We played a song from Main Hoon Na, Gori Gori, that one and I started dancing with her.
She said Khan saab, I will teach you and she did some moves and I was in awe then and she
just pulled me close and I was like, is anyone recording this?
This is good enough for me man. She comes up and she
says like, here’s a small gesture from a big fan of yours Daulat
When she met my co producer Amita and me, the first time she was like energetic and fused
and I am doing this and I want to do this and then I told her system we work with and that there is
no lights and there are 360 cameras and you know, when I told her all of this she was like
even more excited. She had never done workshops in her life before and she was embracing,
she embraced the workshop and she actually had a great time
In Main Hoon Na itself what was the character’s name?
Ms. Briganza was Archana Puran Singh and this one
Hello everyone and welcome to Pinkvilla. If there is one show that I am really looking forward
to that is Aarya 2 and I am here today with the team of this exciting show.
Hi guys.
So firstly, welcome to Pinkvilla. And like I said in my introduction, really it is one of the
shows which I am really looking forward to and even before I start speaking to the cast and
team, I want to ask you sir because I didn’t get to ask you in the first season, is there a history
behind the name Aarya? Why you selected the name?
I better make up a story. Immediately. So, it feels like an anecdote, there is so much
pressure. There is no history. I don’t know where I got from
I will tell you why Daulat was already booked.
Somebody had already registered the name Daulat
Now, spin off shows are happening. One will be of
Daulat, one will be of Khan, lot of spin off shows are happening
But you know that is one of my questions but it should happen because the characters are in
itself so strong, there is a possibility of a spin off, have you been writing something? Have
you been thinking about it?
We are not really actually. Right now, we are just want to get season 2 out so that if we
hoping people love it as much as season 1 so that we can get to make season 3.
Anecdote time, sorry. Sikander you will have to tell everybody
what happened this morning. Now it’s in your hand
Actually, made my day. So, I was flying from, I am shotting right now for something in
Gujarat. I flew back for this today and I leave in a but so I checked in a little early, 2 hours
before. My mask and all that, I sat down and then suddenly I am flying Indigo and this girl
comes up to me and says, excuse me sir. I said yes. Can you please board last? I said, what,
why. I mean like I don’t even have explosives in my luggage
because I don’t have luggage today that’s the only reason why
So anyways she comes up and she gave this to me which is really sweet. And she made a
card. This is good enough for me man. She comes up and she says like, here’s a small gesture
from a big fan of yours Daulat
And then she went on to put in a lovely photograph inside and write a lovely note and she
made over there and so for me, its like thank you. I am so sorry I didn’t ask your name
Sir, this is thanks to you to be honest
You know a surge in the OTT space has given a lot of things. Primarily two things, one it has
given a lot of work. And Akash sir if you can contribute here, you know there was a certain
time when actors of a certain vintage were only asked to play mother, father, father-in-law,
mother-in-law and it ended there but now the characters extend much beyond just those
aspects of a character. Are you enjoying this new lease of life or actors?
Its brilliant in terms of for anybody in the creative field, the opportunities, the kind of parts
that are being written, the kind of universe and the canvas that’s opened up, its amazing. I
mean, I have the first time I mean the technology has really favoured the creative person
The root word of technos is art. The Greek word, technology comes from technos which is art
I have 15 minutes. Can I extend this? This was lovely.
Can we speak more?
