Late actor Manoj Kumar's son Kunal Kumar, in an interview with India Today, opened up about the lessons he learnt from his father, his filmography, legacy and more. The Bollywood legend died in April 4. He was 87.
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00:00Today is a very sad day for the Indian cinema as Manoj Kumar passes away.
00:05We have his son Kunal, hi Kunal, sorry for your loss.
00:09Thank you, thank you.
00:11It is a great loss not only to us as a family, I feel it's a great loss to the nation and
00:18to the entire film industry because he himself was a legacy and he was somebody who has passed
00:27on his message to many generations to come and of course his zeal for patriotism was
00:36always something which the people loved and flavoured it a lot.
00:44The beautiful part of his work is that even films he has made in the 60s like Upkaar or
00:51then Pura Barpashyam, these films and these stories and these relationships are still
00:56relevant today.
00:57So he of course saw or projected something which is still relative today so he had a
01:06good far sight towards it and of course the industry knows he had his own technique of
01:11film making and direction and his sense of songs, they will definitely be missed.
01:17As a kid what was your favourite films of Manoj sir, you know he has so many but.
01:24I have not seen his films as films because for us it was always a teaching.
01:29He would always insist that we should learn and he would explain why this is being done
01:35this way instead of we just sing something to like it.
01:40It was always you understand the meaning of why I am doing this, then it will stay in
01:45your mind.
01:46So every film has its own uniqueness and its own identity where many different different
01:52things sure had its own uniqueness of the story.
01:55It was a very small story but it was a beautifully woven script.
02:01Of course Kranti was a very huge scale film where he had really overstretched himself
02:08but he managed to do a great job.
02:11So he has taught us film making in many many aspects of be it editing, be it direction,
02:18be it writing, be it taking.
02:21So I can't really pinpoint a film.
02:24But as his son how are you planning to take his legacy forward also in terms of films
02:30you know how do you plan?
02:31Well we plan to get into film making very soon again, we have not been doing it actually
02:36we have been very busy because his health was not supporting him and it was taking all
02:41our time but unfortunately we could not do the best that we could I guess but God had
02:47his own wish and his own will.
02:50So hopefully soon we will get into production again.
02:53Any last wish of his that you would like to fulfill was the production coming back into
02:57production was one of them?
02:58His wish was always to keep making films.
03:01That was the only thing he knew.
03:03So obviously it would be to revive the legacy and revive the company and to revive film
03:09production again.
03:10And he is also getting you know state honours tomorrow what do you have to say about that?
03:14Well that is a privilege very few get and we are honoured about that and we are thankful
03:19to the Indian government, to the Maharashtra government and I honestly feel it is well-deserved.
03:28Thank you so much sir for talking to us.
03:29Thank you Anand.