Mammootty’s son talks about being on top of his acting game, privilege, and more as ‘Chup: Revenge Of The Artist’ releases
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00:00Sometimes they ask me, what's the worst thing that you write about yourself?
00:04And honestly, I can't remember.
00:05So I don't know if I invest that much energy into it where it eats me alive, it doesn't.
00:15If you don't want anybody to take you seriously, then you shouldn't be doing it.
00:19Because any job that we do, you want people to take it seriously, you want it to have an effect.
00:24You want it to kind of do something good.
00:26I'm not saying praise everything that you do.
00:28Even if you critique something, analyse something and say, this could have been done like this,
00:33I would have thought it could be like this.
00:36There's a way to kind of say something is right or not right.
00:39It's not to say rubbish, nobody wants to make a rubbish film.
00:43Everybody tries to labour fundamentally.
00:46And it's not one person's effort, it's so many people's effort.
00:49I think it's trying to bring back sensitivity and treat cinema as an art form,
00:53which it truly is because you're trying to create something new.
00:56Give it the respect it deserves, give it the critiquing it deserves.
00:58Not this film, I'm talking of any film.
01:01So that's all my point is, my point is sensitivity towards each other.
01:05Because today we're living in a world where critiquing has become a fashion.
01:08Everybody's trashing everybody, we get great joy in finding a flaw more than finding a plus.
01:13I'm definitely someone who reads everything.
01:17But also I think it is important for me to have my ears on the ground.
01:20I need to know what people are gauging me as an actor,
01:25or my career choices, or my performances,
01:27or what they are tired of seeing me do.
01:31All of these things help at least guide my career choices,
01:36where I want to go, how I want to grow.
01:39Because all of us want to grow, I don't ever want to be stagnant.
01:42So I definitely, it makes me very angry.
01:46I get really worked up, it shows on my face.
01:49During the course of Chupp Promotions,
01:51sometimes they ask me, what's the worst thing that you read about yourself?
01:55And honestly, I can't remember.
01:57So I don't know if I invest that much energy into it where it eats me alive, it doesn't.
02:05But during those times, like maybe fresh, what's happening this year,
02:10what I'm reading for myself, is helping me course the rest of this year or the coming year.
02:15So that I keep doing.
02:16I think a lot of critics have a lot to learn from you.
02:19It's a strange kind of thing, he could easily do it in one minute, 30 years free every day.
02:25You're a beautiful critic, because he's so sensitive about things that,
02:29like I'm not on social media, I don't read anything, my ears are not to the ground,
02:32never been, I live in La La Land, so I have no idea what people are saying.
02:35When he says something, he never makes a fuss about it.
02:39Even if he doesn't like something, it's such a small little thing.
02:45And when he wants to correct me also when I'm believing something,
02:49he's like, not you, just go.
02:51It's very simple, it's like he says it in a very simple, non-fussy way,
02:56but he understands that he respects the attention that I'm paying,
02:59so he just says it like that, I know what it means.
03:02I feel like I'm so nervous about doing the right thing,
03:06and at least arriving at what sir has in mind for this character.
03:11And my biggest fear all the time is that my directors think this is all I can do.
03:15So I'm like, sir, are you sure it's okay?
03:17No, go on, no, I can try, I can push, no, no, I got what I want.
03:20And he has so much clarity, it's amazing.
03:22There's countless ways to play a scene, there's countless ways to emote any emotion,
03:28there's countless ways to take a line.
03:29Now when I'm speaking to you, I'm not thinking about how I'm modulating this line,
03:33or how I'm projecting or not, but when it's writing on paper,
03:38and you have to make these characters come alive,
03:40there is ways that you can say it or play it.
03:44And sometimes we are not able to gauge if it's right by the character or not.
03:49He introduced me to the playground and he let me lose.
03:52And Shreya can fit in anywhere.
03:54She's very simple, she was the character that was there.
03:57She said, I don't want to play this, this is me.
03:59So this is what she was saying.
04:01And for her, nothing is a challenge, nothing is...
04:04I mean, she's so exciting, excitable, but nothing excites her.
04:08It's a lethal combination, she's actually a psychopath.
04:10If you think that a film is based on exactly that principle,
04:13so why don't we do it exactly the same way in actually showing it also?
04:17It's for the audience.
04:18The whole thing is about this complication of criticism and bias.
04:21Biasing people and taking them this way.
04:23Don't bias a person against a bad film too, by calling it good.
04:28Don't call it bad when it's actually really good,
04:31because of issues that you may have,
04:32personal issues that you may have about something else.
04:36So I feel that this is just an experiment that we hope people will have fun.
04:40Have fun with it, yeah.
04:41We don't want to stop you from saying what you want as long as it's true.
04:44Yeah, fair enough.
04:45But can this be a multiple choice question?
04:47What are some of these phrases?
04:49Compelling is so, like I sometimes look for synonyms for...
04:53Compelling, engrossing.
04:56Those should be retired, come on.
04:57In 40 minutes we write a review, so sometimes we run out of words.
05:00So often when you see a shabby work, you know why it is so.
05:03Actually, if you do that often, you know like,
05:06I'm always writing birthday wishes and promoting films for people.
05:11And now I feel like, am I saying the same thing every time?
05:13It's a bit difficult.
05:14I get it, I understand.
05:15Yeah, you get our point.
05:16Yeah, but as simple as you want to word it.
05:19Done, done.
05:20But honesty.