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| One Shot Nandu and Pinky Palkar talk Lafangey Parindey By Filmicafe.com, 28 July 2010, Filmicafe.com | |
| Deepika, we heard that the unit made you work very hard. You made tea for everybody? Deepika: Actually, I decided for myself that I would make tea for everyone because I like making tea. Very honestly, I wasn't liking the chai that was being made on the set so finally towards the end of the schedule I decided to make the tea myself! Neil: I think the tea was really nice! Personally I never cribbed because for me tea is tea! But after drinking the tea she made I saw that there was definitely a difference! And then she got us hooked on to it and she started making tea for us! Deepika: Personally, I prefer coffee to tea. Neil: Ya, even I prefer coffee to tea. I make good coffee. Deepika: Oh! he made coffee for all of us! And it's not like he just takes coffee and water and makes the coffee. He makes sure it's served at the right temperature, with the correct amount of froth and sprinkles on top. He makes sure the presentation is perfect. And he does it all himself. What was your reaction when you first saw the trailer? Neil: Honestly I was overwhelmed. I had a pre conceived notion about how the trailer would be. But whatever Dada (Pradeep Sarkar), Adi (Aditya Chopra) and the YashRaj team made, it's just very apt. It quickly and brilliantly tells you our story. Very simple and straightforward - the trailer is our film. Deepika: The minute I saw the trailer, I was happy to see how the film had turned out. I had seen the movie only in parts, not the entire thing. Physically it had been a very draining film, especially the parts with skating, and I was happy to see how it was looking on screen finally. I am sure it had been very difficult for Dada also to direct such a difficult film. What was the reaction of the others for the trailer? Deepika: I told Dada the same thing I have never gotten so many comments only for a promo! Neil: Even on twitter, none of us have even tweeted about the trailer, yet the number of comments we have got is overwhelming! I was shooting for Saat Khoon Maaf with Priyanka and Vishal, and they were also talking to me about the trailer. The reactions are almost like people have seen the film! They are reacting on the performances, they are reacting on how the film is looking in general. Deepika, how was your experience working with Neil? Deepika: Working with Neil was torturous. He is so rude and selfish, always wanting to take his shots first. He's a pain! Ok joking. Honestly, I think Neil is the most giving actor I have worked with. I can definitely say that he is most supportive. He puts me before himself. There are days when it's an important scene for him too, but he would be there to support me and worry about my performance. There is a scene in the film, for which I needed different type of make up. He is trained in different types of make up and actually did my make up that day. So I can say that both professionally and personally, Neil has been there for me. I think I have a friend for life! Neil: that's so sweet! Deepika: awwww moment! Don't cry Neil, don't cry! Neil: She is one person who gets a certain amount of energy when she's around you. Her smile is just awesome! With the loveliest dimples! Her one smile puts everything straight. It's such an honour to work with such a beautiful human being and a great friend. How was your experience with the new artists. They have weird names like Chaddi, Deisel, Gulkand and Tina? Deepika: None of us have met before, I knew only Namit (Chaddi) briefly. But from the first day, we got along as if we knew them all our lives! Neil: All of them have given such stellar performances. When we were together, we became such good friends that I never felt like there was a camera and a setup around us, we just felt that we were told to go and live in a certain way and we did that. How was the experience with Dada (Pradeep Sarkar, the director)? Neil: Dada makes an audio board of his entire film. We would initially never understand why he would do so much detailing before the shoot. We instantly understood the entire film, our characters with so much depth. We actually lived the film before we went and shot it. Deepika: For a good 6 months, we lived our characters. We had started our readings, we knew our dialogues by heart, we knew which scenes came after which scene. That was only because of Dada's way of shooting that helped us so much! Deepika, Dada has been making women oriented films, whether it is Parineeta or Laaga Chunari Mein Daag. Now this movie has this character of a blind skater, how do you feel about playing this character? Deepika: Pinky's character is a girl who is very modern. The way she thinks, the kind of ambitions and her personality is like the girls today. Pinky wants so much from life, she wants to get out of the world she lives in. I have to say that playing blind and being a skater was definitely the most challenging part. What is the story behind you running behind chickens? Deepika: This has physically been the most challenging film for me. For one I had to learn how to skate, then I had to act blind, then I had to hold a pigeon, run behind a chicken, get bitten by a dead fish don't ask me how, fall a zillion times and finally hurt my knee. Oh and also fall into a ditch face in, get knocked over by an auto and hit a lampost. How was the experience of doing the stunts yourself? Neil: Extremely entertaining to be honest! I have seen the Mumbai bike culture myself.The chowpati area where you will see biker boys are doing their stunts, doing their wheelies, zipping across, showing off not realizing they are risking their lives. I had an experience last year and now I am doing a film on this! So it was quite interesting to recall that experience of mine and put it on screen. It was rather safe because of the action director. But now that I've seen it on screen, I won't do it again. Deepika – what are the three things that are common between Neil and Nandu. Neil: Very simple! Good hearted, good looking and shy. Deepika: Bingo! Neil – three things that are common between Deepika and Pinky? Deepika: Stunning. Neil: Definitely. She made me fall in love with her – on screen, don't get scared! Deepika: ambitious and... Neil: Strong hearted. I love her dimples. I hid a coin in them haha! Deepika: What rubbish! Neil, what motivated you to take up Lafangey Parindey? Deepika: I was in it! Neil: Yes, that's true! But also, if you see the films I have done uptil now, all of them have been very strong characters. Parag Dixit (Jail), Omar in New York, to Johnny Gaddhar. Very few times, an actor gets an opportunity to portray such characters. How could I say no! Also there are such creative people handling your character like Mr. Pradeep Sarkar, Mr. Aditya Chopra, and the one who has created it Mr. Gopi Putran. He is a genius. Deepika: I remember Adi (Aditya Chopra) called me up and said I would like to meet you for a movie. I went and met him and he explained that the girl is blind and everything else that had to follow. I was surprised that he offered me such a film so early in my career. And he said that he thought that I had the potential to pull it off. The character was very interesting, the world that the film is set in as compared to the other films I had done. So it was a challenge I had to accept. Neil: A challenge very well lived upto. I have to tell her 20000 times that she is brilliant in the film. She doesn't realize that she had set a benchmark for herself. How was it working with YRF? Neil: I have always maintained this. YRF is like home to me. I have learnt a lot from them since childhood. I was an assistant director here at YRF. I got my first big hit New York, Kabir Khan and his team. I have worked with the best team in New York. They groomed me, moulded me and embedded a certain culture in me. Deepika: For me, while I was growing up, the one or two Yashraj Films that were released were the films that my family and me used to look forward to. I have grown up watching Yashji's films, Adi's films. And now to be part of the YRF family starting with Bachna Ae Haseeno. It was really a dream come true. I remember the day Bachna released Adi came up to me and said "I owe you one". He said that because he really liked my work in that film. And for a long time I never heard from him. And I was a little disheartened. And then like I said he called me and Lafangey happened. Why should all the Lafangeys and Parindeys watch this film? Neil: Because it's a film made simply from the heart. It's a film for people who strongly have a nice, strong heart. It's a beautiful story, with a lot of depth, and a lot of emotion. Most importantly, its got a lot of love. Deepika: I am not going to just say go and watch the film. I think if you found the theatrical and the promos interesting, if you feel that this film will entertain you for a good 2 hours and take your mind off everything else you should go and watch it. I would definitely go and watch it! |
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