Mumbai: In an exclusive interview with the director and Actor of the movie ‘Phule’ Pratik Gandhi, Patralekha and director Anant Mahadevan. Where they start discussing their character and from where they get inspiration to portray the historical figures. After that, they open up on the challenges while playing Savitribai Phule and Jyotirao Phule. In the last, Pratik Gandhi shares how his role is difficult but rewarding.
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00:00Phule was a story that was waiting to be told and told in a very big way to a global audience.
00:12And it was so timely now that all the issues that were raised during the 1840s and 1560s
00:21have become more relevant today and needs to be tackled on a very early basis.
00:25So I thought that this was the film that is the need of the hour.
00:31Regarding my actors, I think it was a no-brainer casting Prateek and Prashanthika.
00:39Because sometimes you wonder who to cast, who to cast, how to start auditioning actors.
00:48But here they were like lifelike portraits who came out of a sketch.
00:55And besides brilliant actors, it was very easy for me.
00:59But getting them to do it, it was their work, their thinking.
01:04And I think thinking actors are very important to portray characters like this.
01:08The internal conflict, it's not external conflict, it's an internal conflict.
01:13It's a big challenge to portray that.
01:16And I think that they have approached very successfully.
01:21So that's how the entire process happened.
01:25Our approach was very simple, we wanted to tell a human story.
01:39Because their work is so huge, humongous, that if we just go there with all our sensibility
01:49and honesty, we will be able to tell the story in the best possible way.
01:56The story was written beautifully, it was a very well written script.
02:01And when I came to know that Alam Sir is directing this, so whatever that is filmography that
02:07you see, you will realize that his approach is very natural, neutral and realistic.
02:14So when you have a director like that, you know how it is going to shape up.
02:21So that's it.
02:22And we just did a couple of look tests, we did a couple of readings and then we were there.
02:29That's how it all came out.
02:45I think we spoke in Zoom the first time.
02:49And Alam Sir sent me a script, and it was a very thick script.
02:55So I called Sir and said, Sir, this is a very thick script, how did you make it?
02:59And he said, no, no, this is the first draft, we have put in all the research.
03:03Now we will take it for sharpening.
03:05And then about a year and a half passed, and then Alam Sir took the script again.
03:10And it was so nice, so interesting, it was like a human drama, literally.
03:17So I just couldn't say no to him.
03:20I mean, I thought about it, but I couldn't say no.
03:23I guess she was the first one to do it.
03:25I think she cast, she was cast before you.
03:34See, I'm not a messenger.
03:36I don't give messages.
03:38But when there is an incident or an incident, when the chapter of history opens in front of you,
03:45then you absorb it, you learn from it, you derive something from it.
03:51And here we are not doing sloganeering, here we are not doing quantification.
03:56We are just narrating a story, reporting a story as it happened with all the emotions and all the power behind it.
04:05And it resonates so much that it fits you, it moves you, it educates you, it energizes you,
04:15and hopefully it will inspire you to change the world.
04:18So that is what these two characters will do.
04:21Generally, we don't even need to shout and shout, because everything is hidden in their actions.
04:28And it's like wherever the audience, anybody who watches the film, wherever they feel that this is still relevant,
04:35something like this is still happening, they will also get to know what should be done.
04:58It was simplified to an extent, at least in my mind.
05:03Because honestly, initially I was very anxious.
05:08And when I used to come for reading, we used to talk to each other and I used to say,
05:14Sir, I don't understand anything, I don't understand where to start, what to do.
05:18And Sir used to say very relaxedly, nothing, just let it be, let go.
05:24Let go of what I don't know, but just let go and just do it.
05:28I think I got a lot of confidence from there.
05:32And obviously it was tough because I know who is there for Saru's wife.
05:39So initially you feel a little bit of baggage, but by the time you go for the shoot, you forget all this.
05:46So just calm, calm, calm.
05:48What is the most memorable scene in the film?
05:53I don't know about the most memorable scene, but it was very interesting.
05:57There are so many layers of this character.
06:00The kind of life he has lived, the kind of work he has done, we can't even think about it.
06:07If you talk to a small child without a name, he will feel that he was born from YouTube.
06:12He was not born like that, neither did he have a magical wand, nor did he have the power of magic.
06:21The greatest power he had was his self-confidence and his pride.
06:26Shakti means to be a leader.
06:29That without fear, he stood against the society and the society and a lot more.
06:36When we hear all this, we feel that something good will happen.
06:38But when we started doing this, there is a whole internal transformation that you feel.
06:44Like when you wear a costume on the set, you suddenly feel different.
06:48The only challenge was that when I was saying what he said, it shouldn't be that as an actor, I am left out.
06:56The impact of the work he has done should reach him.