“The 14-year journey has been tremendously difficult.” Taha Shah, who found overnight fame after the success of Heeramandi, recalled his journey in his debut appearance at Cannes. Brut is the official media partner for Cannes Film Festival 2024. #Cannes2024
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00:00I remember one day, about 10 years ago, I chased him out of a hotel and he was about
00:05to get in his car and I'm like, sir, please, please, I just want to work with you, give
00:07me one chance, give me one chance.
00:09And he just looked at me and he sat in his car.
00:10I made a promise to myself that I would never step into the impure streets of Tazdar Baloch
00:16Hiramandi.
00:17Finally, you know, a circle of life, he comes back and he actually takes me on as his lead
00:21character.
00:22It's nothing short of a blessing and all thanks to God.
00:24Hi, this is Taha Shabadusha and here we are talking to the incredible brute.
00:48The life has changed that French people know me.
00:51French people are Tazdar and I'm like, yeah, so I believe that it's gone global.
00:58And for me, as an actor who has been working for the last 14 years, I believe a little
01:03bit of recognition is always an encouragement and I'm getting so much.
01:07So I'm just very, very grateful and very, very humbled.
01:10Sanjay Labansali is, you know, he's an incredible, incredible filmmaker, not only a filmmaker,
01:15but he's also a great visionary and a person of great caliber.
01:19I believe that he doesn't do anything less than perfect.
01:23It's exactly what he demands from all of us and from himself.
01:26He's a maestro and many a times I believe that, you know, it's every actor's dream, first
01:31of all, to work with such a great man.
01:33And it's been an honor after so many years because I remember one day about 10 years
01:37ago, I chased him out of a hotel and he was about to get in his car and I'm like, sir,
01:41please, please, I just want to work with you.
01:43Give me one chance.
01:44Give me one chance.
01:45And he just looked at me and he sat in his car.
01:46And finally, you know, a circle of life, he comes back and he actually takes me on as
01:51his lead character.
01:52It's nothing short of a blessing and all thanks to God.
01:54Of course, I've been getting a lot of kind and really just blessed messages, you know,
02:01comparing me to some really great actors, number one.
02:04Besides that, you know, they're saying that, you know, we're so glad that after 14 years
02:08of hard work and persistence and patience, your hard work is finally paying off and we're
02:12here to support you.
02:17There's two ways.
02:18There's number one is that you want to become a star, right?
02:22Number two is that you actually love the craft of acting.
02:25So whoever loves the craft of acting, it doesn't matter where you reach as long as you keep
02:31acting, right?
02:33And acting in its totality is not just about the craft.
02:39Again, one part of it is the craft, but the rest of it is about how you handle yourself,
02:44how you talk to people, how you interact with people, how you build your network, how
02:49much hard work you're not only willing to put in your acting, but besides that, such
02:53as our industry demands dance, demands you to do action, demands a lot of things from
02:58you.
02:59So are you willing to go through the pain?
03:00You know, that's number one that people need to ask themselves, right?
03:03I've heard of people coming in for a year, two years, and they're like, oh, it didn't
03:07happen.
03:08Now I need to go back.
03:09It doesn't work that way.
03:10You know, there can't be a plan B.
03:13There cannot be a plan B. If you have a plan B, you are 100% setting yourself up for failure,
03:19all right?
03:20There's only plan A. That's number one.
03:22Besides that, I would like to say the 14-year journey has been tremendously difficult, all
03:28right?
03:29And as far as getting auditions are concerned, I believe from that movie Guru, where Abhishek
03:36Bachchan had said the line, he said that where I need to bend, I'll bend, where I need to
03:40beg, I'll beg, and where I need to break the door, I'll break the door, but all I need
03:43to do is get inside, you know?
03:45So you have to have that kind of mentality, and you really need to really give up and
03:50sacrifice everything, all the glamour which is around it.
03:54You know, if you really want to become something, you can't be thinking of, I want to go out,
03:58I want to meet this boy, I want to meet this girl, I want to go out for a cafe, I want
04:03to chill out.
04:04There's no chilling out, you know?
04:06Give up all of that, you know, and then you might become something.