot the next day.
14:52 You feel a lot of vacuum.
14:53 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
14:55 Masthi, when I say masthi, it's not like we go and do masthi.
14:58 But that [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
15:00 Every day you're coming and trying to tell a story.
15:02 Every day [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
15:04 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
15:12 There are logistical nightmares that a team goes through.
15:16 But somehow, it's just all part of the magic.
15:20 So I really love that.
15:22 Through your journey, 11-year journey,
15:25 have there been any regrets that you
15:27 have in terms of the choices you made or the part you chose?
15:30 No.
15:31 No.
15:31 Firstly, half of this journey, I've
15:34 just been craving for opportunities.
15:36 So I can't regret for the opportunities that I got.
15:39 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
15:42 In the days when I used to step out for auditioning,
15:44 and I used to knock on doors, ads auditions,
15:48 short films auditions, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
15:52 But in any case, even if that has not worked,
16:04 it always teaches you something.
16:06 But I've always enjoyed the people I've worked with.
16:08 I've always enjoyed the films I've gotten to be a part of
16:11 and the characters I've played.
16:13 Now I'll name some of the films that you have been a part of.
16:15 If you can tell us some behind-the-scenes story
16:18 which no one knows about.
16:21 The first one, Masaan.
16:23 [CHEERING]
16:25 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
16:27, he finally gets a job.
16:57 In the end.
16:57 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
16:58 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
17:00 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
17:01 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
17:02, director Neeraj, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
17:32 But now, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
17:39 But in the script, I was not meant to cry in that scene.
17:41 There was another scene which comes after that.
17:43 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
17:44 I was supposed to cry there.
17:52 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
17:53 He kept it at the edit.
18:01 But then he was like, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
18:05 We have to stick back to the script.
18:08 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
18:09 And then I jumped into the water.
18:18 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
18:31 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
18:32 Sony, there's some camera that comes,
18:35 which is a small camera, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
18:38 So he had that camera.
18:39 And [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
18:40 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
18:46 I throw the ring in the water.
19:00 And I'm contemplating [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
19:03 moment where I'm not crying.
19:05 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
19:06 There was no film set.
19:08 There was no unit.
19:09 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
19:10 Neeraj, the director of the film,
19:18 he happened to wear a white t-shirt.
19:20 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
19:23 Out of the frame, he removed his white t-shirt.
19:26 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
19:27, where I am enacting that contemplation, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
19:54 And he decides to throw the ring.
19:56 And [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
19:58 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
19:59 With no light, no team, no hair, makeup, nothing,
20:07 like no assistant, just three of us.
20:09 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:11 [APPLAUSE]
20:13 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:17 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:18 Uh, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:23 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:25 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:29 When she called me and she told me that I'm, like, you know,
20:31 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:32 And I'm thinking about you.
20:33 But I would like to take a screen test.
20:36 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:37 So I was like, yeah, of course.
20:39 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:41 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:46 What I didn't know was that [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:49 usually it's the casting director's assistant.
20:51 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
20:56 But I didn't know that Alia herself would be there just
20:59 to give cues to me.
21:01 So she was very sweet of her and very professional of her.
21:03 And she's amazing.
21:05 She's just an amazing actor.
21:06 But that, I thought, was very sweet,
21:08 where I had gone there to give an audition.
21:10 And she was not even in the audition.
21:12 She was just there so that she could give the lines
21:14 and I could give my best shot for the audition.
21:16 And so that, like, you know, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
21:19 But I think, yeah, this is one story for that.
21:22 [APPLAUSE]
21:23 Next one, Sanju.
21:27 [APPLAUSE]
21:29 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
21:32 [LAUGHS]
21:36 Ah.
21:38 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
21:40 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
21:41 When he's drunk with [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
21:54 and [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
21:57 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
21:59 And at that time, I was shooting another film.
22:02 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
22:04 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
22:06 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
22:10 So it was [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
22:18 I would just try to catch the emotion.
22:21 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
22:22 But at the day of the shoot, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
22:34 [LAUGHTER]
22:36 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
22:38 Get that scene right.
22:39 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
22:41 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
22:52 For Sanju to get that Gujarati dialect, and in fact,
22:55 that character, how I got the body language of that character
22:57 you're talking about, Prep.
22:59 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
23:00 There's a lodge.
23:06 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
23:07 Or Surat Station, say, could five minutes walk.
23:11 There is a lane [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
23:16 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
23:17 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
23:23 And while I would just sit there, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
23:29 just to observe characters, how they are talking.
23:31 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
23:32, and it was [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
23:51 And when he was doing that, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
24:02 And it was very entertaining.
