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01:07Kedar ji, Vinit ji, welcome to ANI. Thank you. I would like to ask you the first question, how did Kedar approach you when he came to you with this script?
01:19What was it that made you say yes to it?
01:23When I was a kid, I have heard a lot of stories about the army, the uniform, and I liked the uniform. It was a dream.
01:38When I got a chance to do it in real life, I thought I would not miss this opportunity.
01:44Before this, when I got a chance to wear the uniform of the Air Force in Gunjan Saxena, it was the same there.
01:51Apart from that, the character of Avinash Patwardhan in Match Fixing is very beautiful. There are a lot of layers, it is complex, and a lot of things are going on undercurrent with the character.
02:11Plus, he is an army intelligence officer, so he works in the field by hiding his real identity.
02:21And because of that, I had the opportunity to live a lot of characters in one film.
02:27Kedar's clarity about the film, because when the script came, it was not completely ready.
02:37So I heard Kedar, and Kedar is a DOP also, so I firmly believe that a DOP will never let his film go wrong visually.
02:51And Kedar's clarity about the story and the characters, I was sure I can go ahead.
02:59Kedar, when was the film born in your mind?
03:04Actually, the producer Pallavi had bought the rights of the book.
03:10The book is written by Colonel Retired Kavar Khatana.
03:14The book is called The Game Behind Saffron Terror.
03:17Pallavi had bought the rights of the book.
03:20And softly, not very surely, he gave me the book and asked me to read it.
03:26After reading it, I started seeing so much potential in that book.
03:32Sometimes when you read a book, you feel that the film cannot be made.
03:38Maybe the life is too short.
03:41But the book's expanse was so big, the way Kavar Khatana has written it.
03:50With his expertise of so many years of intelligence service in the army.
03:56In those 10 pages, I called Pallavi and told her that we should go for the film.
04:03And then we were on the same page.
04:06We didn't have a story on 1st October, 2023.
04:10When we officially signed the film, I only had the book.
04:15We approached the writer. Anuj graciously accepted the challenge.
04:19It was challenging because there are many layers in the film.
04:23Too many incidences had to get together and write a screenplay.
04:31It was a very difficult job for any writer.
04:34But luckily enough, he took it up as a challenge.
04:39That is how the film was born.
04:41Slowly but surely, we went ahead and started meeting people.
04:46Don't you feel that choosing a subject where there is a fear of controversy.
04:52As a director, don't you feel that when you choose a film, there is a fear?
04:58There are two things.