“They didn’t want it to be like a typical negative character.” Manisha Koirala revealed why the climax of Dil Se was changed to the hero's death scene.
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00:00There's no way they would have become one.
00:03Not in death, not in life.
00:05Everybody was trying to achieve that his love was so intense for her.
00:11But in the original version, he lets her die.
00:14But they change at the last minute.
00:15It didn't seem credible to me.
00:21And Dil Se?
00:22Again, Dil Se…
00:23A terrorist.
00:24Yeah, I know.
00:25Or a militant.
00:26Not so much a…
00:27Yeah, but a terrorist.
00:28Militant, terrorist.
00:29Suicide bomber.
00:30Yeah, exactly.
00:32So basically, I was supposed to do a film with Ramgopal Verma.
00:41And this came to me…
00:42I think they had other people in mind and this came to me towards later.
00:48But I was very…
00:50As an artist, I wanted to again explore the areas that I've never explored.
00:56So when he said, Manisha, you will be playing a terrorist.
01:01But I don't want you to play that…
01:03You don't want to do what they show you to be hard and all that.
01:10You want to be like a normal girl, be like yourself.
01:14But his pain, his anger, it has reached that point, it has gone above reasonable reasons.
01:26And for me, as an artist, that was a great opportunity to be able to explore the negativity,
01:34to explore the negative side of the character.
01:37Because I've always played a good character and, you know, lovable, good.
01:44And this was a little different.
01:46And it was different because they didn't want me to play the typical negative character.
01:53You don't want to do that.
01:55So, I liked it that in that too, I…
02:00And it also made us rethink as viewers and watchers.
02:04Because in this movie, unlike other Bollywood movies, cause triumphed over love.
02:12Cause became more important than love towards an individual.
02:18So it made people rethink that, oh my God, that's also possible.
02:22But also in the original script that we… was there, we had agreed on, both… for the
02:35both guys, for the terrorist and for the hero, the cause is larger.
02:43In the sense, she wants, she's going anyways to mutilate herself and this thing.
02:53And he actually go… in the present version, he goes and he also dies.
03:01But in the original version, he lets her die.
03:05That's more credible.
03:06He says, if you're good for this thing, cause, even my cause is larger.
03:12So that somehow was agreeable to all of us.
03:15But they changed at the last minute and somehow, it didn't seem credible to me.
03:19Everybody was trying to achieve that his love was so intense for her.
03:26At the same time, he couldn't allow her to go for it, nor allow to live without her.
03:35So he kind of goes and succumbs to that.
03:38Basically stops her, but he also dies in that.
03:42So it was like a big sacrifice on his end, aisa tha.
03:47Wo koshish kar rahe the, lekin original mein, wo nahi tha.
03:50What do you think, it would have been better?
03:53That time only itself, I had liked the original.
03:56That time itself, I said, because unka, there's no way they would have become one.
04:02Not in death, not in life, they both are on a different, this thing.
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