24:03 I couldn't hear him, but I was getting entertained.
24:05 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
24:06 And that is what I put in Kamli, that wherever he was talking,
24:11 he would always do some hand gesture,
24:14 which I got from a random guy in Surat,
24:16 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
24:17 [LAUGHTER]
24:19 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
24:20 Kamli is a fun character, but--
24:22 Kamli was fun.
24:23 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
24:25 Uri.
24:26 [CHEERING]
24:30 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
24:32 There was a lot of training that got--
24:35 like, you know, we had to go through [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
24:38 where [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
24:42 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
24:48 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
24:51 As for even--
24:52 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
24:58 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
25:03 So in the film that you see that [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
25:06 ropes and everything, it was actually us.
25:07 There was no stunt double, nothing.
25:09 So it was us only who were doing it from like 40 or 50 feet.
25:14 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
25:15 We were shooting in Serbia.
25:16 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
25:17 Because of a permission [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
25:19 situation [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
25:22 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
25:25 So I got injured with [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
25:29 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
25:34 But [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
25:38 My daily-- this thing used to be [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
25:42 because [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
25:46 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
25:48 I would train in the morning in the gym.
25:51 Then [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
25:53 Then I would go to the hospital first.
25:55 They would do a physio session for one hour.
25:57 And I would wear a sling, this thing.
25:59 Then I would go on set [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
26:04 We would shoot the action sequences,
26:05 then come back in the morning, then train, then hospital,
26:08 then shoot, then train, hospital, and shoot.
26:12 But yeah.
26:13 But [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
26:15 I would just want to take this opportunity to really,
26:19 really thank you all from the bottom of my heart
26:22 for the love that you gave to that film
26:24 to the character Major Vihan Singh Shergill
26:27 and to the Indian Army.
26:29 It is really special for me and everybody in the team.
26:32 And it's going to stay with me forever.
26:34 Thank you.
26:34 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
26:35 Hi, sir.
26:36 [LAUGHTER]
26:38 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
26:40 [CHEERING]
26:42 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
26:46 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
26:47 At the time where COVID [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
26:50 And [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
26:53 Actually, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
26:56 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
26:57 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
26:59 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
27:00 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
27:01 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
27:03 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
27:04 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
27:06 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
27:07 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
27:08 [LAUGHTER]
27:17 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
27:18 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
27:45 I think your first proper slice of life family film.
27:50 You spoke about [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
27:52 You know--
27:53 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
27:54 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
27:57 You spoke about [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
28:01 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
28:03 How has life changed for you after the [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
28:05 And what are the--
28:07 do you and Katrina discuss work in terms
28:09 of the scripts that come your way and the kind of films
28:12 that you want to do?
28:13 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
28:15 Scripts or films or [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
28:17 Of course, I mean, it's such an integral part of our lives.
28:20 We both belong to the same profession.
28:21 So of course, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
28:25 Whatever, whatever.
28:27 But it's been beautiful.
28:28 It really has been beautiful.
28:30 And it really is a blessing to find
28:33 that companion for yourself where you truly feel
28:36 like you've come back home.
28:38 And it genuinely is--
28:40 I don't know how you can describe in words,
28:43 but it's a very [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
28:48 It's nice.
28:50 It's your grounding.
28:51 It's your-- like, you know, it's your axis.
28:53 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
28:54 This is your ground zero.
28:55 So [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
28:58 She's a lovely, lovely human being.
29:00 You know, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
29:02 I don't know how to say it, but it's fun living life with her,
29:06 exploring life with her.
29:08 I was not much of a traveler, but [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
29:12 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
29:14 So [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
29:16 There's a lot of new things you get to share about each other.
29:20 So it's beautiful.
29:22 [APPLAUSE]
29:25 Vicky, if you look at the directors you have worked with,
29:27 you have worked with Anurag Kashyap,
29:29 and then there is a Rajkumar Hirani with whom--
29:31 I think both are too extremes in terms
29:33 of directors and filmmakers.
29:35 I'll be very honest.
29:36 They're not actually as extreme as they seem to be.
29:39 Because [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
29:41 But the way they function on set,
29:43 because they're both spectacular editors.
29:45 So when they're shooting their films,
29:47 they know exactly what they want,
29:48 how much they want from a shot.
29:50 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
29:53 And plus, they are very, very spontaneous on set.
29:56 Even if they've worked supremely hard on their script--
29:59 yeah, one major difference is that while Anurag sir
30:03 is capable of writing his scene on the set,
30:06 while his actors are in costume and hair and makeup waiting,
30:09 his scene is being written.
