Gangster dramas have enjoyed an enduring fascination, and Indian actor Dulquer Salmaan, who’s gearing up to play a menacing and swashbuckling crime lord in his new film ‘King Of Kotha’, has an interesting theory about it. The son of the legendary actor Mammootty believes its eternal popularity boils down to his “conditioning” since childhood.
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00:00No, I've stopped kind of limiting myself in the sense of I would love to do this, I would love to do that.
00:05I'm just, I love the surprises when things come my way.
00:10Good afternoon, this is Manjusha Radhakrishnan from Gulf News.
00:13I'm here with the talented cast and crew of King of Kota.
00:17And here is a gangster, he plays an on-screen gangster.
00:20And I'm assuming these two women are his models or what's happening?
00:23Or did I just make a deduction?
00:25They will let us know.
00:27Firstly, you know, King of Kota looks like a gangster, very testosterone-charged film.
00:32There's a lot of actual women characters in the film.
00:36And whether they're sisters or mothers or lovers or anything,
00:40they all really are pivotal in driving the story forward.
00:43They're the ones who pull it in different directions.
00:46They are the root cause of a lot of the conflicts in the film.
00:49Beyond just being the genre-specific as a gangster film or a commercial,
00:55this class versus mass film, whatever the debate that's going on,
00:59it has a great storyline.
01:00It's very character-driven.
01:02And everybody kind of is integral to take this forward or give a direction in any which way.
01:11And definitely, I think the women play the crucial conflicts, I think, come through.
01:19But what about the movie attracted you women as well?
01:21I think women have got some serious role to play in this film.
01:25And to me, I'm sure you've seen my Mariam had an interview during Mariam Jo's.
01:31And I think after Mariam, this is one of the strongest character I got to play.
01:34So, I played that in 2018.
01:36Now we're in 2023.
01:38So, I close this character really close to my heart.
01:41And I should say that prominent women in this film.
01:44To say about the character, she is a very strong female character as well, just like Naila.
01:48Naila's character name is Manju.
01:51So, I actually had one thing when I heard this story.
01:55I was like, oh, I would kill to play Manju.
01:58That's what I actually thought.
01:59I kept saying that.
02:00Really?
02:01I kept saying that.
02:02Oh, I love that character.
02:05Maybe someday, somebody will approach me.
02:08I didn't ask for the character because I love Tara as well.
02:11But I loved Manju.
02:12What do you think is a fascination with crime genre actually?
02:15We've all been raised to be righteous and do good.
02:20Whether it's society will judge us or us, Malayalees living in Kerala.
02:27Most of our lives are decided by what will people say, what will people think.
02:32So, I think we're all so limited in the way even we react, how we react to a situation.
02:39I can't react so loudly or if you don't talk back to this person or like,
02:44oh, you made that situation very uncomfortable, you know.
02:48And if ever I do react, not just because I'm an actor or anything, even in a very
02:54closed setting, I will be told off saying, you know, that was not right.
02:58You should think before you act.
03:00And all of this, I think we're all been conditioned so much that when we see these
03:03people or whether it's crime or gangster or anyone living so freely.
03:10And like, yeah, it's vicarious fun to be had.
03:13Yeah.
03:14And they are not afraid of judgment.
03:15They're not afraid of even the law.
03:19So, I think none of us can really be those people.
03:21So, I think in those two hours that we watch a film, you get to kind of be them for that period.
03:27So, I have an affinity towards those kind of women.
03:29And luckily, I get to play one.
03:31So, like you said, you know, in our lives, in our real lives,
03:34you don't obviously get a chance to play that.
03:36But at least in movies, you can say that if, you know,
03:39your husband, your partner or whoever you hate in such a way, you know,
03:43get a gang ready to beat them up and all that.
03:45Yeah, just kill them.
03:46Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:47It's always good to give a quotation, right?
03:48But don't take us wrong.
03:50King of Kota is not just a gangster drama.
03:52It's got a lot of other elements to it.
03:54It is definitely a gangster drama, but it has got a lot of other elements.
03:57There's not like a bloodshed and mass element.
04:00So, I know, I know this is what is in your head, Manjusha.
04:03Yes, I assume.
04:04Yeah, King of Kota has got a lot of layers to it.
04:07It's got a lot of characters, a lot of emotions.
04:09It's a complete Malayalam cinema, I would say.
04:11How about you?
04:13I know you like to play women, complex women like the one she is.
04:17I like to play complex women.
04:18I like to play intense characters, but I watch K-dramas.
04:23I watch those very easy on the heart, easy on the brain stuff.
04:27I think your dreams have been fulfilled, right?
04:28You are playing an unapologetic gangster, morally very unscrupulous.
04:33Are you loving it or is it as much fun as it is to, you know?
04:37I just love this, living out all of these lives.
04:40I think jumping in from character to character, language to language, genre to genre.
04:45And so now I've stopped kind of limiting myself in the sense of,
04:49I would love to do this, I would love to do that.
04:51I'm just, I love the surprises when things come my way.
04:55Even though the most popular term in the Indian film industry now is manifesting.
05:00And so now I'm like, I don't even know if I want to manifest anything.
05:02Because I'm just, I love, I count my blessings every day.
05:05I love everything that's coming my way.
05:06And I want to stay open.
05:08If you guys had one superpower, what would it be and why?
05:11Think about this movie and then perhaps you can answer.
05:14One superpower, a super weapon.
05:15If I had a superpower, I would make sure that all of the movies that I am a part of,
05:22is entertaining to the audience.
05:24My only conflict in life is migrating to do the films, as many films as possible.
05:29And spending time at home.
05:31So if there's some way to crack that.
05:32Okay.
05:33If I could freeze time where I've given enough in one place.
05:37And then I can hit pause there.
05:40And then go to my work and give enough time there.
05:42Hit pause there, come back here.
05:43If there's some way of doing that, I would be the happiest human on the planet.
05:47I juggle a lot of professions.
05:49I'm here on video, I'm not there.
05:51I want to do a lot of movies.
05:53Of course, good ones that come my way.
05:55And I want to be here in Dubai.
05:56I want to enjoy shopping in the mall and everything.
05:58So yeah, if I can be there and here at the same time.
06:02Like multiple versions of me.