Mumbai: in an IANS Exclusive conversation with south superstar “jiiva” where he discusses his film 'Agathiya' and Bollywood experiences. He shares insights on working with Kabir Khan and Ranveer Singh on '83'. Jiiva also talks about playing Krish Srikanth's role and the challenges that came with it. He opens up about the South Indian film industry's reception of Bollywood actors, offering a glimpse into his journey.
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00:00I mean, Ko, Nanban, it's all my favorite films and I loved working in that films.
00:10And obviously, Ko is a very political film and Nanban is the remake of Three Idiots.
00:17And Agathiya has a lot of stunts and a lot of emotional scenes and a lot of like, you know, mind bending like, you know, scenes.
00:29So we really thought, especially the stunts was really tough.
00:34I'm sure you would have seen it in the theater.
00:36So we did some solid stunts where I get to jump and I get to throw and I get to fight.
00:43I get to fight the devil.
00:46So, yeah, so it was pretty challenging for me.
00:48The whole film, we completely believe in the content which we have created and also we completely believe in our audience.
01:01And I'm sure there will be a lot of support, especially from the kids because it has some mind bending animation where it is all done by some like, you know, we've outsourced this whole animation to some 14 other countries.
01:17So predominantly Iran did a big, you know, played a big role.
01:22And it's also done by the same technicians, which was partially worked with this film called Doctor Strange of a Hollywood film.
01:30So I'm sure the whole climax is a 15 to 16 minutes portion.
01:36In this 15 minutes portion, around five to six minutes is completely mind bending animation.
01:42I'm sure like, you know, the kids would love it.
01:45And I'm sure when the kids love it, so obviously the family will also love it.
01:55No, no, it is, I guess it is more of we've always had like, you know, Hindi actors like, you know, normally if you see South films, you have a lot of Hindi actors, especially the heroines, you know, come down to South India.
02:10If you see Aishwarya Rai, ma'am, so she, her first initial movies was Jeans.
02:15And I guess that was one of the super hit films and South Indian films also welcome a lot of character artists and a lot of villain roles.
02:26So it's this, this strategy has been there for the last 10 to 15 years, especially now after this social media and the digital world, I guess it is just enhanced.
02:41It was an amazing experience.
02:45Working with Kabir sir was one of my greatest things which happened in my career and working with Ranveer was such a delight because he's such an actor where he gives so much of good space to his co-actors.
03:01And he's also one of the most, most challenging actor where he has taken up really amazing roles like Gully Boy and like Kheelji's role.
03:14So he's, he's an inspiration to us and we so much look forward to, you know, see his movies.
03:21And also Kabir sir is one of the favorite directors of mine, even before I acted in 83.
03:28So I really loved his Bajrangi Baijaan and his Kabul Express.
03:33And I really loved the way he directs and I really loved the way he tells the story.
03:38And when I got a call from him, I was really delighted and I was really happy that I'm being a part of one of the most important films in India, where if you see around 500 to 600, if there isn't, if there's a room where there's around 500 people who know about cricket, I'm sure all the 500 people would have.
03:58Seen the film 83 and, and thanks to Kabir sir for, you know, giving me this beautiful role.
04:05And so I'm very thankful and I'm very delighted.
04:17So it was really tough to play Chika's role because he's one ball of energy where, you know, it is so tough to match his energy.
04:25So to, to match his energy, I had to really drink a lot of coffee and to bring out that role, I really had an amazing time playing Chika's role.