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00:00Good afternoon, this is Manjusha Radhakrishnan from Gulf News and Eid has come a day early
00:09for us with two of the biggest action stars of Bollywood.
00:13They are the most disciplined, talented and prolific.
00:17Both of them come out with movies and they look amazing together.
00:20Firstly, Akshay and Taiga, I am so happy that there are two heroes in this movie and Prithviraj
00:25as well as a super villain.
00:26So good to see actors come together.
00:29Do you think this is how it should be, how Bollywood should function?
00:34Any would should function.
00:35Whether it's Hollywood or Bollywood or any would.
00:39Every would should function.
00:40They all should be together and that is how you create a furniture.
00:44A furniture?
00:45Did you just call your movie a furniture?
00:48Everything.
00:49This is like a mansion, honey.
00:50I'll take whatever.
00:51Only after the release, we'll come to know how big a mansion or how small a showroom
00:56it is.
00:58So that is how it is.
00:59If you look at films like Avengers and all, we get so happy when we see all our favourite
01:04heroes together.
01:05Do that.
01:06I think people should do it in our industry also.
01:09We should come out with lot of 3-3, 2-2, 4-4, 5-5 heroes.
01:13The more the merrier, I think.
01:14If it is required.
01:15If it's required, yeah.
01:16I was saying in the 90s, I remember sir's films.
01:17Sir used to do with Sunil Shetty sir.
01:18John Abraham.
01:19There you go, John Abraham.
01:21All sir's biggest hits, back-to-back hits, because as fans, we like to see our heroes
01:35together bring in an even bigger package.
01:39Right.
01:40And Tiger, you have also acted with Hrithik Roshan.
01:42It's not that he hasn't done it.
01:43There's a lot of bromance between you two, such brotherhood.
01:46I feel there's zero rivalry, which is not easy, right?
01:50Is it because of your wise nature, sir?
01:53And you, because at, in your 30s, you're what, 34?
01:56I'm 33 now, yes.
01:57You're 33, and you're turning 54?
01:5957.
02:0057.
02:01You look so good.
02:02The most good-looking 50-year-old we have seen.
02:05Yeah, 100%.
02:06It's true.
02:07So, no competition between you two, huh?
02:10Competing is not good.
02:12I don't believe in competition.
02:14You know, yesterday only, we had gone to this BAPS temple in Abu Dhabi, and there the Swamiji
02:21was telling us, you remember this?
02:23No, sir.
02:24About competition.
02:25Yaad dilao bhaji.
02:26Yeah, yeh, bulao dam, ki about competition, that, I, I, I,
02:31Oh, there's no such thing as healthy competition, correct?
02:34Yes.
02:35Correct.
02:36Because that creates, some way or the other, that, some kind of enmity.
02:39It is always good to be with each other, and do your own job, and do a…
02:43In this film also, it's not that how many somersaults, or how many kicks he's done,
02:49or how many I'm going to do, it's all togetherness.
02:53Everything works togetherness.
02:54And films run if you are together.
02:57Yes.
02:58If the energies are together.
03:00So we've not, we, I cannot also speak for him, there's no kind of competition between
03:05us.
03:06Right.
03:07In Jordan, we had come to see you guys shoot for the song, and I just thought, you guys
03:11were shirtless, we were layered in seven layers.
03:14What a fantastic, you both kept your cool, and it was freezing.
03:17But you were like, totally okay with it.
03:20Do you think actors somewhere should be paid so much for that?
03:23That day, I had such immense respect for you two, because it's not easy to be that cold
03:27and pretend to be happy, you know, dancing atop a cliff.
03:31We were not pretending, we were happy.
03:34Yeah, we were happy.
03:36Where do you get a job, where you get a first class ticket, and you go and you fly to an
03:43amazing place like Jordan, where they had shot Star Wars, and then we get shoot there.
03:51There are 300 people taking care of you.
03:54You ask for food, you get food, garam garam khana mil jata hai, rotiya mil jati hai.
03:59So, don't you think so we should be thankful and we should be very, very happy?
04:05We were very happy about it.
04:06Actually, you were not pretending, you were not faking it.
04:08You were like totally having fun.
04:10And he was enjoying it because he loves dancing.
04:13Yeah, yeah.
04:14He loves dancing.
04:15And I think that's why sir and me were warm also, because it was like a cardio session
04:18throughout the days for us.
04:20Yeah.
04:21Right, what's the weirdest stunt that you pulled off?
04:23Because the trailer is filled with crazy stunts.
04:26Did you guys have to pep each other up and say, listen, I know it's dangerous, but we
04:29can do this together?
04:30Was there a scene that you thought was challenging?
04:33There are some love scenes inside, but abhi tak picture release nahi hai, so there's no
04:37point of us telling you about it.
04:39But the article will release only tomorrow, after the movie is out.
04:42Haan, so there are many stunts, there are helicopter stunts, there are motorbike stunts,
04:48there are ghoda chalane ka hai.
04:52And all these things are there, there are a lot of things inside.
