Catch the Complete Press Conference of the 1999 Super-Hit movie Biwi No. 1 with Lehren Retro. The entire cast and crew of the cult comedy film, which includes Saif Ali Khan, Anil Kapoor, David Dhawan, Karisma Kapoor, Sushmita Sen, Tabu, Vashu Bhagnani, and Ramesh Taurani, participate in a humorous and amusing round of questions and answers with the media community. Biwi No.1, which is directed by the hit-machine filmmaker David Dhawan, also features megastar Salman Khan. Join Lehren, your favorite digital site, for this exclusive press conference.
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00:00This is not the program nuclear test, we are not politicians, okay?
00:118 minute rule, she won the Oscar, just for 8 minutes she was on screen, and she won the Oscar.
00:30Where is BB No. 1 and where is Patil No. 1?
00:45I am saying where is BB No. 1 and where is Patil No. 1, we can't see them.
01:00I am wearing my father's suit also, do you like it?
01:16Hi, may I see who is asking the question?
01:18The photographers are all in front of you.
01:34Okay, I didn't come into the industry for a long time because I never knew I was going to be an actress.
01:41Thank you for calling me an actress because that's a compliment.
01:44It's very exciting to be here in this industry because this is something that happened to me, just happened to me.
01:50And now that I am here, I hope I can prove myself as an actress, something that I have always wanted to do.
01:56More than just being a nice pretty face.
01:59So I hope that answers your question. Thank you.
02:04Sushmita ji, why did you play the role of a vet in this film?
02:07Sir, one more time.
02:12Why did you play the role of a vet in this film?
02:14Have you seen the film?
02:15Yes, I have seen some of it.
02:16Have you seen the songs?
02:17Yes, I have seen the songs.
02:19There is a lot of difference in how you look, how you look and how you understand.
02:22So you have seen the film also?
02:23Yes, I have seen the film also.
02:30The press is so cold today, I can't understand.
02:33There are a lot of new people today.
02:35It started too late also.
02:36Are you going to give him a finger?
02:43From Govinda to Anil Kapoor and Sharmankar.
02:46How will the number one be divided?
02:53But you have kept David Dhawan.
02:55Yes, definitely, because David Dhawan is number one.
02:57Chandal is number one.
03:02Chudail is number one.
03:04Chudail is number one.
03:08You have made a mistake by taking Bibi as number one.
03:11I have invited a friend of mine for this film.
03:14His wife is number two.
03:16He said, give me Bibi as number one.
03:20That's why he thought he was number two.
03:22You are joking, don't do this.
03:24You are saying this, I am not saying this.
03:27I knew the object.
03:30Object on what point?
03:31You have got success from a number one series.
03:35You object on this point first.
03:37Yes, tell me, what is the objection?
03:45It won't be wrong.
03:49You have to go to work.
03:54You won't go.
03:56You won't go.
04:02You will get to know.
04:05After watching this, you will go anywhere and come back home.
04:19First wife is always first.
04:21Second wife's question never stops.
04:31Tell us that you are doing a guest appearance on a blockbuster movie.
04:38Why a guest appearance on a movie?
04:41Why not a what?
04:45Number one, this is what I was offered.
04:48I am thinking whether I will give a serious answer or not, but I will.
04:52I happen to believe that there are no such things as small roads.
04:57I think it is a good gesture that people who are interested in cinema generally and working with people,
05:03just do something, play a role, no matter how big or small.
05:07And suddenly you will find that a lot of people will start doing that sort of thing.
05:11Because there is nothing wrong with it.
05:13It just helps.
05:21It is not about just playing the main lead.
05:24Sometimes you just play parts and you end up being part of the whole process.
05:28You did that.
05:30Wow.
05:32So, Shridhar, tell us what are your expectations, especially for you,
05:36what are your expectations for this movie towards your career?
05:39How far is it going to take you?
05:42And will you try to portray a different image?
05:45Yes.
05:47Please tell us a little about the different image that you try to portray.
05:50And how far is it going to take you?
05:52Like my friend sitting behind me said, I am very bad person in the film.
05:58I am so sorry to disappoint you.