And Aarya actually the reason I thought the word Aarya came from art because
I got the story
Sir I have to ask you this also, it took, I am sure it took a lot to
get Sushmita Sen out of her acting hibernation
Yes, actually. I don’t know what made her say yes to us. Like I keep saying she has the
hierarchy of saying all actors actually all actors have the hierarchy, I am in the service of that
actor and I am really over her that I am happy that she said yes. You’ll have to ask her why
she said yes to us because when she met my co producer Amita and me, the first time she was
like energetic and fused and I am doing this and I want to do this and then I told her system
we work with and that there is no lights and there are 360 cameras and you know, when I told her
all of this she was like even more excited. She had never done workshops in her life before
and she was embracing, she embraced the workshop and
she actually had a great time and you can see in the show that she owns it
Absolutely you know Sushmita Sen has this tendency to make everyone her own. She gives
you this immense love which is her personality, I am sure everyone of you’ll have one
incident with Sushmita Sen, if you’ll could share those anecdotes
He has a great one actually which I was reading
That makes Sushmita Sen, she is all love for everyone. So as actors I have never been in awe
of her when performing with her you know. She is Aarya, I am ACP Khan and we do our
best to make the scene good. One of the days, next day was off we had a party, we were like
dancing, there was music and the entire crew. And we played a song from Main Hoon Na,
Gori Gori, that one and I started dancing with her. She said Khan saab, I will teach you and
she did some moves and I was in awe then and she just pulled
me close and I was like, is anyone recording this?
Did you make it to shoot next day?
It was off next day so I was like is anyone recording this? And she just turned me around and
she said, Khan saab look into my eyes, don’t ruin the moment
Sikander?
Daulat is in love with Aarya and Sush makes it really easy to be in love with her so she is
really cool to hang out with, her energy is amazing and as he said that’s how actually all our
evenings went. Everyone on the cast is superb and you know it actually comes down from
this one person called Ram. Two people, sorry. She is here right now. It genuinely down from
Ram and Amita Madhvani. Honestly speaking it’s just the energy that they give and it’s to
everybody I feel, it comes on everybody in a happy, good mood you know. They are just
feeling happy and there is positivity, the energy is lovely
To my team it’s like this
You can ask his team also. Even with his team, it's unbelievable. Ask them
Geetanjali?
Absolutely I feel that the as Sikander put it very rightly that the way Production operations
work is so comfortable that when we meet after the shoot in the evening Sushmita ji used to
come and talk to us. When I went for the first time, I thought they have done Aarya 1 and we
are coming in the second season so don’t know how will they treat us, they will have a
different group. We will be like the outsiders you know how you treat juniors and all, ragging
and stuff like that I thought there would be something like this but absolutely not. It was like
so friendly and everyone was talking and when Sushmita ji, when she met me for the first
time, she was talking about my character so I was surprised that she knows the part, the small
part that I am playing. And we have couple of scenes together so she was talking about that
as well so it was a surprise for me actually because I come
from a very independent zone of cinema and all
Akash sir, I think she must be in awe of you
No, respect only because I played her father many years ago. But that’s not real life, that’s
reel life. As for me, her good nature became a problem as a co actor for me because very
difficult being unkind to her. But otherwise as a collaborator she is just so wonderful
I have 2 minutes and I am going to put you on spot. I am going to ask you some questions
about Sushmita Sen and the thing is let’s see who knows Sushmita Sen better
So, the first question is, Sushmita Sen won her Miss Universe crown in which year?
1994. Amazing
Is there a gift or something?
There is no gift but I think one will reach home
I also knew that answer
You have to be fast.
Which is her first film?
Mahesh Bhatt’s film that I know
Dastak, I said Mahesh Bhat film
Lovely. She has won two Filmfare awards. One she is won for Aarya for Best Actress and
other one she has won for Best Supporting Actress, for which film?
Biwi No. 1
Wow. You really know her.
In fact, I had forgotten about Aarya
What’s her birth date?
19th November. Because shooting for Filhaal she hosted a party for us. On the 19th and
I mentioned it to her this time and she said you have an elephant’s memory
In Main Hoon Na she played a teacher, which subject she was teaching?
History. Chemistry
I was like let me try a chance. Let me guess a subject atleast.
And last question, in Main Hoon Na itself what was the character’s name?
Ms. Briganza was Archana Puran Singh and this one
She used to wear a red saree
And I used to think that I wish my teachers were like this too
Ms Chandani
But thank you so much
Thank you
I can’t wait for Aarya 2 and everything that you guys are doing in the future. All the very best.
Thank you. Thanks very much.