IANS recently interviewed Divyenndu, Pratik Gandhi, and Sai Tamhankar, the stars of the film 'Agni', as well as the director Rahul Dholakia. They talk about their characters in the flicks and why they picked firefighting roles. Following that, Pratik discussed his physical training for his character. The director, Rahul Dholakia, finally revealed an incident that occurred on the set.
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00:00I think the story's germ came from the fact that you know when you go abroad
00:12you see whether it's the memorial at World Trade Center or anywhere else that
00:17there's a lot of respect given to firefighters and that's when I thought
00:23that there was no film made on firefighters in India and I thought that
00:28it should be interesting to explore and then the deeper you go in the more you
00:33learn and the more you feel the need to tell this story so it's their story
00:40we've tried to tell it as honestly as we can and I think it also is extremely
00:49visually powerful you know their world which is challenging for us as filmmakers
00:56because it's not just telling somebody's story the way the story the drama is
01:00inherent over there but the visual elements and the way as filmmakers you
01:05can actually use all your facets and all your talents and the HODs and the crew
01:14which can actually bring their best to it is what is the challenge and the fun part of it
01:26honestly I mean this time around you know the world was so fascinating you
01:32know that I just wanted to be part of this world yes I mean my character
01:37Samit Sawant yes he's a very colorful you know very you know highly decorated
01:42cop and everything all that apart but I like really wanted to be part of this
01:48because you know it's it's about a representation to firefighters you know
01:52who are who are very very important to our society secondly yes that's that's
02:01that serves like the backdrop of the film but to begin with we are making a
02:07film to entertain people you know so it has to have that kind see you read a
02:13script and then you and then whether you want to be part of it or not you know
02:17there and then you decide so for me it was an entertaining film to be part of
02:21you know it was talking about something really nice you know I like the
02:25character arc you know and something new I could you know show people around this
02:30time so it it was all takes and you know I was again collaborating with Excel
02:35media you know which I've done number of projects with them so it was all I mean
02:40yeses and you know when a name like Rahul sir's come you know you know a
02:44filmmaker is is a sensible one you know you know the intentions are right you
02:50know it's not just to titillate people in a wrong manner but you know to say
02:53something which has some meaning so I think it's the amalgamation of all
02:57these things yeah
03:03yeah hard to say I mean as an audience yes but selfishly as an artist you know
03:15you you're like was I know the people who are making it this is gonna be
03:24something nice and what I am being offered is again very different because
03:29you know this film so this whole I think journey started some
03:38three years back you know when I first time read the script and everything and
03:42and us time pay for me to play a cop you know a mature man and something I was
03:48like it it must be you know something really nice for me to you know explore
03:54so yeah but yeah I like the question I mean I still don't have a particular
03:59answer that you know whether it was the audience in me or the actor but yeah
04:04selfishly I think it must be the actor in me you know want to be part of
04:08I think as an actor you want to play different characters like you said so
04:14but I think every film wants to entertain and this is also an
04:20entertaining film but what are the message what is the message that it's
04:23trying to convey so that was very important nothing has been made on this
04:26so that was something the world is new and plus Rahul sir is making it so again
04:31but sometimes even if you don't in in matters like these in scripts like this
04:36sometimes even if you don't get a part of your like something different that
04:40you want to play but still I think for me like being a part of such an
04:44important film that sends an important message is more important I feel so even
04:47if I'm not able to get a part that is very different I'll still be like to be
04:51a part of this. I have a slightly filmy answer to this but it's a it's an honest
04:56answer I think the human being took over the most because I learned that I'm going
05:04to get educated as a citizen in a new light it was a different world a world
05:10never seen before and of course as the Divendu correctly said that actor gets
05:16greedy when he or she sees something different something unique something
05:21special so all this did happen
05:26I think my character is I think you can young young firefighter young blood and
05:39I'm 24 years old in the film, I'm not in real life but in the film I played a 24 year old
05:44so again I think he belongs to a normal middle class strata of society
05:50say he belongs and I cannot talk about Sayami in my like I mean I have a love
06:00story with the love story with Sayami and my track with her and plus the that's
06:08my personal and collectively as firefighters how we're trying to navigate
06:16the things that are happening in the city so
06:20I think mashaAllah physically I'm fit
06:27What training did you do?
06:29Training with the firefighters like they're going up and down the building
06:35the drills are normal then first time I remember when we went to Odala fire station there was this
06:40place that they have built there that is you know just small small spaces that is
06:47just for their drill you have to go down and it's a proper maze sort of stuff and
06:54the smoke is like a simulation of real life so when I first did that I was like when I
07:04first went in so there's a timer right I was they told me that I am the first one who came
07:09out because I was like I have to get out of this this I came out and they were like you
07:15came out the earliest I said no it's not courage I wanted to save myself
07:19He was the first one
07:25He was the first one
07:27But I'll tell you
07:29What he means to say is that I came first in the race and I was running alone
07:32Okay
07:40Which happened on set for Siami because she's not here and we should talk about her also
07:44There was a scene where all these guys had to go from ground floor to second floor
07:52and their apparatus, mask, uniform is also very heavy, they have to hold ropes and oxygen cylinders
08:02they have to run upstairs with all that
08:08So we had told the production designer to make dummies because there is like 7 pounds, 8 pounds
08:16So we did like 2 takes, 3 takes, 4 takes
08:23Then Siami was running and everyone else wasn't
08:28So I said why are these guys running so slow?
08:31Because you have to show the spurti right?
08:34Then I said what's so difficult?
08:37Then I took one of the guys oxygen cylinder and whoop I went down
08:44So they had forgotten to put the dummy ones
08:48So with the actual one, she is running up 2 floors and about 4 takes
08:56So that just says volumes for her
08:59She didn't have a single word on her face that I'm tired or something
09:03I said you should have told me this
09:05But it was amazing
09:07So that is the dedication which these guys had because they had trained for 8 weeks
09:12All of them, Pratik also, Jeetu also, Jeetu also climbed up