30:10 We don't know what to do yet.
30:12 It's being written hot and cold.
30:13 So that happens.
30:14 But Raju sir's script is worked on for two years,
30:18 two and a half years.
30:19 You know, it's being cooked on a low flame.
30:21 And by the time you reach on set, he's still
30:23 wanting to tweak it.
30:25 How can we make it better with performances and everything?
30:28 That is one big difference.
30:29 But they are very much alike also.
30:31 Of course, their films are very different.
30:33 That was actually my question.
30:34 You answered it like-- yeah.
30:37 When we look at this year, you tasted success, big success
30:39 in Zara Aadke Zara Bachke.
30:41 And that is a family comedy.
30:42 Is that a genre you want to build on?
30:44 Because people loved you in that boy-next-door character.
30:47 So you get that feeling of your own when you watch that film,
30:50 that character.
30:50 I don't know.
30:51 My approach is never that I want to do this genre
30:54 or I want to do this genre or I want to do this in this.
30:57 I react to a script.
30:59 The script connects me.
31:00 I feel that this story was good.
31:03 The role was nice.
31:04 I haven't done anything like this before.
31:06 I have a lot of time.
31:07 And I just dive into it.
31:08 But I never say, I want to do this genre.
31:11 I will do this in this and that in that.
31:13 That doesn't work in my head.
31:15 It's too calculative.
31:16 My instinct should tell me, this is a good story.
31:19 And you should be a part of it.
31:20 And I just dive into it.
31:22 You told us you're shooting for an action film.
31:24 That's Chhawa.
31:25 Could you tell us something in brief about what
31:27 can everyone expect from--
31:29 I'm shooting for a film called Chhawa,
31:30 which is based on the life of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj.
31:35 [CHEERING]
31:37 So again, a huge responsibility.
31:42 Directed by Laxman Uttekar sir, who
31:44 did the production a little bit differently.
31:45 Produced by Dinesh Vijay, who did the production a little bit
31:48 differently.
31:49 But it's fun.
31:54 We're working hard.
31:56 And for me, it's the first time.
31:59 It's a period drama.
32:01 But yeah, we're making it very, very seriously.
32:05 And there's a lot of action in it.
32:06 There's a lot of drama in it.
32:08 Very high on emotions.
32:09 And it really is a spectacular story.
32:13 Looking forward to it.
32:14 Thank you.
32:14 There is one question from someone very special,
32:16 which has come for you.
32:17 Meghna Gulzar ma'am has sent a question for you.
32:19 She sent it?
32:20 Yes.
32:21 She could have asked me.
32:22 Her question is, Sam, of which age phase
32:26 did you like playing the most, and why?
32:29 This could have only been Meghna.
32:32 I enjoyed playing his old age, where I was about late 50s,
32:39 where it's the '71 war sequence.
32:42 And in 1973, when he became the field marshal,
32:45 that portion I really enjoyed a lot,
32:47 because that was something new for me to do the physicality
32:50 and everything.
32:50 And the biggest benefit was that because we were not
32:54 relying on prosthetics or, you know,
32:57 some weird stuff to do the old age,
33:00 I had to bring a little weight on my face,
33:03 and I needed a little weight.
33:06 Because of that, the food I ate, we have shot in about 8
33:11 states, 13 cities.
33:13 I went to every city and ate there.
33:16 I mean, whatever I got, because it's the character's need.
33:19 I need a stomach.
33:21 I have to do a role once, where I can eat anything.
33:26 I have to do that role.
33:27 So that Sam's old age, where I needed a little punch
33:31 and a little weight on the face, I really enjoyed doing that.
33:34 I think even in the first still that was out,
33:37 it was from the older age, I think, sir.
33:39 Yeah.
33:40 Thank you, sir.
33:41 It was lovely having you here.
33:42 I hope you enjoyed and had a great time.
33:44 I really had a lot of fun.
33:45 Thank you so much to everyone.
33:48 [APPLAUSE]
33:52 There will be no movement roles.
33:54 [INAUDIBLE]
33:58 Yeah.
33:59 [APPLAUSE]
34:02 Thank you.
34:03 Thank you.
34:04 Thank you so much.
34:04 Thank you.
34:05 And [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] I would love to meet you guys again.
34:12 But now this time in the cinema halls,
34:14 when the film comes out on the 1st of December,
34:17 Sam Bahadur, please take your family,
34:19 please take your friends, and enjoy the film.
34:22 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
34:23 And I am very sure that you would enjoy it.
34:26 But thank you so much.
34:27 Thank you.
34:28 Thank you so much.
34:29 Thank you.
34:30 Thank you.
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