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00:00I think the time has come to talk about the cinematic brilliance of this film.
00:06Every filmmaker does research.
00:11This will be one of the finest films made on any political subject, cinematically.
00:19When we talk about JFK in international cinema,
00:24we should take this film to the next level.
00:34Now watch the film, how a girl, in this case,
00:39she works so effortlessly that you can't imagine how hard she works.
00:46Today when you see Indira Gandhi on screen,
00:49we feel that she has done it.
00:53But it's not that easy.
00:56The internal approach, the external approach,
01:02directing the entire film, acting,
01:05I think she is one of the finest directors that I have worked with.
01:09Thank you so much. You have been so kind always.
01:12I must say that she is the hero of my film.
01:17If I am an anti-hero, she is the hero.
01:20It was very important for me that if Anupamji didn't make the film,
01:25I wouldn't have made the film.
01:27Because to have his personality on screen,
01:31and the honesty on his face,
01:36you will understand that at this time,
01:40who else can be J Prakash Narayan.
01:43He is such a great actor.
01:45Everyone knows him in politics,
01:48but he too was pushed into the darkness of anonymity.
01:53No one allowed him to come out.
01:56He did it with other leaders.
01:59We learn this from the emergency,
02:02that how many great leaders were there,
02:04whose names we don't even know.
02:06And he was our hero.
02:08I was a student of drama school.
02:10He became the new hero of the youth of that time.
02:15He represented honesty,
02:18a certain amount of class,
02:21a certain amount of bravery.
02:24He represented that.
02:26There is a very interesting line in your film.
02:29J Prakash Narayan is in jail.
02:31Even he knows who put him in jail.
02:34Indira Gandhi put the opposition in jail.
02:36And he is writing a letter to her.
02:38How beautiful democracy was at that time.
02:42Now there is a protest going on.
02:45What did you think about it?
02:47I think dignity was very important at that time.
02:51The dignity with which J Prakash Narayan raised the issue,
02:56I think it showed his own class.
03:01And you know, we have a documented letter of J Prakash Narayan.
03:06You will get it available.
03:08He wrote such a beautiful letter to the Prime Minister.
03:11I can't tell you how many pages he wrote.
03:15He wrote 8-9 pages.
03:17At that time he used to write a lot of letters to each other.
03:20But if you read the letter of 8-9 pages,
03:22you will be so surprised.
03:24Such a serious situation.
03:27He was in such a remand at that time.
03:31You can imagine,
03:33George Fernandes had broken his bones.
03:36And he endured it all his life.
03:39And if J Prakash Narayan died at that time,
03:43it was because of torture in the jail.
03:46So at that time,
03:49you can imagine,
03:51he wrote such a beautiful letter to the Prime Minister and the Constitution.
04:00If you read those 9 words,
04:02you will shed tears.
04:04He is explaining everything so well.
04:06And there is no bitterness anywhere.
04:09He was such a great personality.
04:12Your looks are also being praised.
04:14You have done a lot of work on your voice too.
04:17Who should be credited for this?
04:19Our prosthetic artist, David,
04:24he is right now the best in the world.
04:27He won an Oscar in Darkest Hour.
04:29Gary Oldman's transformation in Churchill.
04:32We are a small country.
04:35We have a small budget.
04:37We cannot make films at such a big level.
04:41And especially for new directors, it is difficult.
04:44And if it is a political drama,
04:46or a story of an old woman,
04:48it is even less for that.
04:50But I would say,
04:52we have left no stone unturned in any department.
04:55Whether it is photography,
04:57even in the smallest of things,
04:59I have really got the best in the world.