In a recent interview for the film "Yo Yo Honey Singh: Famous," Tanya Bami, Guneet Monga Kapoor, and Mozez Singh were interviewed. In addition to sharing some fascinating facts about Honey Singh and his hectic schedule, they also provide some information about the documentary that you should be aware of, so you should watch this interview through to the finish.
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00:00Well, actually, the idea was not mine. It was a Netflix idea. I never thought of it.
00:09And I got a call from Netflix to ask me whether I would be interested in directing this film.
00:16And I was a bit taken aback by the offer because it's a documentary. And I've never directed
00:21a documentary till now. And, but I was very, very, very kind of curious about Honey's life
00:30and everything that's happened to him, the highs and the lows. And, and as a filmmaker,
00:37I always wanted to make one film in my career about a rock star. And here was the offer.
00:44So it was a completely Netflix idea. They got in touch with me. They got in touch with
00:49Sikhya. They put everything together. And that's how it happened.
00:56So, you know, like you said, you know, you, you asked this question, Moses, me, and then
01:01this, this was absolutely the other way around. It is Netflix, Sikhya, Moses. And as I think
01:09Honey's life is fascinating. It's meant to be a documentary. In a short span of time,
01:16he's seen the highest of highs, lowest of lows, it is so colorful. And it is controversy.
01:21And you know, anything he touched became gold at one point of time and then gayab. So, you
01:27want to know what happened and what, where is he. And he's so determined, he, you know,
01:34gained all the weight, then lost the weight. Now coming back, we've been on this journey
01:37for three years. And Moses particularly has a really high, I feel, empathy quotient, you
01:44know, besides being a director who's very good with music, from Zuban to anything like
01:50we've, we've worked together for a decade and a half now. I think Moses is just one
01:57particular director who's one of the most hardworking directors at, that I have ever
02:02worked with. And I just think that, you know, he can, he has the capacity to have a conversation
02:09with anybody and get the best out of them. You know, be it in a gurudwara or in a nightclub.
02:15Like the most spiritual conversation and the most, you know, idiotic, you know, like simplistic,
02:22simplistic in one minute, but like literally something that you will remember, you know.
02:27So I was actually very, very excited for Moses to be on this journey, because I know that
02:32Moses and Honey together, Moses will be able to take out the best version of this story,
02:38you know. And that is something that we're very proud of. It's a pure, raw, all bare
02:45version of a celebrity. And there is definitely nothing like this ever done in India before.
02:56You know, I think Netflix world over has been very integral in the way we've shaped nonfiction
03:04content and its viewing. And I think we've tried to carry the same thing forward in India as well.
03:09So whether it is, you know, really starting out with building the crime portfolio, to then,
03:14on the other hand, really, you know, sort of a Kapil Sharma kind of a show, The Great Indian
03:19Kapil Show, or Bollywood vibes. I think there's just such different dimensions of the genre,
03:24that we've been able to build a steady flow of unscripted content in India and, you know,
03:31a viewer base for it. So the idea with, you know, this documentary, personality-based
03:36documentaries, which has recently launched the Nayanthara Beyond the Fairy Tale documentary as
03:41well, is that it is a fan favorite piece. You know, it is a personality, who the fans love,
03:49and Honey specifically, you know, there are idols who you put on a pedestal and you worship.
03:53And then there are idols who you would sort of put your hand on their shoulder and walk with.
03:58He's a man of the people. He is, you know, every friend's friend and every girl's boyfriend and
04:04brother and various things. So the dimensions in him are so personal to his fan base, that we're
04:12very excited to really open the doors to that mad fandom. And, you know, sometimes what happens is
04:18that these stories and these, this format, specifically slightly verite, but not quite a
04:24little bit follow as well, allows you to literally sort of share the same space with your idol,
04:31you know, and really walk their journey. Because sometimes when you see yourself reflected on
04:36screen like that, it can mean so many things for the audience. Honey's journey has been,
04:41like Guneet rightly said, it's been like up and down and up and down. And it takes a lot of grit,
04:48it takes a lot of courage. And I, you know, really kudos to Moses with the intimacy with which he's
04:54brought that out. I think when fans look at it, and when they sort of experience his journey,
05:00we've personally, we're very curious to sort of see what's the reaction, what's the empathy to
05:04him, because it's very nice to sort of read headlines and have an opinion. But this is
05:08like walking the journey with him, which is what is very exciting and different from anything we've
05:13done. And they've done an excellent job. This is our fourth partnership.
05:18Absolutely. In fact, you know, especially for documentaries, there's no other better platform
05:23worldwide. I think our journey on Elephant Whispers was a beginning of that. And it opened
05:29global doors. And now with Honey Singh, a personality like that, with music that transcends
05:35generations, you know, we just saw him in the AP Dhillon concert. And Moses is there and he says,
05:43the arena shook, like with hysteria, with people like going crazy. And that is the next generation,
05:48like that's 20 years old now. Literally, a party doesn't start without Honey Singh. And this is a
05:53deep dive on his life. And literally no other better platform to take the story from India
05:58to the world.
06:04You know, the first thing is that when you walk into a room with something like that as a film
06:10maker, and you want to extract information from someone because you're making a film on their
06:13life, you have to do a couple of things. Firstly, you have to drop your own ego.
06:18Right? Because you have to be prepared for the person to say, I'm not going to tell you.
06:22Right? You have to drop your ego and you cannot have an ego hassle about it.
