In a recent interview session Raashii Khanna elaborates upon playing a fearless investigative journalist in her upcoming movie, The Sabarmati Report. The film also features Vikrant Massey & Riddhi Dogra in significant roles & is all set to release on 15th November, 2024.
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00:00I have already told you that in the south of Bollywood, in their books, in the golden alphabets, it will be written that Harik Parna is Rashid Khan
00:10Wow, Wow, Wow
00:14So sweet. Thank you so much. This is the sweetest thing that anyone has ever said to me.
00:19And coming from your side, it means more because when a girl praises a boy, he means more.
00:26So, thank you so much.
00:28Yes, he is the most important.
00:30Yes, yes. Thank you so much.
00:34Thank you so much, it means a lot.
00:36We have seen you in a lot of characters, like I told you earlier that I have been watching you since childhood.
00:41From South Indian movies to Bollywood movies, you have played a lot of different characters.
00:46Because it shows the reality.
00:48When you got the script, how much time did it take for you to decide whether to say yes or no?
00:54See, my first reaction was a no, because this is a very difficult film.
00:58And you want to go right with it, you don't want to take the wrong path.
01:02So when they showed me the script and the research, I was convinced that I have to play this character.
01:09And as you told me in the beginning that you are relating a lot to this character,
01:13I was very happy because I want to relate to any character, especially you as a journalist,
01:18because I am playing the role of a journalist.
01:20An honest journalist who is new, who has big dreams that I want to be a really big journalist.
01:26I want to work in an English channel, I want to be a reporter.
01:29I want to see what truth is in front of him, what power he deals with in politics,
01:34and he understands that what he sees does not happen.
01:37And the one whom she considers an idol, her dreams break, how she lifts herself up.
01:42And she gets stuck in this crowd of truth, that I just have to find the truth and take it to people.
01:48So I am playing the role of an honest journalist, which I have never played before.
01:52And I am getting more opportunities in Hindi films to play relatable characters.
01:57So I think I am really growing as an actor.
02:00So I would like to do this in the future as well, I would like to play more relatable characters.
02:05And I am very happy that Sabarmati Report has come,
02:07like all our characters have been written very well.
02:10So I am just happy and I am lucky.
02:27You are a film journalist, but I am not a film journalist, so I could not see much from your angle.
02:43But I go for investigative journalism, which I think is very difficult.
02:48You put your life at risk to bring out the truth.
02:51So that is a very difficult path that you are taking as a journalist.
02:57So hats off to all the investigative journalists who go in search of the truth.
03:02So I will not be able to say much about this gap, because I don't have an idea about it.
03:07But I really respect journalists today even more.
03:11Even for girls, this happens a lot.
03:15I am not saying this out of passion, but it happens a lot,
03:19because you are on the ground reporting in your movie.
03:22So seeing all that again, what has been shot, what has been shown in it,
03:26it becomes very emotional seeing it.
03:29How was that for you when you were shooting?
03:32See, when we were shooting, there were a lot of scenes where I got emotional.
03:37I think boys are also emotional.
03:40They may not show it, but they are emotional.
03:44And I think for Vikrant, I would like to say that there were some dialogues
03:48where he was filled with tears and I was filled with tears.
03:52We both cried, you know.
03:54So there is a childhood, we all have a child inside us who is emotional.
03:58We are all emotional beings.
04:00So there are a lot of such scenes in the film.
04:02Because it is a sensitive subject, because we have shown a lot of things
04:06that anyone who sees it, you know, their heart aches.
04:10So it hurts more when you shoot.
04:13And now when everyone will see it, I just hope that their hearts are touched too.
04:17Like our hearts were touched when we were shooting.
04:19Or when we watch the film, we go through all of those memories again.
04:25So it was not easy, but the job of an actor is to put yourself there,
04:30you play another character, you do it convincingly.
04:32And we hope that people see themselves in us.
04:36Especially journalists.
04:37Ma'am, I would like to ask you, from South to Bollywood,
04:41the audience is still the same, but a few years ago they were very divided.
04:46So do you feel that if you are going to Bollywood,
04:50what will the South audience see that you like in South?
04:56Will the South audience see me in North?
04:58Now everything is the same, I mean, now everything is the same.
05:02Especially post-COVID.
05:04But then it was a little divided.
05:05You have been working in Bollywood for many years,
05:08did you feel nervous or scared that the audience will be divided,
05:12my fans will be divided?
05:14Look, I think I transitioned very well in the Hindi film industry.
05:20Because until I transitioned, they were one.
05:24So I didn't have any such thought in my mind that my South audience will be left out.
05:27Because even now my South audience watches my films,
05:30even if it is in Hindi, because now there is no language barrier.
05:32Now you can watch films in every language.
05:34So I have turned out to be such a lucky actor,
05:37who has transitioned at the right time, where I am not afraid.
05:41In fact, my audience is big.