Latestly Catches Up With 'Fukrey 3' Trio Pulkit Samrat, Varun Sharma And Richa Chadha To Know What Makes 'Fukrey' Franchise A Success Like No Other. In This Exclusive Chat, The 'Fukrey' Gang Decodes The Success Of The Popular Franchise And How The Third Instalment Has Turned Out To Be Funnier And Crazier!
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00:04 Whatever you said, it's all true.
00:06 I didn't say anything.
00:07 I just said I won't say Ice Cube.
00:09 As a franchise, I think three times more crazy, three times more wild and three times more Fukra.
00:14 So that's all. We had a blast here.
00:17 So I've watched it till now.
00:19 They all are very very happy.
00:21 They're calling it a laugh riot.
00:23 They're calling it the entertainer of the year.
00:26 So, it's just gratitude man.
00:29 It's just gratitude.
00:30 It is not an easy expectation to kind of fulfil.
00:34 Because you're coming with a preconceived notion that they'll come and laugh as soon as they come.
00:39 Earlier people used to ask us what does Fukre mean?
00:42 What does Fukre mean?
00:43 We made a whole song for it.
00:45 Welcome to LatestLee. Joining me now Varun, Pulkit and Richa to talk about their film Fukre 3.
00:50 But I'm still confused in my head what my introduction is going to be like.
00:54 What my one liner or opener is going to be like.
00:57 And I'm still confused how I'm going to break the ice.
01:00 Did I say break the ice?
01:02 Yes, Fukre.
01:04 I'm listening to you. I shouldn't have said break the ice.
01:06 Break the ice, ice cube.
01:08 Ice cube.
01:09 I shouldn't have said ice cube.
01:10 If you haven't got the joke, you must watch the trailer once again.
01:14 My name is Pratham. Welcome to LatestLee once again.
01:18 Thank you.
01:19 What's happening is that the level of your laughter is 1, 2, 3.
01:25 So, does the pressure build? Does it feel good? What happens in your mind?
01:29 Whatever you said happens.
01:31 I didn't say anything. I just said I won't say ice cube.
01:34 The pressure builds and the fun comes from it.
01:37 And obviously there's a lot of expectation from the audience for the third part.
01:42 You know, they've loved the first and the second.
01:45 So, obviously they're hoping a lot of more entertainment in the third part.
01:48 And we feel that this one is three times more wackier than you know as a franchise.
01:54 I think three times more crazier, three times more wild and three times more Fukra.
01:58 So, that's all. We had a blast here.
02:01 He said it right? Three times, three times, three times.
02:04 He knows how to plug all those things. He's absolutely pro at it.
02:08 He said it three times.
02:10 But yeah, the fun is actually the scale is bigger.
02:13 There is a lot more fun. It's wackier. It's crazier.
02:16 It's much more bizarre.
02:18 But the soul is the same. The heart is at the right place.
02:21 And the innocence is still intact.
02:23 And that is why people are liking it.
02:25 You know, with God's grace, the reviews have been great.
02:31 We're getting a good number of stars.
02:33 So, yeah, the biggest stars are the reviews right now.
02:36 And people are happy.
02:38 Who's who I've watched till now, they all are very, very happy.
02:41 They have been like, they're calling it a laugh riot.
02:44 They're calling it the entertainer of the year.
02:47 So, yeah, it's just gratitude, man. It's just gratitude.
02:51 Techa, tell me, there's one success.
02:54 And then there's confidence after the second success.
02:57 And then there's a little uncertainty after the third.
03:00 Like, will it match? If it doesn't, how will it match?
03:04 No, it will match.
03:06 I think it will exceed expectations of the second part.
03:09 And that's because I believe that whatever happened in between,
03:12 whatever time we got,
03:14 the audience of the film has grown organically.
03:17 And apart from that, there was an animated show made for children
03:20 called Phukra Boys by Discovery Kids.
03:23 I think it's on Netflix now.
03:25 So, even those kids have grown up now,
03:27 the ones who are watching it in the last three, four years.
03:29 It's again started running. It's again, they've started it again.
03:32 So, there's some amount of relatability, I think.
