Nawazuddin Siddiqui turns fugitive gangster in 'Sacred Games'

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00:00Ganesh Gaitonde is one of the most fascinating characters I have seen, perhaps you could

00:07talk about playing such a complex role, morally corrupt role.

00:11Morally corrupt, I don't know, it depends actually on the perception actually, what

00:22his perception is of looking at someone, it depends a lot on whether he is morally corrupt

00:30or not.

00:31He himself is saying the right things, his philosophy is absolutely correct, but other

00:36people tell him that he is morally corrupt or whatever.

00:40But yes, as you said, he is such a complex oriented character.

00:44Have you read the book?

00:45I have read the book.

00:46Yes.

00:47And what did you learn from it?

00:48There is a lot of detailing in the book, it is a very big book, it is a very thick book.

00:56It is 900 pages.

00:57Yes, it is 900 pages.

00:58So, it is a good thing that in a big book, you get a lot of details of the character.

01:04So, it also benefits the actor.

01:07Anurag Kashyap just said that he did a lot of detailing on your character, morally corrupt.

01:13What was his brief for you?

01:15And which part was very challenging for you?

01:18See, we, because no doubt, as you said, when I read the book in the beginning, it was a

01:25very complicated, very complex oriented character.

01:28But we had a very organic process.

01:31Doing it, doing it, doing it.

01:33We started very easily, but there were a lot of complications in the character.

01:41So, we started in a very easy way and it gradually became complicated, complex oriented.

01:48There are a lot of shades of his personality.

01:51He has his own internal world, how he sees the world.

01:58A common man and how he gets into complications.

02:03How complex he is in himself.

02:06How he gets into himself.

02:08This is one thing.

02:09And because he keeps having that kind of experience.

02:12Maybe this is one reason.

02:14All the complex oriented characters we see or people see in everyday life.

02:19So, he is not the reason himself.

02:22There is a world around him, which is the surrounding.

02:24So, like this.

02:25There are a lot of physically violent scenes.

02:27Sex has also been shown a lot.

02:29How tough was it for you as an actor?

02:31Because there is no censorship.

02:32But as an actor, it must be very challenging to do all this.

02:36Because in Hindi cinema, we mostly sanitize everything.

02:40We make it family friendly.

02:41So, how was your experience?

02:44It was very difficult.

02:45Because when we started, the kind of scenes you are telling about.

02:50That kind of sex sequence.

02:52It was very disturbing.

02:53So, in one day, I think we did the same sequence for a week.

02:58On the fourth or fifth day, I folded my hands.

03:01I said, forgive me.

03:03I am not able to do it now.

03:05But I had to do it.

03:06While doing it, my condition was not good actually.

03:12But I had to do it.

03:15But I had to do it with full conviction.

03:18Because you cannot do any small sequence without conviction.

03:28You cannot do any small sequence without conviction.

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