From shooting intimate scenes in “Sacred Games” to tapping into his feminine side for “Haddi”, Nawazuddin Siddiqui reveals the inside details of his acting process. He was speaking at India Global Forum London. Brut is the culture partner for #IGFLondon2024
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00:00Whenever a barbie type character comes on the show,
00:02first tell me what are the bad things about it.
00:04When it was released, no one saw it.
00:08And whoever saw it, they abused us a lot.
00:11What kind of films do you make?
00:12Don't you guys feel ashamed?
00:15We were scared.
00:16What have we done?
00:17We have made a film.
00:24So this was a very difficult character for me in recent times.
00:28I learned a lot from the transgenders around me.
00:32They want to be a complete female.
00:35So I realized that I don't play the role of a transgender.
00:39I become a female.
00:40I will find a female within me.
00:42I will tap.
00:43Every person has it.
00:45The actor gets an opportunity to live that kind of life.
00:52I have a female character within me.
00:55You might think that I am a transgender.
00:58But I did it thinking that I am a female.
01:00I am playing the role of a female.
01:03When we started the shoot for Sacred Game,
01:06in the first week,
01:08I had a sequence with the female actors.
01:14It was an adult sequence.
01:16I used to do one sequence with them in a day.
01:19After that, I used to do it with the other actresses.
01:23Then I did the third, fourth, fifth and sixth sequence.
01:25So for a long time, I stayed away from them.
01:30I was overdoing it.
01:32So I started feeling weird.
01:35I don't know.
01:37Maybe it was some kind of a way.
01:41Because it shows that slowly,
01:44he becomes a woman.
01:46He becomes a woman and becomes his wife.
01:49He removed my darkness from within.
01:51I am Raman Raghav.
01:53Raman Raghav had a thought.
01:56He used to say,
01:58while eating and drinking,
02:00you take the risk of killing someone.
02:03You take the risk of religion.
02:05You take the risk of humanity,
02:07to kill someone.
02:09But he was such a character,
02:11that he used to say,
02:13I eat, drink, eat, drink,
02:15but I don't feel pain.
02:17It was very difficult for me to believe in this.
02:20Because I am not that kind of a person.
02:22And there is no one like that.
02:24Who can kill easily and leave normally.
02:27So to believe in this,
02:29it took me five days.
02:31When I believed in it,
02:33that yes, now I am ready for five days,
02:35that I can do this.
02:37Now I went in front of someone,
02:39as if they are looking at me.
02:41I went and stood in front of him like this.
02:44I was standing normally like this.
02:46And I thought, I can kill him too.
02:48He looked like a pawn for me.
02:50You know.
02:52He looked like a pawn to me.