Heeramandi Cast Interview: Richa Chadha, Sanjeeda Sheikh and Sharmin Segal On Working With Bhansali

with me I did 17 auditions for the role you have to give your 200 person when you're working with sir because his passion and his perseverance towards his work is so honest very different from ramila which was the first experience I had with him I don't look at him as my uncle I look at him ASA bansali we are the heroes of [Music] television now that much awaited hamandi is going to release on Netflix so soon with days there are last minute butterflies that you are experiencing it's too late for butterflies no I I think today in the morning I saw San's architectural digest interview and I just sat in my bathroom and cried and my husband is like why are you crying and I was like because every time I hear that man speak especially publicly in interviews I realize who Sanaya bansali is and what he creates and what his what mind what his mind is and what comes out of that mind so I think for him just lots of emotions I think she's right I saw the picture yesterday and I kind of felt so good that oh wow I'm working with this man there's a 3 minute snippet on his perspective on Art and artists it's quite interesting you all knew him before but when you were selected for hamandi was there some kind of process or like look test or something that you had to go through can you take us through that so I think what Sun I've seen him is so I've assisted with saneso so I've been around his pre-production phase also and seeing the way he does that and with most of his actors I think he just looks at them as the character so what he does is look tests with me I did 17 auditions for the role because at the end of the day I'm also the youngest and the least body of work in my Kitt so I think he wanted to make sure that I could play this character not just look like the character but with most I think he just looks at you talks to you and understands whether you're capable not capable of doing it and he'll do a photo shoot Look test with you and make you into what he has imagined in his brain when he has sat and spoken with you so 17 auditions were fun cuz I got to read the script a little bit because of the audition process but and sesa challenges you in different different ways and with through the audition process I also was a little more clearer when I walked onto set because of what I was getting or what he expects out of me so it was nice to go through that process with him I think for me the process has been quite interesting I was completely ready to uh audition for sir but he didn't take the audition I'd met him like 10 years back for something and uh uh he remembered the meeting and uh then when he met me for hamandi I had no idea that I'm meeting sanj for hamandi he just looked at me and he just said that you're looking happy and uh I'll call you again and I kept waiting for just call and I got called and he just took a look test and she's right I think that man has a belief in his eyes for his actors and uh he knows uh what's their potential and he brings out the best in each and everyone so uh for me it's been an experience uh the experience is like dream you know because I've always wanted to work with sir like any other actor and uh I think I've nurtured myself into a better performer by working with him ARA you were working with laali for the second time uh how was the experience this time around of course very different from ramela which was the first experience I had with him which was a massive film again um and uh really different because we are both different people and I think that's also like a sign of an artist they're constantly evolving um and uh this time around I found it to be a little bit more fun because I could chat with him much more about his motivations and what he thinks uh about this world why is it so important for him to show these lives he could have made anything apart from the grand States it's also very per performance driven um so was there a pressure on you uh as an as artists while facing the camera um M there is a different kind of pressure ma'am when you're working with San sir you're there's pressure but at the same time you're very excited because there's this man uh who's uh who's you know respected uh in the fraternity and all around the world for His Brilliant mind and uh you know that if you have to give your 200 person when you're working with sir because his passion and his perseverance towards his work is so honest and that's what he expects from his actors so there's there's a sweet little kind of pressure which is enjoyable I think as an actor I think I enjoyed that pressure the one thing about working with sun and also standing on a San andali said of course there's pressure the if you could boil it down to the amount of money you spend the producers spend for us to be able to stand there and sress is at the end of the day as much as we talk about his big budget films he The Producers director everything that all the money is going towards that one frame and nowhere else so he is it's and as an actor that man's perseverance is to another degree so you don't want to give anything less than what he is giving and his there only one San in the world his expectations of himself are so high and for us to even come close we have to give 200% so it's there of course there's pressure like sanida said but it's welcome pressure and hopefully somewhere we understand ourselves better once we come through come out through that pressure like a diamond I do you get any leeway he being your uncle I don't get any LS I actually quite harsh on her I get it but he's he loves me a lot I'm not going to deny that there are days where he'll just look at me like Sharman his niece and when I'm just sitting there cuz I'm also when I look at