MUMBAI: In an interview with well-known television actress Jayati Bhatia, she first wishes everyone a good Makarsankranti before talking about her film "Heeramandi," which was directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. She claimed that during the filming of "Heeramandi" in 2023 and 2024, her desire was realized. The director Sanjay Leela Bhansali was also mentioned, and she expressed her hope that the film "Heeramandi" will be released in theaters.
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00:30In a dish called patty shepta, which looks like a dosa,
00:34it has coconut and mawa powder.
00:36It's like a dosa, very nice.
00:38And in my childhood memories, there was a puli pitha,
00:41which was fried and then boiled in milk kheer.
00:46This used to happen.
00:47And after that, because I was in Delhi,
00:50there was Lodi and winters.
00:53So on the day of Makar Sankranti,
00:54we used to have gajak, which was very important for us.
01:00It was a very exciting time.
01:08We used to fly kites too.
01:09My brother used to make manja.
01:12And my job was to ride a charkhari,
01:15and to feed it to Guddi.
01:16I think it's everyone's dream.
01:25All the actors in our country,
01:27or all the artists,
01:28now I will even say internationally,
01:29all of them have a desire to work in the direction of Mr. Sanjay Leela Bansali.
01:35And that dream of mine was fulfilled in 2022-23,
01:39by doing Heera Mandi.
01:40This experience cannot be described.
01:45Because he is such a person,
01:47everyone calls him a perfectionist,
01:48everyone says that he scolds at his work.
01:52But I will say that he is a very soft person.
01:55He loves his actors a lot.
01:57In the morning, when you go and meet him,
02:00I always used to greet him,
02:01so when I used to greet him,
02:03he used to give me such a lovely hug.
02:05And there used to be a whole day's discussion,
02:06what kind of scene it would be, what it wouldn't be.
02:08He is a very, very democratic director, I must say.
02:12He is a very intelligent director,
02:15that whatever good he gets from somewhere,
02:18he does it himself.
02:20Whether it is in the dialogues,
02:22or in the characterisation,
02:23or in the discussions.
02:24If he feels that this is right for his scene,
02:27this is right for his show,
02:29or this is right for the film,
02:30then he accepts it.
02:32Even if he is an actor like me,
02:36he does not hesitate to accept it.
02:40What could be a better quality of a director
02:43that he accepts from everybody,
02:46and then he matches it with his vision.
02:54I did not feel any pressure on set.
02:56Not because of that,
02:57because my theatre training is with Mr. Ibrahim Alkazi,
03:00and I have also worked with directors like Firoz Khan.
03:05So that is why I know
03:06that how much effort is required for perfectionism,
03:10and what vision is required,
03:12and what picture they want to portray.
03:14Everything is like a painting.
03:16So I had this experience from my theatre training.
03:19So I was mentally well prepared
03:21that when I am going to work with Mr. Sanjay Leela Bhansali,
03:25it is going to be a big work.
03:27His vision is big,
03:28and that vision,
03:29on screen,
03:31to the best of my capability,
03:33I have to enliven it in his direction.
03:37I have to bring it to life.
03:45Not at all.
03:46Not at all.
03:47You are absolutely right.
03:49Considering the time restraints,
03:51can you create that kind of grandeur on television?
03:56No.
03:56To create that kind of grandeur,
03:58you need a lot of time,
04:00a lot of people,
04:01a lot of patience,
04:03and to achieve that perfection,
04:07you need a different mindset.
04:09We have to deliver 22-23 minutes every day.
04:13How can we show grandeur in that?
04:14The second thing is,
04:16I would like to say this to the people on television,
04:20I would like to say this to the audience,
04:22when people say,
04:23we have shot it like a film.
04:26Television is like television.
04:27There is a way to shoot on every platform.
04:31The sooner we understand it,
04:33the better it is.
04:34We can uplift it to a certain extent
04:36because visually it has to look beautiful,
04:38visually it has to look good,
04:39visually it has to look dramatic.
04:41That is why we can shoot to a certain extent.
04:43But if it becomes too grand,
04:46I have seen it on television,
04:48I have noticed that it is not that effective
04:51because television is a different medium,
04:54the camera is different,
04:55the set-up is different.
04:56I have been listening to this for 50 crore years.
05:03I have been listening to it since social media came.
05:07I have been listening to it since OTT platforms came.
05:09Television is gone, television is gone, television is gone.
05:12It will go away now, there is not much time.
05:14But I have been seeing for so many years
05:16that television is sustaining.
05:18A lot of OTT channels have shut down,
05:20a lot of OTT channels' budgets have been cut so much
05:25that a lot of people don't want to work on it.
05:27So that is why I will say that television is sustaining.
05:30In tier 2, tier 3,
05:32the women who sit at home and watch,
05:34the families who watch, the cities that we have,
05:36television is still running well on that.
05:38Now we don't watch TRP, we watch Time Spend.
05:41So the scale has changed a bit.
05:43We watch TRP but we don't pay attention to it.
05:45Nowadays people pay attention to Time Spend.
05:47Channels like Dangal never pay attention to TRP,
05:51they pay attention to Time Spend.
05:52And their Time Spend is from 22 minutes to 20 minutes.
05:57So that is why I am saying that television is alive
05:59and it is running well.
06:06I really wish that Hira Mandi
06:10is released in theatres as well.
06:12Because the first two episodes that I saw of the premiere,
06:15I saw them on a big screen, I saw them on a big screen.
06:20So that is why I will say that it had a wonderful effect.
06:23If you sit at home and watch Hira Mandi on your phone,
06:28then you will never understand the series.
06:33Its grandness, its subtleties,
06:36its dialogues, expressions, music, dance,
06:40you will never find it so effective.
06:43When you see it on a slightly bigger screen,
06:45only then you will see its effect.
06:49So I noticed this because I saw the first two episodes
06:53on a bigger screen.
06:54So yes, I would request the OTT platform Netflix
06:59to release it in theatres.
07:02Whether it is in four parts,
07:04or it will be released in four hours.
07:08So if it happens, but if we can see it on a bigger screen
07:11and the audience can also see it,
07:12then it will be a lot of fun.