03:34 And people want to watch a good comedy.
03:37 They want to be able to go out with the whole family and watch something light, entertaining.
03:41 A lot of people after the screening told us,
03:43 "I was in tension and then my mood was fresh."
03:47 That's what you want with comedy.
03:49 Varun, you tell us.
03:51 People know you as an ex-comedy actor.
03:54 In that context, in that zone.
03:57 So, when you walk into this, the third installment,
04:00 it's more like homecoming.
04:02 But at the same time, how do you make your craft better?
04:06 I don't know what's happening. I'm sorry.
04:08 We were commenting on each other's hair. Sorry.
04:11 Varun, you see.
04:13 Your hair is very nice.
04:15 So, this hair thing or comedy thing,
04:17 how will I present it differently this time?
04:20 How does it work?
04:22 I think, Chucha was in the first film.
04:26 When it was in the second.
04:28 In fact, it was my first film.
04:30 It was my debut film. I was 22 when I started.
04:34 I was very innocent, raw,
04:36 I didn't have any brains, I didn't know anything.
04:38 I was having fun.
04:40 A lot of times, my friends, especially my close friends,
04:44 they tell me, "Chucha is in your veins.
04:47 You'll do it quickly. It'll be fun. It'll be easy."
04:50 It wasn't easy.
04:51 It's been 10 years.
04:53 We're coming with the third part.
04:55 You mature mentally.
04:57 I've done 14 films in that time span.
05:01 In these 10 years.
05:03 So, you get an experience.
05:05 You have more technical knowledge.
05:08 You become more aware of things.
05:10 You understand business a little.
05:13 You grow as an individual.
05:15 For the third part,
05:17 now when we're doing it again,
05:19 I have to go back to the Chucha that I was in 2012.
05:23 Because the second part is an extension of the first.
05:27 The third is the extension of the second part.
05:30 In the Phukre universe,
05:32 in the Phukre world,
05:33 there's a time frame.
05:35 It's a story of 1-1.5 years.
05:37 Overall, of all three films.
05:39 Those 10 years are in real life.
05:41 In real life, they're in between 1-2 years.
05:43 So, the innocence, the rawness,
05:45 the immaturity of the character
05:48 is the same as it was in 2012 when we started doing it.
05:52 So, I think the biggest process for me
05:55 was to unlearn 10 years of life.
05:58 And to go back and be absolutely raw.
06:01 And, you know,
06:02 you have to remove all that you've learnt.
06:04 That was my process in this.
06:06 And,
06:08 I think, like it's already there,
06:10 people have expectations.
06:12 People have expectations.
06:13 There are Phukres, they'll come and make us laugh.
06:15 It is not an easy expectation to fulfil.
06:19 Because you're coming with a preconceived notion
06:22 that they'll come and make us laugh.
06:24 We really hope,
06:25 and the entire credit goes to Mirixer,
06:27 for blending the entire story so beautifully.
06:31 That, and the dialogues, and the punches,
06:33 and the timing and everything.
06:35 So that we're able to make people laugh.
06:37 We've been seeing screenings,
06:40 we've been seeing audience reactions.
06:42 And with the grace of God,
06:43 what we felt,
06:44 we all hope that, you know,
06:46 they like it as much as they liked the first and the second.
06:49 I think, with the grace of God,
06:50 one beautiful thing is happening
06:51 that it's surpassing the first and the second one.
06:54 People are enjoying it even more.
06:55 They're laughing.
06:56 And, you know, we are surpassing the expectation.
07:00 So, we are very happy,
07:01 and we are very content,
07:02 and very grateful that that's happening.
07:04 Pulkit, body percentage 13 to 12 to 11.
07:07 In three installments, you're shrinking.
07:09 You're looking better and fitter.
07:11 Oh, not shrinking. He's giving me his.
07:13 He's giving. He's going there.
07:15 So, the thing is, this is the body.
07:17 But, when the actor mentally prepares,
07:20 it's possible that in the first installment,
07:22 you're buddies and you're raw, as he said.
07:24 In the second installment,
07:25 perhaps the chemistry grows and gets better.
