Om Puri on his career, Gandhi and roles for older actors. In an exclusive interview with Gulf News tabloid! at the 2017 Dubai International Film Festival, Indian actor Om Puri shares his thoughts on his recent films, his opinion of Gandhi as a leader and the lack of roles available for older actors.
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00:00I have not gone anywhere from the map. I am very much there. You know, last year I did
00:13this film and I did Deepa, not Deepa, this British film, Gurinder Chaddha's film called
00:25Vaisraya House. I don't know. I keep asking myself. I don't want to pass a harsh judgment,
00:38anything like that. But I still keep thinking that when Gandhiji was thrown out of the train,
00:46having a proper ticket, that kind of humiliation he inhaled and he felt that this is very very
01:01unjust and unfair. Should I fight it only for myself? There are a lot of others who
01:10are being humiliated every day throughout here in South Africa and in India. What can
01:20be done? That curiosity in him became so intense that he came up with this idea that non-violence
01:33is the only method we can tackle them. People used to throng to listen to him and they were
01:42so impressed by his views that they went back to their villages becoming small small Gandhis
01:51and they started spreading that message. So that is how Gandhiji reached throughout the
01:56country. And a lot of his strategies were very effective. Like he realized how do we
02:04hit their economy? He said don't wear, burn foreign clothes.
02:09Which is very effective you think? Yes, of course. We will make our own clothes.
02:17And Satyagraha, that salt dandy march, that was another move because we were being taxed on salt.
02:28And he said this is our salt. The sea is ours. This water is ours.
02:34Not for us. No, I'm not. I take it in a strike. It is the
02:45makers who want to play safe that Mr. Bachchan is in the film, Ajay Devgn is in the film,
02:52so and so is in the film, so the film will make money.
02:54So it's all economics. Yes, economics.