Babil Khan's Bollywood debut: Indian icon Irrfan Khan’s son talks about ‘Qala’

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Indian actor Babil Khan, the son of late acting legend Irrfan Khan, was grappling with the loss of his beloved father to cancer when he began working on his career’s first film ‘Qala’, out on Netflix now.  Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/bollywood/watch-indian-icon-irrfan-khans-son-babil-khan-talks-about-his-bollywood-debut-qala-his-dads-legacy-and-more-1.92581980  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km

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00:00because I was just thrown like it was my first film right so and coming just having lost my father to come into this space

00:08and she just Ripti just made it so comfortable and so there was nothing there was no pressure there was no pressure to do anything

00:19was it as easy and as dark and twisted as it looked was it so was it tough to carry off this role

00:25some days were tough some days were easy it was a mix of both I think for me

00:29what's important is that when you get into something like that it's important to have a

00:33good team with you and it's important to have good people around you and luckily we did have

00:38a great team you know all my co-actors Babil, Shastika, Amit Sial, Anvita they all just you know

00:45made it so comfortable for I think everybody that even on the most difficult days we were always

00:51relaxed the gratitude comes from the rarity in our industry to find real friends and to find

00:57find people that you know look out for you and that you know from the bottom of your heart that

01:03there's truth in the relationship right because I was just thrown like it was my first film right

01:08so and coming just having lost my father to come into this space and she just Ripti just made it

01:16so comfortable and so there was nothing there was no pressure there was no pressure to do anything

01:22and she was always there she was always very giving as an actor even though it's a dark film

01:27if you fall you know there are people to take care of you and that emotion is so sacred and I

01:33think that got us through and also I was going through something so dark and so morbid as you say

01:42outside of the set that it was just that outside of the set I was feeling so much that the set was

01:49acting as a form of catharsis you know it was not taking a toll instead it was being cathartic

01:53because I had somewhere in the form of art to express what I was feeling outside the sets

01:59being the characters in those moments we were not really letting ourselves get in the way and I

02:05think it's to do with the kind of workshops that we've had with Anvita, Anvita make sure that you

02:11are spending as much time as you're spending on while shooting the film you're spending as much

02:16time in fact more time doing workshops with her and when that happens you know you have clarity

02:22about a lot of things you know whatever questions that you may have for your characters or their

02:28life all those questions are answered in those workshop and you only answer those questions

02:32because she lets you become the character one thing was also on the set and on in the scenes

02:39we were completely like she was Kala and I was Jagan but the one thing was that just even our

02:46relationship in real life like there is great care for each other you know that we go very,

02:51very close when we were shooting and there was just genuine concern in me for her so I think

02:56that really just helped. How difficult was it for you guys not to judge the character you were

03:00playing? That in itself is a human practice right like that how there are certain connections where

03:06you as a human being have to do something in real life to be able to do it as an actor and I think

03:13that's just the human practice to develop a skill in you where you do not judge somebody or

03:19something like no matter what happens you try to look at it without bias you know without your own

03:27personal bias and if that is a practice in real life then I think it carries on to the craft.

03:33You as an actor you can never judge your character the minute you judge your character you know you

03:38you are you're out of it like you can't truly believe in them and you have to be able to believe

03:44in them make sure because whichever the character is you have to make it a real person right so I

03:50think that is a very important thing we can't be as actors judging our characters even though the

03:55characters are committing a crime we have to there has to be a reason for the character to commit a

04:01crime and we have to find out what that reason is.

04:05Do you think the characters were penalized and the actual culprit got away?

04:09The actual culprit I would say in this case is guilt. It's not a person, it's not Kala, it's not Jagad, it's not Urmila, it's human emotions.

04:18All of the emotions that the film is talking about everybody has some of the other you know

04:22everybody is has guilt in them, everybody has insecurities, everybody has anger issues, it's just that

04:29everybody has anxiety. It's just that with time you learn to deal with those emotions.

04:34Sometimes in life we deal with things and we don't understand why. The truth is that you've not,

04:41you're not, your soul is not just living this one life you know it is it has been traveling,

04:45journeying for a long time. A lot of characters think face spiritual penance and we don't

04:50really understand why we're going through what we're going through so far.

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