It’s not easy to interview actors when they are drumming up buzz for a suspense thriller because there’s always that fear of giving the proverbial farm away inadvertently.
Bollywood actors Yami Gautam and Sunny Kaushal, who were on call to promote their latest heist-meets-hijack thriller ‘Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga’ (CNKB) on Netflix, faced a similar predicament last. In a video interview, they playfully weighed every question carefully and warned each other of giving away any major plot twists.
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Bollywood actors Yami Gautam and Sunny Kaushal, who were on call to promote their latest heist-meets-hijack thriller ‘Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga’ (CNKB) on Netflix, faced a similar predicament last. In a video interview, they playfully weighed every question carefully and warned each other of giving away any major plot twists.
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00:00Actually, not, not really. I mean, yeah, of course. I mean, highest and hijack is quite more than dark. It's quite a crime.
00:11But I think it was quite fun. You know, the genre and we were just talking, Sunny, before you were joining. And I'd like to say this on camera. This is your popcorn slash samosas, slash all those things that you want watching a film. It is that kind of pure thriller.
00:31I feel it's a genre which a lot of audience, especially, you know, Indian audience, I think they love such films. Even I do.
00:40I love watching. When I was watching it, you know, the trial show and I was like, I forgot that I'm in the film. I'm like, haan, achha, achha, achha. It's nice, nice, nice. Achha, achha, achha. Aise hai yaar.
00:49Exactly same thing happened. We are proud that the movie has turned out to be really good. Better than what was probably even written or expected.
00:58This movie also moves away from this great guy, great girl and together they find happiness and walk. You guys are just very, very diabolical, both of you.
01:07I was just going to say whether we are diabolical or we are not or whether we are just victims.
01:12Sunny, Sunny, Sunny, Sunny, Sunny.
01:14You will find out when you watch the film.
01:17It's nice that Bollywood is moving away from all these, you know, finding, walking away into the sunset kind of stories.
01:25Bollywood is moving away from the term Bollywood also and Bollywood and I think a lot of things and it's quite interesting to see the kind of films that are happening
01:35or at least filmmakers intend to make more than anything. So, it's interesting. It's a correction phase and I think we see, we take it in a very positive stride.
01:45Did you both audition for the role? How did this offer come to you?
01:49Briefly met earlier during one of the parties, I think success party of Puri.
01:54Yes, and a screening and something socially and everything.
01:59Correct, we briefly met here and there before and so no, I mean I don't think we auditioned, I don't know Yami did you audition for it? I didn't.
02:08No, I didn't. For some reason I find it very comfortable, equally comfortable when I don't know someone and I'm meeting someone for the first time
02:15and working somebody for the first time as much as if I know someone because that's really inconsequential.
02:20If you're working in a film, whether you're an actor, you're a director, whoever you are in whatever capacity you're working, we're there because of work.
02:29I like maintaining that tonality I think when it comes to work. So, anything that gets you making a good film and play your part well.
02:38So, we did and Sunny has worked with Madhok before with Shidharth. I have had this, this is my fourth collaboration with Madhok and my second with Amar Kaushik.
02:49And so, this was I think these are enough auditions slash work offers which has gone out for them to imagine us in these respective roles.
02:59I'll just add something too since you said I mean should come across that oh you know how about this whole audition thing you didn't raise any brows, not at all.
03:06But that's not really, once you're past your first film or first couple of films, that's not really a part of our culture as an industry.
03:13Like they're in the West. Some of the, I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, some of the most popular actors or very established actors or prolific actors,
03:22they also read their lines or do these screen tests and that's how they crack auditions. That's a part of the culture, the industry.
03:29Correct.
03:29So, here you feel after maybe you know two, three films, you'll feel I don't have a problem giving look tests and auditions. That's a part of my job.
03:38But why am I the only one who's been asked then why my contemporary is not being asked?
03:44Why somebody else who's in the film who's probably done the same amount of work is not being asked?
03:51Right.
03:52This is where the difference comes. That is what I'm saying.
03:55That's interesting. Did you guys have to do a lot of workshop or just on the go you just started working on this?
04:01I think first and foremost writing is the hero, man. How you chalk it out on paper needs to work first when you read it.
04:10You know, only then will it be able to come alive on screen and will you be able to translate it that well.
04:17So, yeah, I think writing is the most important thing and obviously then comes the director.
04:22If you were to like recommend this movie, would you read the critics and say, you know, would you read the critics review or would you go by what the audiences say?
04:29Or how do you guys rate in an especially when a movie is released on Netflix or on a platform?
04:36How do you gauge whether people truly like it or not?
04:39We gauge it by the amount of messages you directly get on in your Instagram.
04:44And so it's and it's such an instant reaction that if they upload the movie at 12 o'clock, you know, on 24th, 12 a.m. 24th.
04:54Yes.
04:56So, by 2 o'clock, you'll have messages in your DMs.
05:02So, the morning you wake up really fresh and everything and whether people have loved it or not, you'll come to know instantly.
05:09And I mean, I go by both the things, you know, obviously, first and foremost, reviews are
05:17whether the audience have loved it or not and what they have loved about it and their reactions are so unabashed.
05:23Sometimes that is a very nice thing, you know, it's sometimes very funny as well.
05:27But also the critics are also there too.
05:32So, that's how I view it, help us because some of them are really technically very strong in terms of,
05:40you know, gauging performances, gauging how the film is technically and all that.
05:44So, when you read that, you do tend to get an idea of how people who are technically strong and knowledgeable about this craft and this industry are viewing things.
05:54So, that's also very important.
05:56But I think I would go with people, what people say that's paramount.
06:01You would obviously want ideally the balance of both, the best of both the worlds.
06:06But as they say, it's a very old saying, you can't make everyone happy.
06:10And my priority is my audience.
06:13Because when I'm reading the script also, I'm reading it keeping in mind what excites me,
06:17gets me happy as an actor and has the potential of entertaining or engaging the audience or not.
06:25And to reach as many audiences or as many people as possible.
06:29I don't want to place just only couple of people.
06:32While they come from a certain, of course, you know, certain background and some really important people from cinema.
06:40And that's great.
06:41But they'll always be, you'll always fall short of something or the other.
06:46And if you keep seeking that validation, I don't think it'll ever happen.
06:50So, I like to go with the audience.
06:52I love to, I love when I, I love a great, you know, comment or a great feedback.
06:57And that's genuine.
06:58I also reply and take it, take up those who probably had a feedback to give or a critical observation.
07:05But you get to know the tone.
07:07If it's done in a way to, which is condescending or is it done in a way which is very constructive?
07:12Which is, you know, for the love of cinema.
07:14Because it's still subjective.
07:15What is a good film or a bad film or whatever, you know, it's a very subjective question.
07:19So, I respect them.
07:22I respect my audience.
07:23I love my audience.
07:24And that connection with me and them will always be of paramount importance.
07:29More than anything else.
07:30Fair enough.
07:31Would you kill for love?
07:32Like a guy tells you, oh, you know, let's be together.
07:34Would you kill or do something criminal for love?
07:37That's a very scary question.
07:40I don't think so.
07:41My love will ever ask me ever to do something which is criminal or has the potential to see me and become a prisoner.
07:49I don't think so.
07:51I wouldn't.
07:53Not if my love asks.
07:55That's not the thing.
07:56But to protect, yeah, I would.