06:00But it is a film that, when it was offered to me, the role that it was offered to me,
06:05then, you know in this film industry, a lot of times people offer you magnificent roles.
06:10And by the time it gets to the editing room, everything is gone.
06:13It is not the way it was supposed to be.
06:15I am very proud of one thing, which is in this film, the role that I was promised,
06:18it has come out a thousand times better than what I had expected it to be.
06:22I am not saying that because I am sitting with everybody here,
06:25but because this is the kind of role I wanted to do something different,
06:30which was like comedy, you know.
06:32And since I have got to do something different, I have tried to do my best.
06:36I have tried to play a caricature role instead of playing Sushmita as a character,
06:39but just a caricature role.
06:41Hopefully, it should be fine.
06:48Is it a formal training for your acting, or is it just for fun?
06:54You know, I am one of those people who believe that all of us are natural born actors to an extent.
07:00We do it every day in our natural lives.
07:02We, starting from when we were children, we were acting how to go to school.
07:07We have done that all the time.
07:09So, I think, no, I don't have any formal training, no mechanical training to be an actor.
07:14But whatever it is, I try and just copy lives and get that as much as possible into cinema.
07:18That's what acting is to me.
07:21Are you going to, over here you are playing an elder brotherly kind of a role,
07:30and a friend who is a guidance factor.
07:33Are these kind of roles that you are going to play in the near future, or what?
07:38See, I started my career as a grandfather.
07:48And then I did a father's role.
07:52Then I did the elder brother's role.
07:57Then I did a lover's role.
07:59So, I keep on changing myself.
08:01See, what is important is how good the role is.
08:03It can be the elder brother, younger brother, father, grandfather, anybody.
08:06What is important is how good the role is, what impact it will have on the script,
08:11how important it is for the script.
08:13And who is making the film.
08:15Most important, what is the script, who the director is, who the producer is.
08:18That's the most important thing in a film.
08:21So, what is important is, if the elder brother has a good role,
08:27I would love to do elder brother all my life.
08:30All my life.
08:32Every film.
08:33Every film should have something different to offer me.
08:35In this film, I am doing something which I have never done.
08:38Something which is, you know, which offers me to do something different,
08:44which I have not done in my earlier films.
08:46And, well, it was a very satisfying experience.
08:50It's not a very lengthy role, but it is, I am sure, it will have an impact.
08:54Is it a woman-oriented film?
08:56It is definitely, as the title suggests,
08:59it is, the film belongs to Karishma Kapoor,
09:03it belongs to Sushmita Sen, it belongs to Kapoor.
09:06It is a woman, as the title suggests, it is a woman-oriented film.
09:10It is BB No. 1.
09:12It is a film which will highlight what a woman is.
09:17What BB No. 1 is.
09:20Because we want that every BB should be No. 1.
09:29Yes.
09:32Do you have anything else?
09:40I don't have a very lengthy role.
09:46It is, if you judge it by the length,
09:51then it is a smaller role than the main lead.
09:54But I think it's got a lot of substance in it.
09:58By which I mean that it's done something which I have not done earlier.
10:04It's a comic role.
10:06It's not like I am trying to do comedy on it.
10:10But the character has been conceived that way.
10:13She is very funny.
10:15I mean, whatever she does, it turns out to be a funny thing
10:19or something hilarious, ridiculous, actually.
10:22So, I have enjoyed doing this role.
10:25Like a cameo.
10:27But I have had great fun doing this.
10:30And it has been very relaxing for me to do this film, actually.
10:36I like comedy.
10:39I like watching comedy.
10:41And this is the first time I have done something like this.
10:44I am a very comfortable working with David.
10:47I guess he is the right guy to do such a role with.
10:51Thanks.
10:52Hence, a lot of firsts with this movie.
10:54Sorry?
10:56Hence, a lot of firsts with this movie.
10:58A lot of firsts.
11:00No, I have done small and special appearances many times before this.
11:05It's not the first time I have done a small role.
11:08Yeah, it's the first time I have done comedy.
11:23Oh!
11:30Now, Karishma Kapoor is here.
11:32If anybody wants to ask any questions.
11:34Yeah.
11:37Yeah.
