Mumbai: In a latest conversation with the star cast of ‘Khakhe: The Bengal Chapter’ where they share insights on maintaining passion for acting after a long career. Discusses the challenges of capturing Kolkata's essence and multiple timelines in the show. Reveals the uniqueness of the chosen locations and daily discussions with the director and Tushar on character development.
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00:00Why do you feel that you are a superstar if you see my journey in Bengal?
00:10I see that I am a debutant. I am starting in Hindi film, Hindi work.
00:15And I had kept the same approach for it.
00:19And to keep the other things rolling, the thing you love,
00:26if you have to spend time with it, then you don't know how the time has passed.
00:31This is our profession. We love it. It's our passion.
00:37You don't know.
00:44A lot of it, I'll have to give it to Tushar.
00:47Tushar Kanti Rehu is the other director for the show and also the DOP.
00:51So we had very long discussions on how we want the show to look.
00:55Because we were playing through a lot of timelines.
00:57If you've seen the audience, when they see the show, you'd realise there are a lot of timelines that we were playing through.
01:06It was a very fun experience of figuring out how every timeline kind of looks.
01:13If you see, there is a 1954 timeline, there is a 1988 timeline, there is a 1991 timeline.
01:19To make them look unique and to make them feel like you're transcended to that kind of era was the challenge.
01:28And we took it up. Now it's on to the audience, how they feel about it.
01:32Other than that, generally, in treatment, there is a couple of treatments that we've done with the show.
01:39I think when the audience sees it, let them be the judge of it.
01:44Putting out too much would be a little bit of...
01:47Drum beating is a little weird.
01:49But we enjoyed, we enjoyed the entire process.
01:51Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:52So even the way we've...
01:55We...
01:56How do you call it?
01:57Even the way we've...
01:59What's the word, man? I've forgotten the word.
02:01No problem, no problem. Don't stress.
02:02No problem, no problem.
02:06The way we've shot these two very different worlds,
02:11which is your, you know, the cop...
02:13Underbelly and cop both, yeah.
02:14The underbelly and the cop and the politics.
02:16It's very different when you see it.
02:19So I think people who like seeing the technicalities of it would love it.
02:24And our production designer Rajesh also did a great job by setting up Calcutta's backdrop everywhere in every frame.
02:32Rajesh did an amazing job. I mean, he's from the heartland of Kolkata.
02:41The greatest part of telling a story like this in a city like Calcutta is Calcutta has a very amazing quality.
02:48And the quality is that it is extremely timeless.
02:51I mean, there are parts of the city where you would reach and you would feel that you are transcended in that timeline anyways.
02:58On top of that, the added beauty is that we have an amazing production designer like Rajesh Chaudhary who did an amazing job.
03:05And we are all from Bengal. We've seen how it looks.
03:09We've had our chats with our grandparents and papa and mummy.
03:13And we know how it used to look.
03:15And those meetings have kind of fruitioned to what the show is now looking like.
03:22So everyone is greedy to show this and that.
03:25And we come from that same, you know, this thing.
03:27So that is how... It wasn't very challenging.
03:31Yes, obviously to show a city which is now 25 and showing a story from 2002 was a little bit of challenge.
03:39But it was an amazing challenge. So it did not feel like a challenge at all.
03:42It was an amazing experience. So it didn't feel like a challenge at all.
03:46And then again to add to it, Tushar's cinematography and the other DOPs that were there on the show.
03:51They were all on board and they wanted to shoot it. We wanted to shoot a period.
03:57We all knew what we were going into and what a great experience it was.
04:01But you would agree or not, if you love something, if you are passionate about something, challenges will be there.
04:06Life without challenges you cannot expect.
04:08But you would enjoy those challenges.
04:09No one. No one.
04:10The challenge is what lets you go.
04:13It's the motivation.
04:14But again if you are in passion with the profession or whatever you are doing, then you enjoy everything.
04:20The challenges also you enjoy.
04:22True, true.
04:23I think it comes back to what she was saying in the break.
04:28Because of that I have been to Kolkata ample amount of times.
04:33But for the first time, I have seen a different side of Kolkata.
04:37We have shot in such places that you see the real grass root level of Kolkata in the Bengal chapter.
04:44Which is what is getting complimented.
04:46You know the essence, like the real thing which spurs on everything else.
04:50That is in the Bengal chapter.
04:52You know during our recce's our drivers got irritated.
04:56I mean we were seeing 30-40-60 locations a day.
04:59And the driver goes, are you guys really going to shoot?
05:02Or are you just watching like this?
05:05I have also been working in the Bengal industry for 2-4 years.
05:07So I have also worked in some locations where I have never worked before.
05:10I have worked for the first time.
05:13And memo sir.
05:14With regards.
05:22The most important thing is whenever you do a new project.
05:25I think the familiarity between the people.
05:28Forget the characters, that is very important.
05:30I cannot just go ask Dibatnandan Tushar, what is Himal doing?
05:34First he has to know me.
05:36I need to know him.
05:37Because everybody has a different point of view.
05:39They both have thought Khaki the way I will never think of Khaki.
05:43You know what I mean?
05:44So I need to understand them.
05:46So as the days were progressing.
05:48We were getting that banter, we were getting that understanding.
05:51And there were many scenes where as you must have seen the show.
05:54Where me, Jeetdaan, Akanksha, we all are there.
05:57Dibatnandan was directing us.
05:58After a point of time we understood what he was thinking.
06:01That is very important.
06:03To understand what your captain wants.
06:05Because as an actor you will feel that I will pick it up from the left.
06:08He will say no, pick it up from the right.
06:10I need to believe him.
06:11Yes, pick it up from the right.
06:13Himal will pick it up from the right.
06:14He will not pick it up from the left.
06:16Small small nuances.
06:17But then they add up.
06:18And they become the beautiful cake.
06:20You know how you put the strawberry.
06:21And you put the layering on top.
06:23You put the sprinkles.
06:24So that's what the actors do.
06:26The cake design the director knows.
06:28So that is what was very easy going when it came to the process of Himal.
06:32See this is your character.
06:34They gave me a baseline.
06:35See this will be the character.
06:36This will be his behavior.
06:38And then we started growing it together.
06:40And that is what transcribed in the show.