The opportunities I was waiting for all this time came at once, but I cannot use that as an excuse to not give my 100%.
I tried asking this question to myself, I had no answer, my mind is blank in that space because I don't have anything in my mind that I want to do this only.
You played a teacher in 'A Thursday', a cop over here and in the next one you're playing a lawyer. Yes, I'm like Govinda from 'Raja Babu' I have one picture on every profession.
Thank God Aditya didn't see that before and he knows that I'm an actor.
I loved the first part, I mean we all have and it was interesting.
Hi guys this is Himesh and welcome to Pinkvilla. Today we have with us Yami Gautam who is all gearing up for the release of 'Dasvi'.
Welcome to Pinkvilla Yami, it's lovely having you here. Thank you same here, and congratulations on the success of 'A Thursday' and the wonderful trailer of Dasvi.
It feels so good to hear this, thank you so much. You know my first question to you is, you play a cop in over hear- how was it to play a cop for the I think it's the first time that you're playing a proper cop?
Every role that you play comes with a lot of responsibility and especially when you know you're so pivotal to the story and you want to make a difference to everything that you know
you do roles with professions that people look up to in real life, you've grown up feeling inspired for them, you cannot afford to go wrong there be it your uniform or mannerisms or your language
The way you speak, but we already have an image in our mind of how the cops talk. But that's not true. Like we behave or speak specific ways in certain situations, the cops, too, are similar.
When they're on the field, they're different again; when they're in their house, they are different; they don't need to talk in that particular tone or way when they are at work.
So I thought I should incorporate those nuances in my character. It was a lot of hard work, but it's always worth it when you put it in the right place
but you know I believe you shot for this film and right after this film you jumped into 'A Thursday', I think one day later. How is it- yeah this is-
How is it for you to jump from one place to another wherein the characters are actually so different in one you're playing a cop and another you're taking on the cops? Yes, that's right. Oh yes.
I just I still feel I'm jumping from someplace to another my mind is still jumping I think yeah actually it just this time of the year, last year
when I was shooting for 'Dasvi' in Agra inside the jail and then came back and quickly went to you know 'A Thursday's set
The opportunities I was waiting for all this time came at once, but I cannot use that as an excuse to not give my 100% or the audience feel that I have not put in any effort and it seems the same.
Yeah, some people never like anything, but that's different. I'm talking about others should feel that I've put effort into my role; it's my job to play a character convincingly.
So you need to work hard and I remember that I used to prepare for Dasvi and A Thursday simultaneously one in the morning and - it's quite difficult and I'm sure any actor would agree to it
that you would want to do one role at a time as immersing yourself in it and focus on it entirely but because of lockdown, we didn't have much time, so I had no other option
A Thursday yes but thank you for all the love and thank you for all the support. it's now Dasvi's turn and all the hard work is paying out so it feels nice.
But you know a lot of people are now saying that you know it was refreshing to see you in a very serious space be it in 'A Thursday' or now even in the trailer of 'Dasvi', there are serious undertones to your character
It's now that people are appreciating but I believe even when I saw you In Kaabil there was that element that you know you had that sense of seriousness in that character which you got into perfectly
So if you have to speak about three of your most challenging roles which would they be?
Definitely A Thursday okay I can't pick only three, okay
A Thursday definitely, I would pick Bala opposite from you know if you think I'm good at playing an intense role, but that was a totally different role amusing but not slapstick. It's very realistic
She was drama, loud, and did TikTok videos and all, but I love the fact that she was inhibition less.
She was very comfortable and unapologetic about who she was, A Thursday because it's the story of a girl who suffered a lot at a vulnerable age; she or anybody else should never face anything like that.
And she felt wrong and when life came back and made her stand at the same point which she thought has gone you know she's long past that but it never is yeah it comes back
because it never leaves you, so she decides to do something which that's what the story but the last fifteen minutes of the movie, which is where the heart and soul of the film was and that was very intense
Because at that time I thought I'm connecting and I'm representing women, girls, parents, mothers and everybody out there who's concerned about their child.
And then should I say?
Vicky Donor? Or should I say, Uri? It's my first film, so first are always special, so first is always special although I get nervous before any film that I start but you know it'll always be-
That time I was what I was 22, this is almost ten years back, I got a very substantial role to debut with, it was a very mature and balanced performance that I got to do, you know
But I'll add Uri also. I'll add Uri because, for the first time, a director trusted that you know before Uri, of course, I did Kaabil and Vicky Donor, but I still wasn't getting the roles I wanted to do, or I thought I had the potential to do as an actor.
With Uri for the first time, someone trusted me and no matter for how long the screen-time was, for me, it was enough that yes, I could make an impact, and she has a voice of her own she has a standing of her own
So someone thought of me differently and not in that sense you know just make her a damsel in distress and you know all those things that's right.
