Discover the untold stories behind 'Road' and delve into Manoj Bajpayee's personal journey with Lehren's flashback interview on his 55th birthday. Candid reflections await on co-stars Vivek Oberoi, Antara Mali, and more.
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00:00 I found it quite exciting because this is the kind of film which has never been done.
00:06 This is the kind of experiment which nobody dared to do.
00:09 If you are going through some kind of confusion, some kind of conflict in getting the scene
00:13 right, so I would say that if I get a chance to direct a film, I pray to God that please
00:20 get me Mr. Ram Gopal Armar too.
00:22 When you think of road, when you think of journey, when you think of travelling, you
00:26 never know which vehicle you will meet, which person you will meet and which speed breaker
00:32 you will meet.
00:33 So, drive carefully.
00:34 I have taken a break of seven months because somewhere I was bored of doing this, we are
00:52 bored of acting every day and I want to take a break also and at the same time I was not
00:58 getting offers which were exciting.
01:01 So, I was in Delhi for some time, I was in my village for some time, in Bombay for some
01:07 time but not interacting much with the industry and at the same time some were waiting for
01:12 the right projects to come to me and it suddenly so happened that it was worth waiting.
01:21 What happened, Ramu gave me a call and he asked me to meet him and when I met him, he
01:28 narrated me this story, the screenplay of the film and I found it quite exciting because
01:35 this is the film, this is the kind of film which has never been done.
01:39 This is the kind of experiment which nobody dared to do or nobody thought of doing it.
01:44 It has thrill all the time, it has humour all the time, it has romance all the time.
01:51 At the same time, it is a very unique film, very strange kind of experiment but still
01:57 it has all the elements of mainstream.
02:01 If you ask any actor to give you the story of the film, it is very short because it is
02:10 a film of happenings, happenings are there but the storyline will be very short.
02:17 If I tell you that it is about a boy and a girl and they are on a journey and a person
02:26 takes a lift and the roller coaster happens and the thrill happens.
02:34 So it is a very short storyline you will come to hear but only thing is we try to explore
02:43 the happenings, the mood of the person who has taken the lift, the interaction of the
02:49 person who has taken the lift, the interaction with the girl is the journey of the relationship
02:54 which happens on the road and that is how we reach the climax.
03:01 So it is about audience exploring this person, the girl exploring the person and the boy
03:08 exploring the stranger.
03:10 It is about exploration in journey because when you are driving to Pune or you are driving
03:19 to Jaipur from Delhi or if you are driving to Manali from Delhi, you keep meeting people
03:27 whom you don't know and their reactions, their behavioural pattern is completely different
03:33 from each other.
03:36 So it is a film of happenings, it is a film of exploration, it is a film of relationship
03:42 which happens on the road and nowhere else.
03:46 Character which I have played is completely unpredictable.
03:52 He comes from a segment of the society which is not acceptable to normal people but he
03:59 is a very normal guy.
04:01 He is stylish, he doesn't get excited so easily, he has the ability to keep you in good humour,
04:09 he is a romantic, he is an emotional person.
04:13 Yes he has some odds and those odds are very irritating, sometimes very frightening, sometimes
04:20 very exciting and you find him quite an interesting person in the beginning because he is somebody
04:28 who doesn't let you get bored of journey.
04:32 He is somebody who can keep you in good humour all the time.
04:36 So yes it has its good and bad points.
04:40 Rajat, I know him since a long time.
04:49 Much before Pyar Tune Kya Kiya, we used to party together and we always thought of making
04:56 a film with each other.
04:57 But I never thought that Mr. Ram Gopal Varma would get impressed with him and give him
05:00 Pyar Tune Kya Kiya.
05:04 From Pyar Tune Kya Kiya to Road I would say it is an amazing leap in his growth.
05:09 He improved quite a lot as a director.
05:12 He proved himself in Pyar Tune Kya Kiya itself but Road is a very difficult movie to make
05:19 and then you have a producer who is known for his creative genius, Mr. Ram Gopal Varma.
05:26 So definitely you will be given complete freedom and liberty from his side as a creative person
05:35 and as a producer.
05:36 At the same time you have this added advantage that his contribution will be immense.