04:55For me, I think I can speak for sir also, we're not very good at night shoots, you know,
05:02because we both sleep early.
05:03So there's a particular mission in the film, which was shot in the night.
05:09And to doing upalse, we had to do action also, when we're both half asleep.
05:13So we had to really push each other.
05:14That was the time we were very unhappy.
05:16Listen, how important are reviews for you, especially with a movie like this?
05:20Because superhero movies don't get great reviews, but they do great business.
05:24See, I'll tell you, I'll be very grateful to the critics to remember, yes, this is larger
05:32than life film.
05:34This is not a, arre aisa thodi hota hai.
05:37Yes, I'm right, you're right, absolutely right, aisa nahi hota hai.
05:41But the amount of work has gone in the film, I would just ask them and request them to
05:48please appreciate it.
05:49Even a film, an action Bollywood film, where you see Avengers ho chahiye, aisa nahi hota
05:55hai.
05:56But still, we respect the fact that what kind of work goes through.
06:00You will, when you will watch the film, you will understand what I'm trying to tell you,
06:04that there's so much of work gone into it.
06:06And especially the work done by my director, hats off to him, Ali.
06:11He has done a tremendous job.
06:14I have seen all the Hindi cinema films in my life, from Black and White till today.
06:21I can tell you this much.
06:23And I tell you with, not because it's my film, it is one of the finest action film you will
06:29No, that's amazing to know.
06:31And you both are so disciplined.
06:34Do you guys one day wake up and say, you know what, I'm having a bad day.
06:37I'm not going to do it.
06:38Does it ever happen with you too?
06:40Because I was just talking to a friend.
06:42You guys look so good.
06:43Do you exercise?
06:44I don't.
06:45No, no, you were saying?
06:46I don't exercise.
06:47As you can see from me.
06:48I was not saying it.
06:49What did you say when you get up in the morning?
06:50Is there a bad day for, gym day for both of you?
06:57Do you?
06:58Like one day, I don't want to do weights.
07:00I don't want to eat burgers.
07:01You know, I think that's the day that I think we push ourselves even harder to sort of get
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07:08Because, you know, the moment something gets boring, it's for me, at least my personal
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07:17Consistency is something that is very difficult to do.
07:22Eating the same things again, doing the same motions again, going through the same routine,
07:26exercising, waking up at the same time, following a pattern again and again, it's boring.
07:32But at the same time, that's, you know, that's when you eventually know you're doing something
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07:39For me, I'll break it.
07:40Break it?
07:41Yeah, I'll break it.
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10:11I guess doing, you know, action films primarily cater to a certain audience.
10:15Right.
10:16But that's quite a surprise.
10:17Akshay, in the Bombay trailer you said you did some weird stunts back in the, in like
10:22say, earlier in your life.
10:24And now you won't do all those dangerous stunts.
10:26Have you become more careful?
10:28Do you guys get into the set knowing that today could be like, Tom Cruise does his own
10:31stunts, right?
10:32You also try as much as you can.
10:34Do you guys always, are you very respectful of your craft while doing these stunts, like?
10:39Yes, you have to be very careful.
10:42It doesn't matter how big a stunt, anything can happen, even jumping from this table down.
10:48I have seen accidents happening.
10:50From this table, somebody jumping and he had broken the ankle and the ankle has been broken
10:56and for six months you can't walk properly.
10:59Just from here.
11:01Biggest stunt people whom I know are dead, who died because of just small accident and
11:07small mistakes.
11:09Small stunts they were doing, there was this guy, I'm forgetting his name, he was Hollywood's
11:15best action hero, this thing, stuntman.
11:19He was doing a skit and he didn't see, ek udhar khamba tha, his head hit and he died.
11:25Yeah, so you guys are aware every day.
11:27So you have to be aware of everything and every, it doesn't matter, there can be, there's
11:33a light up there, it can fall on your head.
11:36Right, did you, last question, did you ask director Alia Baz Zafar about your roles first
11:40and what was his brief to you?
11:41Because there are two heroes, right, you guys have to be different from each other.
11:45There has to be, your strength is different from his strength, usually two hero projects.
11:49What was his brief to you?
11:50What was it?
11:51He just gave us Bad Boys script.
11:52Is this Bollywood's answer to Bad Boys?
11:56Tell me that, I enjoy that movie tremendously.
11:58Actually, I'll tell you honestly, yes, I don't mind saying it is one of the best film in
12:05India has produced and this is the answer for Bad Boys.
12:08Really?
12:09Yes.
12:10We are going to get it, I think, brilliant.
12:11I can't wait for you guys to kill it on screen and I hope Prithviraj also makes a great villain.
12:16Oh, he is fantastic.
12:17He is wonderful.
12:18No, a movie is as good as its super villain, super villain, super heroes have to be both
12:22together.
12:23Well, he is more than a super hero, super villain, more than that.
12:29Okay, brilliant.
12:30Thank you so much for your time, such a pleasure, I hope the movie does well and happy Eid.
12:35I am telling you people will be so excited because we have a seven day break, so you
12:39have already guys made the money.