On Sadashiv Amrapurkar's birth anniversary, let's delve into an interview where he discusses his journey in Hindi cinema, family life and his daughters' views on films. This exclusive interview with Lehren offers a glimpse into the actor's personal and professional life.
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00:00 After completing 8 hours of film line work, I forget it completely.
00:08 For the first time, I felt that I have lost my confidence.
00:13 Film line has no effect on my personal life.
00:21 I joined the film industry in 1982.
00:31 I was sitting for a play called Kanyadaan,
00:36 which was written by Vijay Tendulkar.
00:39 He had also written the script for Arat Satya.
00:45 He suggested me to take the role of Ramashetty.
00:57 He also told me that I never take the name of the director I suggest.
01:05 I have always had this history.
01:07 But I don't know if you will take it or not.
01:10 Coincidentally, Govindji took me.
01:16 I joined Arat Satya and then the film industry.
01:21 Film line has no effect on my personal life.
01:38 I keep my profession outside the house,
01:45 just like we keep our shoes off before entering the house.
01:50 After entering the house, I become a home-made Marathi man.
01:55 I leave the atmosphere of the film industry to the set.
02:05 Because it is my profession,
02:10 I earn money from it.
02:17 That's why I do my work sincerely.
02:20 Just like a person runs his shop properly,
02:23 or someone works sincerely,
02:27 it doesn't mean that he thinks about his job 24 hours.
02:31 Similarly, after doing the work of the film line for 8 hours,
02:36 I forget it completely.
02:40 I don't think about it after entering the house.
02:44 It doesn't have any influence.
02:46 The impact of the character I play stays on my head even after entering the house.
02:55 How much impression do you get from your recent films?
03:03 I don't get much impression.
03:09 I watch very few of my own films.
03:12 I have watched only the 3-4 films that I liked.
03:17 I watched Arat Satya, then Hukumat, and now Sadaq-e-Kar.
03:24 I must have watched a few more films.
03:27 People tell me about their reactions to my character in the theatre.
03:38 I can imagine, but I have not experienced it myself.
03:46 After 25 years of acting in the theatre,
03:52 doing hundreds of shows,
03:55 and taking live reactions,
03:58 I have got an idea of how people will react to my dialogue.
04:10 I get that idea while acting.
04:16 That's why I act in commercial Hindi films.
04:21 I get that idea.
04:23 If someone tells me that he didn't get any reaction,
04:28 I feel surprised.
04:30 Then I will try to watch it.
04:32 But I have acted with a cool head.
04:40 I know when and how people will react.
04:45 That's why I am very confident.
04:48 If I don't get this idea after so many years,
04:54 it's of no use.
04:57 Your performance has been appreciated by the masses.
05:02 How have people reacted to your character?
05:08 How have you interacted with them?
05:11 People interact with me.
05:14 Yesterday, I was going to a place.
05:17 My car stopped at a signal.
05:20 Some people from the slum saw me.
05:23 There was a young, handsome boy in a lungi and a vest.
05:29 He started acting like a Maharana.
05:33 I laughed a lot.
05:35 I turned my neck.
05:38 I said, "I don't know if this is good or bad."
05:44 But I saw that people react very strongly.
05:52 If they react to my acting,
05:56 it's better that they react to something good.
06:02 But this reaction comes every time.
06:07 After the car stopped at a signal.
06:10 When we go to an outdoor location,
06:13 many people react.
06:18 They shout and call out to the film.
06:24 They want to take a picture.
06:28 They say such things.
06:34 After seeing such reactions,
06:38 it seems that people are very involved in watching films.
06:43 We think that people watch films to pass time
06:50 and to get rid of their tiredness and tensions.
06:57 But that's not the case.
06:59 People want something.
07:01 They expect something.
07:03 They think about it.
07:05 They react to what they like.
07:07 I have worked in art films.
07:12 I have worked in commercial films.
07:15 I have come to the conclusion that
07:19 it is very easy to please intellectual people
07:24 with films like art films.
07:27 You can make a beautiful set with a good interior decorator.
07:32 It should be realistic.
07:34 You can talk about women's leave.
07:37 You can talk about tribal people.
07:40 You can talk about their problems.
07:43 You can talk about the exploitation of society.
07:46 You can talk about psychology.
07:48 You can make people happy.
