Join us for an exclusive interview with Piyush Mishra, the multifaceted actor, singer, and musician! In this engaging conversation, Piyush shares the inspiration behind his band, Udankhatola, and reflects on his remarkable journey from theatre to the silver screen. Discover his thoughts on acting, his nostalgic connections to Mandi House and Ballimaran, and his playful rapport with Anurag Kashyap. Don’t miss this deep dive into the mind of one of India’s most beloved artists!
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00:00Sir, if I put you on a flying saucer, where would you like to go?
00:03Moon Kothola.
00:04Monday House, Delhi.
00:06Delhi.
00:07Monday House.
00:08NST.
00:09To be honest, I enjoy acting.
00:12But I don't get to act now.
00:14Firstly, I don't have the courage to stand in a theatre.
00:16I think I don't have the courage to act in a cinema.
00:19I enjoy working with Imtiaz.
00:21I enjoy working with Imtiaz the most.
00:24I can't explain my relationship with him.
00:28It's difficult to explain.
00:29It's Anurag.
00:30It's me.
00:31Sometimes it's Banti.
00:32Sometimes it's Banti.
00:33As long as the group is a human group.
00:36As long as we think about each other.
00:38It's not just about music.
00:40There are other bonds as well.
00:41I was given a tagline for you.
00:43A rock star at 62.
00:45I said that actually, for all of us, nothing is impossible.
00:49How does it feel to be a rock star at 62?
00:51Nothing is impossible.
00:52I mean, I was working.
00:53I'm still working.
00:54I'll keep working.
00:55It doesn't matter to me.
00:58I don't care if I'm at 62 or 63.
01:00I know that I'll be at 70 someday.
01:02I know that I'll die someday.
01:04That's why I keep working.
01:06Karma is a big thing.
01:08As I said, once you do something,
01:10you can't get rid of it.
01:12I've done karma before.
01:13I'm earning from it.
01:14I'll earn from it in my next life.
01:17I made this painting when I was 12.
01:22This painting.
01:23Right?
01:24So, I made this.
01:27This was made when I was 12.
01:28This is my sculpture.
01:29I made it with my hands.
01:30This was made when I was 12.
01:32I kept doing it.
01:33I didn't get any reward for it.
01:35I made it.
01:36I read it.
01:37It was exhibited.
01:38I did a lot of things like this in my childhood.
01:42It's spreading today.
01:44I'm getting rewards.
01:45But I don't want to get trapped in these rewards.
01:47As soon as you get trapped in it,
01:49as soon as you start enjoying a lot,
01:51your rock stardom or whatever.
01:53Why are you calling me a rock star again and again?
01:56It's good.
01:57Rock stars are needed.
01:58But you'll release an album.
02:00Why did it take so many years to do this?
02:03When you yourself are saying that
02:05you like these things more than films.
02:07No, no.
02:08In that, time is...
02:10Everything happens at its time.
02:12It didn't happen before.
02:13First, I got Nishant.
02:15Then Rahul.
02:16Then other people.
02:17Then I became a band.
02:18All this was required.
02:19It was a special kind of time.
02:21The time has gone somewhere now.
02:23The time has come.
02:25I'll try to do whatever I can in this time.
02:27It's inappropriate to say that
02:29it didn't happen before.
02:31Whatever had to happen before,
02:33I was acting.
02:34I did Maqbool, Gulal, Gangs of Wasseypur,
02:36Pink, Tamasha.
02:38I liked it a lot.
02:40It was required at that time.
02:42So, I did it.
02:44That's why,
02:46work is not directly proportional
02:48to any age or time.
02:50It happens.
02:52So, it's going on.
02:54Now, Balli Maaran is going on.
02:56What are your thoughts on making a band?
02:58What would you say is the USP of Balli Maaran?
03:00What is the USP?
03:02It's a song that touches the heart.
03:04It's a song that you can hum.
03:06Songs that don't scare you.
03:08Songs from the 60s didn't scare you.
03:10You could dare to sing them.
03:12So, Balli Maaran is a song
03:14that touches the heart.
03:16It's a song that touches the heart.
03:19Balli Maaran doesn't mean to impress anyone.
03:21It's a song that tickles the heart.
03:23It's a socio-political song.
03:25It's a song that makes you snap.
03:27It's a song that makes you move forward.
03:29It doesn't mean to attack anyone.
03:31It's a song that makes you enjoy.
03:33So, in this small life,
03:35giving happiness to five people
03:37is a big thing.