11:40See, I am not a male chauvinist.
11:43What is important is how good the script is.
11:46What is my role in that script.
11:48The picture should be successful.
11:50That is the most important thing.
11:52I have proved it again and again and again.
11:54And I am proving it since so many years.
11:56And still you are asking the same question.
11:58What is important is that I believe in equality.
12:00Husband, wife, man, woman, boy, girl.
12:03You understand what I mean?
12:05If I like the script, then my role is a two-minute role or a one-minute role.
12:08Who won the best supporting actress?
12:10Eight-minute role.
12:12She won the Oscar.
12:14Just for eight minutes she was on screen.
12:16And she won the Oscar.
12:18An Oscar is something which is recognized all over the world.
12:20So, it is never the length of the role.
12:22From my first frame to last frame I have been there.
12:25So, what is better, to do a small role,
12:29which is a film, which has become successful,
12:31which is a good film, a good script,
12:33or a role, or a film,
12:35where I do from first frame to last frame,
12:37and nobody goes to see the film.
12:39Can I say something?
12:41No, you can't, because I am speaking.
12:43Yeah.
12:45Sorry.
12:47Look, it is none of my business.
12:49Because I have been very proud to do a guest appearance in this movie.
12:52But the thing is, I think you all are taking it too seriously.
12:55Yeah.
12:57Okay? This is not the Pogran nuclear test.
12:59We are not politicians.
13:01Okay?
13:03The thing is, this is a really funny guy.
13:05Your life is really bad today.
13:07Okay?
13:09You have a terrible life.
13:11I promise you.
13:13You will go and see this movie and just laugh till you cry.
13:15That's all we are doing.
13:17That's it.
13:19It's really funny.
13:21Everyone has a good time.
13:23After that, I mean,
13:25like I said, I am not a politician.
13:27I am not a doctor.
13:29It's not going to save your sick mother's life.
13:31It's not going to.
13:33But it will make you laugh.
13:37All right.
13:39You are a private actor.
13:41You play each individual.
13:43But somehow, Mr. Kapoor,
13:45probably would have justified
13:47with Mr. Khan
13:50You see, everybody is playing their roles
13:52so well in the film.
13:54They are all interconnected with the story.
13:56Sometimes the ball falls in his court,
13:58the other time it falls on the other guy's court.
14:00It's very beautifully done.
14:02Because, I mean, Kapoor also gets trapped in the film.
14:06See that?
14:08You got to see to believe.
14:10Next number one.
14:13Next number one?
14:15Public number one.
14:17Correct?
14:19Every day they will decide
14:21I should make a number one or not.
14:23Huh?
14:25Maybe, yeah.
14:27You never know.
14:29Everything is open for us.
14:32You would like to ask me
14:34what is the highlight of your role?
14:36In the film.
14:38He is there.
14:40That is the highlight.
14:42You still needed it.
14:44Why should he ask if you said
14:46what is the highlight of your role?
14:47What is the highlight of your role
14:49in the film?
14:52Well, I think I have a very interesting role.
14:54It's different.
14:56I am playing the wife.
14:58And I wouldn't like to disclose too much
15:00because then that's like telling
15:02the entire story out here.
15:04So, I want everybody to go to the theatre
15:06and watch it.
15:08You know, they tell the story out here.
15:10Okay?
15:12But, Karishma, aren't you playing
15:14a similar kind of role
15:15in this film?
15:17Not at all.
15:19See, there are so many women
15:21who, when they are married,
15:23have a happy marriage
15:25and they don't realize what is going on.
15:27And even if you come and tell
15:29the wife, listen, your husband
15:31is having an affair
15:33or we saw him with another woman,
15:35they won't believe you.
15:37Which is very real.
15:39It happens with so many women.
15:41So, that is something about my character.
15:43So, it's not similar at all.
15:45Do you want to add him to Saree
15:47which was part of the modern system?
15:49No, I am not in Sarees.
15:51That won't be at all.
15:53I don't want to add him to Sarees.
15:55Okay?
16:09Okay?
16:16Director No. 1!
16:22Brothers and sisters!
16:34Who will give the award?
16:36You!