06:26Right? That's the first thing. Because you have to understand that he is the star.
06:30Yeah.
06:30Right? You as the director are not the star, you're serving this film. And whatever he says
06:37is going to happen. Right? So you drop your own sense of ego and you, whatever all of that you
06:43come from, because every director has some kind of filmmaker ego. Right? And then the next thing
06:50you have to do after that is you have to build trust. It's really, really important to build
06:56trust. It's really, really important to be able to let the person know that you are here to do a job.
07:03And you are going to do to the best of your abilities, because that is what you've been
07:07hired for. Right? But at no time are you going to throw him under the bus. So it's a very
07:15fine line that you have to follow and you have to follow it the whole time. You cannot follow it
07:20on certain days. You have to follow it the whole time. You have to even follow it when he's not in
07:24the room, when you're sitting with your editor, when you're sitting with your producers and you're
07:28making decisions about how do you construct the scene, like how are you going to do it and all
07:32that stuff. And if you feel that there is not enough of the other side to show, then you're
07:39going to shoot that to make sure that it is balanced. Because the point of this film is not,
07:46the point of this film is to show a rock star in all his spectrum. Right? The good, the bad,
07:53the ugly, the colorful, whatever it is. It is not to destroy him. It is not to make him feel small.
08:01It is not to also make him feel unnecessarily, inauthentically larger than he is. It's none of
08:09those things. It is to tell the truth. So it's a very fine line and it's a long journey. I mean,
08:16I've been on this film for almost three years now and it's been, all of this has taught me a lot
08:23about myself that I actually have it in me to tread the line for so long and to not throw the guy
08:31under the bus or to do anything to hurt because the point is not to hurt people but the point is
08:35to tell your truth. So it's kind of merges and matches at some point.
08:46I don't think there were any checks and balances. It was a deep dive on Honey's life
08:53and in a documentary, you know, which is a follow documentary, there can't be any. Like,
08:59you know, there's nothing scripted. There is nothing we'd like to take this journey as it
09:07goes. So we've done our research and then we go and ask some questions. Then we meet the family,
09:12we meet the friends, we expand our circle of questions. Then we go back on the edit table,
09:17we go back and you know, figure out the counter questions and then you start constructing it and
09:24as you construct then you go back on shoot. You know, like now Honey's on a tour, he's in Dubai,
09:29he's celebrating his birthday, he's in LA on a tour and then you follow him there and in those
09:34moments somewhere magic happens. You know, you relive the childhood, you relive a lot of major
09:40life stories. So there were no checks and balances and it was always finding the best version of the
09:46story and I think that is something that was a core thread that binded all of us, you know,
09:51and that is something, it's hugely empowering actually. You know, it doesn't come with any
09:55rules, you know, not from Netflix, not from us, not for the director, nothing. You know,
10:01it's more like if you're with a personality and you are shooting, you're asking your questions,
10:07we would do framework like okay, what life we would go into, at what time we ask what,
10:14you know, like all that of course. You spend five hours then to get one hour of something that you
10:19will retain, you know. It's very time consuming, it's taken us three years. I mean, consumers will
10:24see this in one and a half hour but it's three years of hard work and also, you know, he had
10:31gained weight, he's, you know, he's dealing with mental health, you know, he's talking about that,
10:37very, very high level of empathy is needed to be like, how much time it takes, make it well.
10:43You know, so it doesn't come with checks and balances. I mean, this was in all its, you know,
10:48and then we had this huge undertaking of the licenses of all the songs, his journey is expanded
10:55over every studio possible, every music studio, every nationally, internationally, you know. So,
11:01it's a process that goes on, you know, you have to then take out something, take in something but
11:06it didn't really come with any checks and balances. It was and we enjoy that storytelling and it's
11:12actually telling the truth. It always was make the best version.
11:17You know, I think a documentary is a very long and very immersive journey and I think the only
11:25thing like Moses was saying from a director's point of view, I think from a similar creator's
11:32lens also, the only thing is the honesty to the story you're trying to tell and really stringing
11:38that through because unlike fiction, where you write and then go in and shoot, here the writing
11:43happens on the edit table. So, how much of a guardrail or a, you know, sort of mandate can
11:49you put on it also, it's impossible. Also, in a format like this, we are just at many levels,
11:56this overlaps closely with an op doc, which is very observational of Honey in various situations,
12:02how he's behaving, it's so unfiltered, it's so organic and authentic that only he can have
12:09the guardrail and he was, he is the subject of the documentary, he is the person who's actually,
12:17whose journey we are experiencing and that's probably the only guardrail that was,
12:22that the fans should see him in every aspect of his life, his highs, his lows, his weak moments
12:30or Honey as we perceive him, you know, the brazen Honey who's unfiltered, so there's all shades of
12:36him and that's also because we are very audience backwards as a platform, we do believe that,
12:42you know, it is, we are making our stories, are being told for our audience and this is what they
12:47want to see, they want to see the various aspects, they've seen him on concert, they've seen him in
12:51interviews, they've seen him in controversies but have they seen him with his family, how close he
12:56is to his sister or his mom, how his family feels about him, how the fans, how he gets stopped on
13:02the road even today really, you know, and the man on the street is talking to him like he's his buddy
13:10and saying that, you know, it's amazing the charm, so it is an, I think, a very honest portrayal of
13:19Honey and every kind of reaction that he spews but Moses should talk most to this.
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