07:27 In the third installment,
07:29 something may go wrong as well,
07:30 I don't know, as an actor.
07:32 But, as a professional,
07:34 I'm just assuming, Richa is making faces, okay.
07:36 But, as an actor...
07:38 I'm done.
07:39 Oh.
07:40 Every actor has a fight.
07:42 No, so that equation keeps running.
07:45 That's human dynamics.
07:46 So, keeping that aside,
07:48 or nourishing it,
07:50 how do you see it?
07:52 Sir, tell us.
07:53 You know, probably on some other set,
07:55 I can answer this in a way that you can agree with.
07:59 But, on this particular set,
08:01 this is family, man.
08:02 Yeah.
08:03 This is literally family.
08:04 If we have any complaints against each other,
08:07 we sit face to face, talk and resolve it.
08:10 There is nothing that we keep a grudge in our hearts,
08:12 or keep anything in our hearts.
08:14 That's the best thing about us sharing that bond,
08:18 that we have no inhibitions between us.
08:21 We can be very clear, very blunt,
08:23 very brutal and very honest with each other.
08:26 Even if it's during the shot,
08:28 that your punch didn't land,
08:30 you can take another shot.
08:31 He will very happily,
08:33 he will take it once more,
08:35 not only because he's like,
08:37 "Okay, didn't I do well?"
08:40 But also because,
08:41 "Pulkit said it's not good."
08:43 So, it's possible that it's not good.
08:44 "It was fine according to me."
08:45 But, maybe it wasn't fine according to him.
08:47 "So, maybe he didn't sit."
08:48 "I'll try again."
08:50 Same I will do, same she will do.
08:52 So, we have zero inhibitions,
08:54 and we share everything under the sky with each other.
08:57 Starting with food.
08:58 We are cousins, right?
09:00 Yes, right?
09:01 Not Richa, she's our sister-in-law.
09:02 Richa, I would like to ask you,
09:04 one is that you are either in this intense zone,
09:07 where there is too much for the intellect to process,
09:11 and then you are in this spook-ro zone.
09:13 And in this spook-ro zone,
09:18 is there a switch that goes on and off?
09:22 Especially given this franchise.
09:24 Thank you so much.
09:26 I want to just thank you, first of all,
09:28 for noticing my range. Thank you.
09:30 And secondly, I want to say,
09:32 I'm much happier here than in a very intense film.
09:35 Because, you know, it takes a toll on your own mind also,
09:38 when you're doing very intense, very serious characters.
09:41 But, they say comedy is a serious business.
09:42 Just because your film is comic,
09:43 doesn't necessarily mean the atmosphere and the vibe has to be comic.
09:46 However, if I have to cry on scene,
09:50 and I have to be depressed,
09:52 and I have to be tragic,
09:53 which I am playing a very tragic part in something I'm doing next,
09:56 you'll see it.
09:57 You have to be in that zone and sort of churn,
10:00 and you have to take in that pain.
10:03 You have to drown yourself in that pain,
10:05 and recite poetry for your broken heart.
10:08 So, I'm a happy person.
10:11 I love being on a comedy set.
10:13 And I feel like what comedy can communicate,
10:15 sometimes I feel like tragic stuff can't fully do that.
10:20 And having said that,
10:23 I enjoy doing comedy more than anything else.
10:26 Because, somewhere or the other,
10:27 it's a bit better for mental health.
10:29 It really is.
10:30 To be a part of a comedy.
10:32 And of course, it's not easy to pull off.
10:33 And thanks, thank you so much for giving that hygiene to the mental space.
10:37 Because that's what comedy does.
10:38 Yeah.
10:39 It makes you laugh, makes you relax for a little while.
10:41 It's important.
10:42 Yeah.
10:43 Of course, coming back to part three,
10:45 do you discuss with your directors,
10:47 what is it that's going to be in store for me this time around?
10:51 Or are we just going to trudge along with what we have left at part two?
10:55 What the process is like, what the equation is like,
10:57 what the study material is like?
10:59 Yeah, basically, Brik is a very one-man team kind of a person.
11:04 Yeah.