him on a set I don't look at him as my uncle I look at him as sanila bansali and that's the respect he has earned throughout his life so that's I can't take that away from him just because I'm related to him also I can't change the fact that I'm related to him so but I look at him as Anda bansari because I say this a lot when I was 18 I rewatched D Das I watched it for the first I was four when it was made when I was 18 I rewatched it and I was like oh my God Sanjaya bansali is my mama what I understood who the man was and my respect for him like skyrocketed after that when had the maturity to understand his work and I think 18 was when I actually understood it and then I worked with him as an assistant I saw the amount of hard work he puts in then I worked with him as an actor and realized the genius and what he can take out of the people around him every step of the way my respect for the man has just gone Higher and Higher and Higher and that's why we call him San s me and my sister both we don't we call him never in public do we ever call him Mama Andi I think the narrative is driven by very feminine energy there are men in the story but the driving force are the women how does it feel to be part of that kind of story amazing actually because in most of the other stories the men are driving the narrative and the women are in the in the same male structure they are doing their best and they're you know still empowered unless it's of course headlined by a woman and that's the story uh most of the in most of the cases uh it's like you know in The Limited framework of either the house or the workspace like the women are driving the story otherwise it's mostly the men s would you like to uh add something to it because you come from uh you have experience in television where women are actually given a lot of import in fact more importance than men we are the heroes of uh television but not in the like you know OT space is another space which is like now probably putting woman on the for yeah I think because I think uh uh OT has given U opportunities to different sorts of uh actors different writers different directors so I think OT is one medium which is not afraid of trying and experimenting with different kind of content and it's it's beautiful I think uh the way uh sir understands uh women uh he gives them so much of reverence and respect and they're just not pretty girls on screen I think there's more to that and uh that's what he brings up out in everyone he adds soul to the character and it's empowering to play Such characters and how like we have seen main like be it amitab bachan or many generations of Heroes so-called Heroes who followed they are put on this Larger than Life portrayal but here I felt women have that whether Malika Jani is a flawed character she's she can be wrong but it's a larger than life portrayal of women yeah what does what do you think that the message that it sends out when it comes to storytelling in cinema that nobody can be San LA andali and also I think yeah please go also I think with sir I think Larger than Life picture has been a part of even or there were like two men who were very important and you know it was not like just a women story so Larger than Life is I think a tag which is attached to sir and nothing can be just average I also strongly believe that it puts across a message to an audience that at the end of the day women men were all humans we all go through emotions actors take those emotions and bring them to an audience I'm personally find it very difficult even though I completely understand where we talk about discrepancy between men and women when it comes to like Cinema like theater cinema because box office and God knows what other comes into that thought process but at the end of the day what this has done is bring everyone to a baseline where we're all human and we all feel emotions and every story is should be told doesn't matter G doesn't matter what gender you're from absolutely I think this depends on the narrative that he's trying to portray since the um since the story is about the thaves and they did hold sway culturally in the cities where they prospered in the areas where they prospered not just as people who became repositories of art and culture dance literature uh but as women very often who had control over U men to some degree so I think it flows from the narrative like in um in bajir ra manani manani goes out fighting yeah literally in battle so that is so different from his own film padmabat so I think it flows from uh the story that he's trying to focus on um but it's great because it will give more filmmakers men and women the confidence to have a woman at the center dead center of a narrative and make it about their rivalry Revenge Redemption whatever yeah yeah uh if you can name oh your um favorite Woman character on screen I'm going to steal min oh yeah beautiful in which film she means whicha so watched it 27 more than 27 times I think before starting to shoot I think for me it would be black Rani mukarji oh there are so many this is not cool I just thought of two more oh please go on I Kashi from bajir masani was a very empowering character hm and also I really liked the focus and like of women in Bandini and Nan in Bandini it was the head of IT time yeah very good choice I would actually say bandit Queen simply because it was a really uh that was truly empowered in a sense that really taking Society by the horns and uh an unafraid depiction of what had happened to her in real life and kind of removing the shame from that and actually uh using violence to make a point and out of frustration having given up on a system yes a social and legal system so yeah [Music]

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Length: 13min 26sec (806 seconds)

Published: Thu May 02 2024