Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar talks activism, lasting bonds, and new film 'Raksha Bandhan'

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00:00I love making films which just don't show about the problem, it shows about the solution too.

00:07I just love the story, I just heard it in 10 minutes, I said yes to this film,

00:12I just wanted to do this film. I love making films which just don't show about the problem,

00:17it shows about the solution too. My brief was very simple, just be yourself.

00:22Throughout the film, I have just been, this is my character,

00:26the area where I am working, Chani Chowk is also where I was born. The environment which he had

00:31created is where my childhood I have spent. So in this film, I didn't have to take any brief,

00:37I just took the brief of just being myself. I played Rajiv Bhatia in this film and that's it.

00:44Covid happened, because right after my first film which released in February,

00:47March there was Covid, within the next 20 days. So it was really stressful for the entire industry,

00:53especially for newcomers, but then there are people who also work in Covid.

00:56We had to be there like whenever, so it was his call time. We had to be there like

01:01an hour or so before because like since we were four, we had our hair and makeup to do.

01:06But we had fun. He's not just a funny guy or a guy who does action. When I met him,

01:14he's so simple and that is very attractive.

01:20I always feel it is the people who are new, what I look at them and what I see in them is the greed,

01:29the need, the want. They just want to prove something and that is what I love it.

01:37A lot of time I see after a success or something, they start coming out, they start losing it.

01:44They want to prove themselves and they will go on any extent. That is important.

01:49So I don't think it's a gamble. I think I love it more than a gamble.

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