11:05 He believes so much in the subject,
11:07 and he believes so much in this world,
11:09 that him and Vipul together just come out with all the wacky ideas possible.
11:14 They don't need us.
11:15 They kind of just throw at the producers.
11:18 They all jam together,
11:20 and they come with a certain thing,
11:22 that this is it, now let's tell the actors.
11:24 Then they come to us, they narrate us the thing.
11:27 And if we have any sort of feedback, any sort of apprehensions,
11:30 and any sort of discussion,
11:32 the floor is open for any sort of discussion.
11:34 And we discuss things,
11:36 we do that jiggle bandhi,
11:39 and the product is ready to go on the floor.
11:41 That's the basic, basic process.
11:43 He used the word feedback, I love that word.
11:45 Because not very often you see the directors and the actors,
11:49 there's this kind of osmosis and idea exchange.
11:52 Have you ever been on set?
11:54 I have seen it, but this is your atmosphere.
11:56 No, it's not like that.
11:57 You know, nowadays, genuinely,
11:59 I understand where you're coming from.
12:01 You're not totally not correct also.
12:04 But I would like to put this across,
12:07 that a lot of directors, majority of directors,
12:10 like, jitna bhi hard task master ho bhi,
12:15 he's always open to feedback from any department on the set.
12:19 Same is with any other director that I have personally worked with,
12:23 and I'm sure we also keep discussing with each other,
12:26 ki tumhara kaam kaisa ho raha hai, wo set pe kaisa chala, kaisa chala.
12:29 None of the directors are so anal about their,
12:32 you know, their writing or their scene,
12:36 that they do not allow you to flow with the character
12:40 or improvise on set or throw a feedback at them.
12:44 Wo finally usko accept karein nahin karein, it's their choice,
12:47 and it should be their choice because it's their story,
12:49 it's their storytelling, it's their world that they're portraying.
12:52 But they're very, very accommodating,
12:54 and that is what makes filmmaking filmmaking.
12:57 True. Correct.
12:58 Otherwise, it would be called film manufacturing.
13:01 Ki yeh ek mould pakadha diya, aap nikal ke aajana,
13:03 aap bani ban jaoge, aap jucha ban jaoge, aap bholi ban jaoge.
13:06 That's it.
13:07 But usme essence aur soul tabhi aayegi jab yeh jugal bandhi hoti hai,
13:11 and that everybody understands.
13:12 The broader question therefore was,
13:14 ki because this is a third installment,
13:16 and you know your material like, backward, onward, like your own back,
13:20 so you have writing right in front of you, which is excellent.
13:24 But at the same time, just because you know the story and the backstory so well,
13:28 do you give your inputs and say, "Okay, let's do this, and I stand by this."
13:32 Oh, a lot. A lot.
13:34 Of course that happens.
13:35 But, I would like to say one thing,
13:38 as you said that it's been 10 years, you know your characters and all that.
13:41 I think Mrig Sir and Vipul,
13:45 I think they, what you see of the characters that you love,
13:50 I think a lot of it is driven from him.
13:56 Like, he's the OG fukra.
13:58 So, we know our characters, I think he knows it way more beyond
14:01 of what we can execute, what we can kind of do it,
14:05 and what we are capable of.
14:07 You know, I think so that happens.
14:10 And, to answer your question, of course yes.
14:14 There are certain feedbacks,
14:16 you know once you see the film, there are certain punches that you laugh at.
14:20 It is all improvisation.
14:22 It is all improvisation.
14:23 So, it is not that this is the script, this is the line, this is the pause,
14:27 this is the full stop.
14:28 Yes, in performance, many times we follow the timing.
14:32 But, while doing it, you understand something and you say,
14:36 it's a very open ground, he's a very open director that he'll accept it and
14:40 it's working for the film only at the end of the day.
14:42 So, it's a collective effort like that.
14:44 There are a lot of improvisations happen.
14:46 Like, in the first part, I don't know if you've seen the first part,
14:50 there is a sequence when Chucha is running, he falls down.
14:54 And, it became a really iconic thing when he gets up and he says,
14:58 "Bhai, Kampa!"
