Another portion of the 'Bandish Bandits' was interviewed by IANS, and they discussed learning piano for the second season of the series, as well as growing more critical of themselves. Following that, the series' actors began discussing the means of liberation, as well as how individualism affects society and where it leads.
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00:00It made me realize that going all the way down to step one when you're learning something
00:14new is very important.
00:17I think we often tend to feel that if I'm not good at something then we try to maybe
00:25let that go and feel like I won't be able to do it, we'll probably take on something
00:31else.
00:32But I started to get obsessed with not being good.
00:38Because the piano is such that you can't just learn both hands in the first class,
00:43which I was.
00:44It wasn't easy because your rhythm and coordination is just frying your brain at that point.
00:51And that also makes you understand how do you then use that rhythm in your performance
00:57and understanding the piano notes in your scenes.
01:01There are a lot of things that you can relate to just because you feel like something is
01:05hard.
01:06And I think that was the most satisfying experience, where you actually learn something and then
01:14you're able to play it and you're fooling people, yet you are actually playing it.
01:20At the same time, you've learned something new about yourself.
01:23Lovely.
01:30Learning is new art.
01:31No, I've learned how to trust myself more when I'm not good at something.
01:38Like I said, I feel like I'm not able to do it, now I should probably do something else.
01:42But actually falling in love with it when you're not good, it's the best thing.
01:48It takes you places.
01:49Random story, but I started swimming again.
01:52Simple, you think you can swim because you've been going for classes since childhood.
01:57And I do breathing exercises a lot as part of my craft every day and I thought, okay,
02:02I can do at least a few laps.
02:04Terrible.
02:05Terrible at it and I think that feeling reminded me of how when I was starting piano and just
02:12how I was just clueless.
02:14I just had three weeks to learn it and he's a Prodigy pianist and he says, oh, you should
02:20hear Khamakha in our scene and how advanced it sounds and it makes you feel very intimidated.
02:27But then when you pull it off, you realize that it's actually all about just hard work.
02:32It's not about being born as musically inclined or rhythm in you.
02:39I think those things can be learned.
02:45Oh, forget an artist, any human being, any human being to be an eternal learner.
02:52I love that.
02:53That's just how I know it because that's what I've been taught, my parents.
02:56Since I was a child, they've always told me that, you know, you have to learn something
03:00new every single day.
03:01And it could be anything.
03:02It could be a conversation I have with you.
03:05So, I think it's very important to have that learning spirit and for me, luckily, especially
03:11because of Bandish 1 and now Bandish 2, the kind of people I'm getting to work with,
03:16I've really become a sponge.
03:18I love observing them and there's so much to learn.
03:22And I mean, particularly on this project, because of the script, what's being said,
03:28the people that you're surrounded with, of course, actors like Ma'am and the entire
03:33Khurana family.
03:34We've also had a lot of non-actors who are actually musicians, like some of us from our
03:40band are not here right now.
03:41Krishna, Samad, Sanchi, Aneesh, all of them, they're artists, they're musicians.
03:47So, learn so much from them.
03:49So, I think it's important for any human being to be an eternal learner.
04:00It's either there or not there.
04:03You just have to have the hunger for it.
04:06When you have the hunger for it and when you have the excitement for it and you have
04:10the passion for it, I think it all falls in place.
04:12And as you said very beautifully, you are an eternal learner.
04:16You always want to learn.
04:18You observe people and you say, I put this in my scene.
04:21You never know what you pick.
04:23What your subconscious has held, you don't have any idea.
04:26Like, when we were doing this very famous scene in Bhagvil Khabhag, where I hug Farhan
04:32and that gold earring scene.
04:36So, our director had said, let's end this in our own way.
04:40So, when I was hugging him, I said, am I going to end it like this?
04:43Like a cliché hug?
04:45And then, just the subconscious memory of the role is recalled.
04:49I was like, didn't we shoot this scene with the father where he salutes the young Milkha?
04:54I don't know what happened.
04:55I just left the embrace and I saluted him.
04:57That became the end.
04:59I am saying, you learn something somewhere and just somewhere it came.
05:02And you have to be very conscious, very aware, very alert as to what you need.
05:06It becomes your bank, you keep taking out from it.
05:08Keep depositing, keep taking out whenever you want.
05:16I mean, I have barely done work to like compare.
05:20But it definitely is liberating because all work is liberating.
05:27You are getting a chance to just put yourself out there.
05:30And I have been very fortunate to be a part of projects that are genuinely close to my heart.
05:36Like I have not done things that I could regret.
05:39And like I am proud of them.
05:41So, it's always a big part of my life.
05:46Like I can't pick and choose.
05:48So, it's all liberating.
05:51I think even though this is happening, a lot of people including the really young kids as well
06:02are recognizing how this is a hyper individualistic world now.
06:07And they are choosing to go the opposite way.
06:11Like there was a whole, I am not going to call it a trend but it was very popular
06:15that a lot of young kids, like young 20 year olds were choosing to get married soon.
06:19Because they were like, no, no, we know what we want and we want to start our family.
06:22People are choosing to live in bigger homes because they know the cost of having lived abroad
06:29and how you lose touch with your roots.
06:31And you hear of how families that have left their country and have moved abroad
06:36are more rooted in their culture than we could be while we are still in our home country.
06:41So, life has a tendency of finding balance.
06:46There is like extreme chaos and then there is extreme calmness and then the cycle just continues.
06:50So, I think we are just in a very potent version of that because everything is internet
06:56and everything is here and in our face and in your ears and in your brain.
06:59But it's still essentially the same thing that it's a cycle that will have its up and down.
07:06And people will counterbalance each other.
07:08I truly feel art is an emotion.
07:10So, I don't think it should be affected by what is happening around it.
07:16It's one of the oldest existing.
07:19I was just coming to that, that art is also a reflection of society.
07:23And is why you will see a change maybe in terms of the kind of the amount of X, Y and Z genre
07:33going up because it's being mass consumed.
07:35Maybe because of this particular factor.
07:37But I really hope it doesn't happen.
07:39Because I just feel art is an emotion.
07:41Those emotions stay the same throughout centuries.
07:45You know as human beings we feel those exact emotions.
07:49There are none that have been added or subtracted.
07:51So, I personally hope it doesn't.
07:53Like somebody doesn't make something consciously because it will be consumed.
07:58You make a story because you want to tell a story.
08:01In any art form.
08:03So, that's how I look at it.
08:05I could be completely wrong about this.
08:07But maybe my opinion will change.
08:09Well, I think the answer to it is has to be a beautiful marriage.
08:14Between you know just pick up something that's beautiful in something.
08:18And also a balance that needs to be created.
08:22You can be individualistic.
08:23But you also go back to like I was reading this newspaper yesterday
08:26when I read all the Gen Z people are now having classes to learn Urdu.
08:30Or something of the sort.
08:32Post Covid you have started doing things that your grandparents used to teach.
08:38You are going back to the basics.
08:40You are eating organic food.
08:42You are doing basic things.
08:44I think it's always, it's never one thing.
08:48You cannot just be individualistic.
08:50It's not possible. You have to co-exist.
08:52The mantra is to co-exist.
08:54And art will always reflect that.
08:56Sometimes this can happen.
08:58Sometimes this can happen.
09:00But it will always co-exist.
09:04No, I think they have covered it all.
09:06I just think in the end
09:08a generation which has
09:10going forward
09:12stronger and stronger opinions
09:14and when they are more opinionated
09:16I think that will bear
09:18stronger art
09:20and more powerful art.