07:50 But the masses for whom commercial films are made,
07:54 they do not understand intellectual things or philosophy.
07:58 They want everything at a physical level.
08:04 They want their sister to be called a sister.
08:06 They want their mother to be called a mother.
08:08 They want their mother to be called a mother.
08:10 They want their mother to shed blood for them.
08:12 They want their mother to be abused for their atrocities.
08:14 They want their mother to be abused for their bad deeds.
08:16 They want their mother to be abused for her good deeds.
08:18 They want their mother to be abused for her good deeds.
08:20 They want their mother to be abused for her good deeds.
08:22 They want their mother to be abused for her good deeds.
08:24 They want their mother to be abused for her bad deeds.
08:26 They want their mother to be abused for her good deeds.
08:28 They want their mother to be abused for her good deeds.
08:30 They want their mother to be abused for her good deeds.
08:32 They want their mother to be abused for her good deeds.
08:34 They want their mother to be abused for her good deeds.
08:36 What are your likes, dislikes and what do you fear most?
08:40 Is there anything that you fear the most?
08:42 You are a tough villain on screen.
08:46 I am very simple at home.
08:52 I am a pure vegetarian.
08:56 I like to read.
09:00 I like to go out.
09:04 I don't have a particular filmy style.
09:06 I don't have a particular filmy style.
09:08 I am a very common man.
09:10 I am a very common man.
09:12 I want to stay that way.
09:14 I have only one fear.
09:16 I have only one fear.
09:18 I have only one fear.
09:20 When I sat on a horse for the first time,
09:22 When I sat on a horse for the first time,
09:24 I was so scared of the horse.
09:26 I was so scared of the horse.
09:28 I swore that I would never sit on a horse again.
09:30 I swore that I would never sit on a horse again.
09:32 I would stay two feet away from the horse.
09:34 I was so scared of the horse.
09:36 I was so scared of the horse.
09:38 What happened to the horse?
09:40 What happened to the horse?
09:42 I think it was during the time of the government.
09:44 I think it was during the time of the government.
09:46 I think it was during the time of the government.
09:48 I think it was during the time of the government.
09:50 Anil Sharma wanted the police inspector to come on a horse.
09:52 Anil Sharma wanted the police inspector to come on a horse.
09:54 He is a hero.
09:56 He wants his father to come on a horse.
09:58 I had no experience.
10:00 I had no experience.
10:02 I had no experience.
10:04 When he told me to sit on a horse in the morning,
10:06 When he told me to sit on a horse in the morning,
10:08 I thought it was easy.
10:10 I thought it was easy.
10:12 I thought it was easy.
10:14 I thought it was easy.
10:16 I thought it was easy.
10:18 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:20 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:22 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:24 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:26 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:28 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:30 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:32 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:34 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:36 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:38 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:40 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:42 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:44 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:46 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:48 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:50 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:52 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:54 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:56 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
10:58 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:00 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:02 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:04 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:06 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:08 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:10 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:12 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:14 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:16 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:22 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:24 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:26 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:28 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:30 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:32 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:34 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:36 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:38 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:40 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:42 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:44 But Anil told me to practice sitting on a horse for an hour.
11:46 What was their reaction to it?
11:48 What was their reaction to it?
11:50 My elder daughter understands that my father is an actor.
11:56 She has played a character.
11:58 She can understand it from a distance.
12:02 But my younger daughters love me a lot.
12:06 They are involved.
12:08 When I get beaten up in films, they feel that my father is getting beaten up.
12:14 They close their eyes a lot.
12:16 That's the reaction.
12:18 I have not seen many films.
12:20 All the films I have seen are the same.
12:22 When I worked on the streets, my younger daughter, Reema, came home from school one day.
12:32 She started shouting, "Daddy, why did you do such a thing?"
12:36 I asked her, "What happened?"
12:38 She said, "All my friends started calling me 'Queen'."
12:42 One day, I took her to the village.
12:48 She complained to my younger brother, "Tell your brother not to play such roles."
12:54 What was your wife's reaction?
13:00 She should be the one to ask that.
13:02 Because it is wrong for me to ask for a reaction after playing such a role.
13:08 If someone spontaneously reacts to it, I listen to it.
13:12 But I don't ask anyone what their reaction is.
13:16 That's it. Okay.
13:18 Thank you.
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13:29 (music)
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