05:44 You will always be guarded by him.
05:46 He is there to support you, to back you up if you are going through some kind of confusion,
05:51 some kind of conflict in getting the scene right.
05:54 So I would say that if I get a chance to direct a film, I will pray that I get a producer
06:00 like him.
06:01 I hope, I pray to God that please get me Mr. Ram Gopal Varma to produce my film so that
06:09 I will be guarded completely.
06:10 He will be there to make sure that the film goes on the right track, goes on the right
06:17 road if you look at it.
06:19 Considering that you are living in Andhra, how did you meet Mr. Ram Gopal Varma?
06:27 Andhra I have done a Telugu film which Ramu himself has directed right after Satya.
06:34 We shot the film in 55-60 days and we were somewhere in Andhra Pradesh, in some village
06:40 together.
06:42 So we were quite parallel with each other.
06:44 There was no need to know each other.
06:47 We already known each other in the past.
06:49 We worked quite well in that film, on screen and off screen.
06:56 And she is a fabulous actress.
06:59 She has great body language.
07:01 She grasps the character very easily.
07:06 She is somewhere I would say, she is very intelligent.
07:09 She doesn't let you know that she got the character right and she surprises you on the
07:13 set.
07:14 Vivek, I have seen his film Company.
07:18 And this film has released, this film has happened much before the Company's release.
07:26 For me it was like knowing the person whom Ramu admired quite a lot.
07:33 And I always had complete trust in Ramu's judgement.
07:37 If his judgement about me was right, I didn't have any reason not to trust his judgement
07:45 about Vivek.
07:47 And I found him a very, very exciting actor.
07:53 His approach is right.
07:54 His focus is right.
07:55 He is too sincere a person as an actor.
08:02 And his ability to get the character is right.
08:07 I think if he just continues like this, I won't be surprised if he achieves what he
08:14 wants to achieve.
08:15 What type of music is there in Road?
08:16 The title suggests pacing music or that type of music?
08:24 Road doesn't mean pace.
08:26 Road means obstacle and yes, pace definitely.
08:31 Obstacles most of the time.
08:33 It means, it has a very unpredictable nature attached with it.
08:44 And when you talk, when you think of Road, when you think of journey, when you think
08:48 of travelling, you never know which vehicle you will meet, which person you will meet
08:54 and which speed breaker you will meet.
08:57 So drive carefully.
09:03 I like Sandesh's album which was released quite a long back, Piya Basanti Re.
09:10 There's a certain amount of classical training he shows and he shows quite a lot of possibility
09:17 as a music director.
09:23 And in this film he got immense possibility to explore different, different kind of music
09:32 because this film is unpredictable.
09:33 So music had to be unpredictable.
09:37 And every song is completely different from the other song because if I am singing definitely
09:45 my character will sing a different way and the lines will be different and composition
09:51 will be different.
09:52 If Vivekananda is singing, their lines and their composition will be different.
09:57 If there is a background song, then definitely it will be a different kind of composition.
10:05 Ramu has thrown quite a big challenge, quite a tough challenge on Sandesh and I think he
10:10 has done quite a great job.
10:12 I love two, three songs in this film.
10:15 I like the title song which is sung by Gary Loyer, "Road ke har mod pe, dekho toh gaur
10:23 se".
10:24 I love the song.
10:25 It has the, it has the quality of blue music.
10:30 It haunts you.
10:31 It has the haunting nature.
10:34 And then I love Vivekananda's song, "Makmali".
10:38 I love that song which is coming on television.
10:43 And then definitely I like my song, it's "Pehli Nazar Mein Dar Gayi Thi" which is written
10:49 by Makrandesh Pandey, my friend.
10:50 He is from theatre.
10:52 For the first time he has written a song for a film.
10:56 And then there is one number which is, which is completely Rajasthani, "Nikal Le Bhaiye".
11:06 I feel people, that song will get people dancing and I'm quite sure about it.
11:13 This is Manoj Bajpayee.
11:14 You're watching me on Lehren.
11:15 Perfect?
11:16 Okay, sir.
11:17 Thank you very much.
11:19 Thank you.
11:20 Thank you very much.
11:20 Thank you.
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