Mumbai: In an exclusive conversation with the cast of "Binodiini," which included Chandan Roy Sanyal, Rukmini Maitra, and Ram Kamal Mukherjee, she discussed the most difficult part of emotionally living in the role after they discussed their motivations for making the movie. Finally, they talk about their planning and how they turned the Star Theater into a movie theater that will inspire upcoming artists.
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00:00I think it's the story of a great warrior, a theatre person, an artist of the 19th century,
00:12one of the greatest and stories like this needs to be told because it always talks about
00:18women empowerment which is very much needed in today's society.
00:21So I think that's a wonderful reason to make this film.
00:27I think a very important yet a lost chapter in history, that is the reason why this story
00:34needed to be retold and it had to reach the future generations because of course we are
00:40moving ahead with the times but we cannot forget the people and the women who have paved
00:45the way for us to be here today.
00:47So this is a story from Bengal, of Bengal, by Bengal but for the entire world to see
00:53and witness the magic of.
00:56I feel personally that as Rukmini and Chandan said, I'm voicing the same, that there are
01:06many stories from Bengal which needs to be told, there are many stories which we generally
01:12tend to forget.
01:13But if we don't look back at history, if we don't look back at history, then we will
01:20end our relationship with our roots or we will run away from that relationship or we
01:26will try to get rid of that relationship.
01:29That's not right because the contribution of Binodini Dasi should have come to Indian
01:34cinema and we tried in our own way to pay tribute to her and I hope that people will
01:42go and see her and whatever tribute she has done, whatever they like or dislike, they
01:46will tell us.
01:47I hope they will like it and not dislike it.
01:55I think of course, very big shoes to fill in.
01:58Emotionally, of course, there is an instant connect because any woman will feel her pain,
02:04will feel the burdens that she has faced.
02:06Yet, I think Binodini was or rather is a beautiful amalgamation of both pain and pleasure
02:12and that is what a woman's life is all about.
02:14So, that is a journey I think.
02:16We as women, we have been going through this since birth.
02:20So, that is something which I always knew.
02:23But yet, playing I think Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a big challenge because I think in 1883,
02:311884, she was the first woman who acted in the character of a man.
02:36And I think maybe, I don't know, I am sorry if I am mistaken, but almost 140-150 years
02:41later, I got the opportunity to act in the character of a man and that too in the character
02:47of God.
02:48So, that was an experience which was the biggest challenge.
02:53But the kind of adulation, the love that the performance is receiving, I think, what is it?
03:03I won it.
03:04Won it.
03:11Okay.
03:12Yeah, the whole approach of making this entire movie is completely different because I being
03:18a student of history, we were very conscious that we will make this biopic, try and be
03:24as authentic as possible.
03:26But at the same time, target the youth and the younger generation so that they can also
03:31go and see the film and they can also relate to the subject and not alienate any audience
03:36saying that, oh, this is for this section of audience.
03:40We wanted to make it for like as the story is from 7 to 70 of Binodini Das's journey,
03:45we want audiences from 7 to 70 to come and watch the film too.
03:48So, it's been a very conscious decision for me and Rukmini to kind of, you know, while
03:53we were making this film that we'll have all the commercial elements, but at the same
03:57time, the soul and the research will be in place.
04:00So, that's how we thought of making this film.
04:08Actually, being from a Bengali family in my childhood, I used to be part of the Ram Krishna
04:14mission.
04:15So, most of my school days, I've spent evenings at the Ram Krishna mission listening to his
04:21bhajans, reading his books in the library, the Swami Vivekananda literature, which was
04:28very sort of a common thing for most of us growing up in Bengali family.
04:32We always have a Ram Krishna picture or a Vivekananda picture side by side on the wall
04:37and ma.
04:39So, when the role got offered to me and I reconnected with my childhood, my past and
04:45my mother was very happy because she being a devotee of ma, Sarodama, I started playing
04:51the bhajans every day in the morning and almost most of the day, I used to play the bhajans
04:56in my house and she was really happy that kuch kaam kar raha hai life mein, jo achi
05:01cheez toh kar raha hai bera beta.
05:04And I had started reading on the, I mean the book came to me, Autobiography of a Yogi,
05:11the Paramahansa Yogananda book and that's how it started and I did my normal acting
05:16things and yeah.
05:22I think it's a great moment and time in history, what we have just witnessed, not
05:28only as an actor, not only as team Binodini, I think but just as citizens of the country,
05:33this is a very proud moment because this is a moment which has never happened all over
05:37the world.
05:38Having a theatre named after a heroine which was rightly hers to begin with, so rightfully
05:45so and then thereafter to have the premiere, the first premiere to be held in that theatre
05:50is her very own biopic, Binodini.
05:54So that is a huge, huge, huge honour in itself and of course this provides as inspiration,
06:00this provides as motivation, the reason why I always say that Binodini is not just cinema,
06:05Binodini is a movement.
06:07This is something I have always said, if we success, if we successfully manage to do this
06:12then this will be another renaissance which Bengal, which is happening in Bengal at this
06:17very moment rather in India.
06:19So that is the reason why I think when you see the fact that this woman, she has struggled,
06:24she has fought for her rights and eventually even though, even though her justice has been
06:29delayed but she has finally received it.
06:32So I think there's this saying, people say that, my father used to always tell me that
06:38do not, even if you lose a battle that's fine but don't quit it halfway.
06:44So maybe you think that you're only battling it out while you're alive but her battles
06:48went on beyond that and finally she has won.
06:51So it is a big win for not only an artist, not only a woman but I think as humankind in general.
06:58So this is most definitely a huge inspiration for many, many young girls and boys because
07:03it is a story of a fight within and a fight which is won.