Manoj Bajpayee Interview: Gali Guleiyan Comes With A New Promise After The Success Of Baaghi 2 & Satyameva Jayate
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Tuesday, 4th September 2018, 6:55 PM IST Internationally known as 'In The Shadows', Dipesh Jain’s 'Gali Guleiyan' starring Manoj Bajpayee has been screened across 23 International Film Festivals and is all set to release in India on 7th September. Box Office Capsule had an amazing time interacting about the upcoming movie 'Gali Guleiyan' with the talented star Manoj Bajpayee. Read on to know the deets! 1. Both of your films 'Gali Guleiyan' & 'Love Sonia' were screened at the Indian Film Festival in Melbourne and you also won the best actor for 'Gali Guleiyan', congratulations on that! But do you think these festival screenings help the movies in any way at the box office in India? Firstly these films are made in a very limited budget. You recover your money eventually and if you place it well, you recover it very fast. I always get the strength of the market from the commercial or mainstream films that I do like 'Baaghi 2' and 'Satyameva Jayate' that gives a lot of strength when I am releasing a film like 'Gali Guleiyan'. A story which has been lauded and admired all over the world in 23 International Film Festivals which has got me too many awards also. If you compare it with 'Satyameva Jayate' it is completely wrong because independent films like 'Gali Guleiyan', they are coming up with stories and not targeting the Box office but targeting the mind of the viewers, targeting the senses which are ready to hear the story, a truthful story, a kind of a story that they have never seen or heard before, a kind of performance that they have never experienced before. So these are the films which are not made with Box Office in mind. They are made with complete sincerity and honesty just to tell the story and that is why their budgets are very limited so that their recovery becomes easy. When you are making a film like Satyameva Jayate, Box Office is always kept in mind. 2. Your character Khuddoos is torn within the city walls of Old Delhi trying to escape from the shackles, have you ever felt the same in real life from Mumbai or Bollywood maybe? You always feel that in Mumbai because here people are very busy. If you are even living on the same floor you hardly know your neighbor. Everybody as soon as they enter their flat they immediately close their door, so that’s the nature of this city and when you get inside your flat and if you are living alone that is the time you feel that you have nobody. You either watch TV or you read something or you cook for yourself or you go to sleep without any human being really noticing as to what you are doing. It’s a very different kind of loneliness that you go through but Gali Guleiyan’s character Khuddoos is going through his own journey. He is somebody who is lost in the maze of his own mind. He is somebody who is trying to get out of that maze, somebody who is trying to get out of the Gali’s of Purani Delhi but he fails every time. So it’s a struggle, it’s a mind's journey of this person. We are taking you to a world which will be difficult for you to come out even after 3 days. 3. You've said at various junctures that this movie is the toughest you've ever done, what makes you say so? Yes, it is! This character is dealing with the mind. When you are dealing with the mind, it becomes very difficult for an actor to take out all the nuances and the thoughts in front of the camera and for that, you really have to immerse yourself into the character. And to immerse yourself you should be ready to suffer, to torture yourself so much so that you start looking like the character, you start thinking like the character. When I was preparing for the role, sometimes I used to just talk to myself. My wife found me doing that and she got very concerned. And I was looking very sick as I was in a very massive diet plan. So for a family member who is looking at you from the outside, he sees you behaving in a very funny way, quite a crazy way. So you have to go through it to take out that character to put it out there on the screen and that is a very difficult process. 4. Satyameva Jayate is doing very well at the box office, now 'Gali Guleiyan'; has there been a conscious effort to mix the genres? To give something to every fan of yours? It is always good for an actor. I am an actor. My skill set should be ready, my crafts should be perfect to play any character in any genre. I am living in a country which is Box Office oriented. So I should be ready to do any role. My craft should be such so that I have the ability to people to whistle on my dialogues at the same time make them really sit quiet and still for 2 hours and watch a psychological journey of Khuddoos from Gali Guleiyan, so I should have the ability to do anything. I can’t afford to look down to any genre and I need to have the ability or the craft ready to get into any kind of genre and do it successfully and come out of it. This year has been fantastic. If I have done Missing and Aiyaary successfully I have also done Baaghi 2 and Satyameva Jayate successfully and now Gali Guleiyan is also coming with a new promise and a new story to tell and with a lot of awards, so I should be doing everything. Directed by debutant Dipesh Jain, produced by Shuchi Jain of Exstant Motion Pictures, GALI GULEIYAN will release in India and Worldwide on 7th September 2018. Now you can enjoy ad-free experience by downloading India’s first Box Office mobile app from here –Android: http://bit.ly/BOCapsuleMobileApp and iOS: bit.ly/BOCapsuleiOSApp |