14:59 That is an improvisation.
15:01 That is Mriksa's improvisation only.
15:03 That was never in the script.
15:05 It came out right then and there and we executed it.
15:08 And, after that, once the film came out, it became like a thing.
15:12 People laughed about it, they referred to it and all that.
15:14 So, it's a blend ofтАж
15:16 Any references that you remember that came from your side?
15:20 I'll just tell you one thing.
15:21 This is the best answer to your question.
15:23 In our Phukret 3, so much feedback must have come from Ali.
15:28 He's not even there in the film.
15:30 But, we all, Mrik, Vibhul, Ritesh, Farhan, they are all open to feedback from anybody.
15:38 So, there is so much feedback that has come from Ali as well because he knew the script.
15:42 How lovely.
15:43 So, you know, this is how we work.
15:45 And, that is why it is so addictive to work in such an environment.
15:48 It's probably the best team to work with.
15:52 How would you see the evolution of the term Phukret from part 1 to part 2 to part 3?
15:57 In the first one, people were asking us what does Phukret mean?
16:00 What does Phukret mean?
16:01 We made a song for it.
16:04 Phuk Phuk Phukret Phuk Phuk Phuk Phuk.
16:06 Literally to explain what Phukret is.
16:10 To explain.
16:12 In the second episode, people got to know what it is.
16:16 In today's date, people are starting to call each other Phukret.
16:20 Now, they use it as a term.
16:22 I think, probably, in some time, it will come in the Oxford dictionary as well.
16:26 That actually came, bro.
16:28 In the second part.
16:29 That was Jugaad.
16:31 Sorry, sorry.
16:32 That was Jugaad.
16:33 Jugaad came.
16:34 Sorry, sorry.
16:35 Are you saying something?
16:36 No, no. I was saying this only.
16:37 Jugaad.
16:38 It came in Oxford dictionary.
16:39 So, going forward, is there now a burden in part 4?
16:43 What else will you do?
16:44 Or will you stop here and say, "No, we won't do it."
16:47 What will you do?
16:48 We really hope that Phukret 3 gets a lot of love.
16:52 Like the first and the second.
16:54 And we really hope.
16:55 And as you said, Phukret 4, with the grace of God, if it happens.
16:59 And we really hope and pray that it does.
17:01 It's homecoming for all of us.
17:02 Correct.
17:03 And we can't wait for it.
17:05 My last question and very important one.
17:07 What has Phukret, the franchise, has taught you so that you take your comic or comic timing
17:13 or comedy skills to another level when you enter a new project?
17:17 I think for me, it's honesty.
17:20 Make people laugh with a lot of honesty.
17:24 No, no. It's fine.
17:26 No, no. Sorry.
17:27 Should I go home?
17:28 No, no. It's okay.
17:29 Should I go?
17:30 Should I go?
17:31 What Phukret has taught me is that you don't need to make funny faces or do funny things
17:37 in order to.
17:38 You can also deliver a line in a deadpan, lethal way and still it will land funny if the dialogue is funny.
17:45 That's what I have learnt from Phukret.
17:47 Someone who looks as good as him, what have you learnt?
17:50 I have learnt basically just being true to the situation.
17:54 Yeah.
17:55 You know, it is all taken care of.
17:57 You don't need to take the burden that this is a joke and I have to land this punchline.
18:02 No.
18:03 You just have to be very matter of fact about it.
18:06 That this is the situation and this is what is happening and my character, this character,
18:11 Honey, is reacting to this situation and because the situation is so bizarre and funny,
18:18 the character will just very honestly, very organically react to it.
18:23 And that is all that is needed from you as an actor to understand the situation that you are in.
18:28 Not many films have come this far, this long with their respective franchise.
18:34 Part one could be good, part two may have some issues but you have been absolutely consistent
18:40 and have been delivering and have been getting fabulous reviews as well.
18:45 I hope you have achieved what you wanted to achieve, not just with part three but with the franchisee.
18:50 Thank you.
18:51 Thank you so much.
18:53 Thank you.
18:54 [BEEP]
18:55 (whooshing)