03:39That's our purpose.
03:41What do you enjoy the most?
03:43You are an artist.
03:45You are a poet.
03:48You are a writer.
03:50You are an actor.
03:52Which aspect of your personality?
03:54To be honest, I enjoy acting.
03:56But, I don't get to act.
03:58I don't have the courage to stand in a theatre.
04:00Until you don't act,
04:02you don't enjoy it.
04:04To be honest,
04:06I want to act a lot.
04:08But, I don't think I can act in a cinema.
04:10Why?
04:12There are cuts.
04:14I take the first scene later.
04:17I take the first scene later.
04:19There is a hamper in the emotional graph.
04:21I enjoy acting in a theatre.
04:23But, I don't have the courage to do it in a theatre.
04:25I am very tired.
04:27I have done everything in Delhi.
04:29Whatever was possible in the performances,
04:31I have done it.
04:33So, I am very tired.
04:35But, as you are saying,
04:37we are all saying that our stories are lacking.
04:39There are no films.
04:41What do you actually feel?
04:43We are not intuitive.
04:46They are very intuitive.
04:48They keep asking new ideas.
04:50They don't pay attention to the box office.
04:52The box office becomes automatic.
04:54Malayali cinema is their idol.
04:56Anurag Kashyap watches cinema.
04:58I was with him in Lucknow the other day.
05:00He was talking in Lucknow.
05:02He said,
05:04Piyush bhai,
05:06nobody cares about your box office.
05:08A big star will earn 40-50 lakhs there.
05:10This is a start-up.
05:12This is not a chance to enter the race of a start-up.
05:15Here,
05:17there are 100 crore clubs,
05:19200 crore clubs.
05:21More than that,
05:23the scale has become
05:25which club you are entering.
05:27That's why people have gone mad.
05:29In that,
05:31there is repetition
05:33of ideas.
05:35I really liked Pushpa.
05:37What screenplay?
05:39Commercially speaking, what screenplay?
05:41I don't think
05:43that a screenplay can't be written commercially.
05:45It has been written.
05:47It was a commercial hit.
05:49So why can't we write it?
05:51There is a problem.
05:53There is a lack of ideas.
05:55And we have created the lack of ideas.
05:57We don't want to make a good film.
05:59We want to make an amateur film.
06:01Cinema was an art in 19th century.
06:03In 2000 century,
06:05it has become a blockbuster.
06:07Blockbuster is an art.
06:09This is the difference.
06:12Let's see when they will be shocked.
06:14Nowadays,
06:16an actor is not able to pull a star
06:18on his face.
06:20No matter who the actor is,
06:22the audience doesn't care
06:24whether he looks like a star or not.
06:26Yes, that's right.
06:28The form has given a lot of strength to the actors.
06:30Any size,
06:32any colour, any face,
06:34any height,
06:36an actor is priceless.
06:38Actors are big stars.
06:41Like Ranveer, he is already an actor.
06:43He has the strength to act.
06:45So,
06:47let's do it.
06:49Eventually, only actors will pull the stars.
06:51It's a misunderstanding.
06:53It's not like that.
06:55Actors had their own era.
06:57They still have it.
06:59What do you like about working with Anurag?
07:01What is your tuning with him?
07:03It's good.
07:05It's a good thing.
07:07I can't explain it to you.
07:10It's very difficult to explain.
07:12Anurag is Anurag and I am me.
07:14Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.
07:16When we meet,
07:18we have a cigarette and a cup of coffee.
07:20You go to your home and I will go to mine.
07:22The first time we met in Lucknow,
07:24we sat together for a long time.
07:26We were surprised.
07:28We sat together for a long time.
07:30That's the relationship.
07:32I enjoy working with Imtiaz.
07:34I enjoy working with Imtiaz the most.
07:36What is it?
07:39He is a rock star.
07:41He has full liberty.
07:43He is script bound.
07:45He has full liberty.
07:47That's all.
07:49What is the future of Balli Maharaj?
07:51It will go ahead.
07:53As many songs as possible.
07:55As long as he is in the home,
07:57as long as the group is human.
07:59As long as the group is human.
08:01As long as we think about each other.
08:03It's not just music.
08:05There are other bonds as well.
08:08We have to think about it.
08:10As long as we think about it,
08:12our bond will be strong.
08:14Thank you so much, sir.
08:16If I put you on a plane,
08:18where would you like to go?
08:20Delhi.
08:22NSC.
08:24Thank you so much, sir.