Abhishek Bachchan you know there is such an interesting dynamic that the two of you have in the trailer, how was it you know actually you are the one who is you know-
the tough one who is trying to put sense in him if we look at it in one way. How was it to put this sort of dynamic on-screen with someone like him?
That is what it comes across in the trailer when we watch the film again it's much more than that because
Jyoti is someone who would believe in reforming believe that as much as a person can be reformed it's better everybody should be given another chance.
But with him it's going to be interesting to see the dynamics because he is a minister; he has seen so much power, and now suddenly you know it's there in the first dialogue of the trailer that he'll not lower his head and asks to open the big gate.
So imagine that kind of person coming in my jail and he must be expecting you know some loads of air show around and everything, so what if he's in jail he'll still be you know-
But it is not possible because with the kind of person she is under her nose under watch it's never going to happen, so how do they both you know kind of balance it out and what is it and what happens that he decides to do 'Dasvi'
And how will he do it? A man like him? From the jail, he can't step out he can't go out he can't leave and yeah you know you said that before Uri, not enough characters were coming your way in terms of the kind of roles that you wanted to do
So now with so much success coming your way, what are the kind of characters that you want to do? And what are the kind of films that you want to associate yourself with?
I tried asking this question to myself, I had no answer, my mind is blank in that space because I don't have anything in my mind that I want to do this only. I know what I don't want to do
Or if I read a script no not this I need something more I need something more substantial with something which is more convincing and inspiring for me to read as an actor and as
an audience because now people have seen a lot there's a lot happening, you have access to a lot of content within your palm's reach,
so we need to stretch ourselves, and we have to think out of the box to have ourselves stand out so I'm looking for such challenges I'm looking for such scripts in every genre
I want to do comedy again, I want to do thriller again but if you ask me in the heart I love costume dramas I love fantasy world so that also I would love to do
Zombie is the only world that I don't connect with okay uh I know it's a huge success but personally-
That's the only space that- you don't... I mean yeah that's because I don't watch it. Rest I watch everything so
You played a teacher in 'A Thursday', a cop over here and in the next one 'Oh My God' you're playing a lawyer. Yes, I'm like Govinda from 'Raja Babu' I have one picture of every profession.
Thank God Aditya didn't see that before and he knows that I'm an actor. So my question is how is it to jump from professions like from one profession to another is like
What are your approaches to such characters? When you're playing a character which is something in real-life like there's a profession you're playing on-screen?
First, to get the basics right you know as you said for every profession like if you're a cop your uniform should be correctly done you should have the correct mannerisms
If I get to play the role of someone in the army, it has to look realistic then you have to make sure that you follow all the protocols you know if you're an army person and if you're at a senior rank no one can just do this to you even jokingly
It's wrong no one can do that even if you might be friends off the field but in terms of- you don't do that- you don't have the stature you're not-
Out of respect... you don't do that so make sure I'll try and be as much authentic as possible in my approach to be a lawyer you know in terms of to get the basics right and then just as in real life there could be thousands of lawyers
Thousands of teachers, thousands of cops but they are all different you know yet from one another depending on their situation depending on the kind of person that they are
The same way I approach the character like okay they're a lawyer but it's a story you know and as I said like some of-
Some of the most senior officers or officials if you meet them in real life you won't even get to know that how senior they are they'll be the simplest humble down-to-earth people with a smile and doing the deadliest things on the field
And doing their job. It's hard to connect both the people- Switching off and switching on yeah
There's 'Oh My God 2' even that is set against the backdrop of education system how excited are you for that film?
Yeah it's on a peculiar aspect of the education system of course we would talk about it when we get there, very excited I loved the first part I think we all did. Yeah.
And it's quite interesting that they picked up a topic and they kind of made it coexist with the faith especially in our country where we all have different backgrounds we all come from different cultures we all have a different set of beliefs so...
But how do you implement then something which you feel is a necessity and everybody is convinced about it and everybody's on the same page so it's not easy but that's the film it's
it's quite going to be I think interesting when you watch it. And what next for you apart from these two projects happening ?
I have Lost, I have, that's been directed by Anirudh Roy Chowdhury, I play a journalist in that, oh one more
I play a crime beat journalist and it's an investigative drama with an undertone of emotional thriller and it also talks subtly somewhere about the media integrity in today's time
Again that's also a thriller but in a totally different space and then there's another one which I shot which you'll hear about soon uh very soon, I've already finished shooting for it and that's this journey of a girl
You'd probably think that yeah she's any other girl who's walking down the street and so does she feel about herself but you know sometimes it happens
The most unexpected things happen from the least expected people in her life so and that's also a thriller but a different kind of thriller so
And then next I'm shooting a film called Dhoom Dham and that's a romantic comedy.
Thank you so much it was lovely talking to you same here I wish you all the best for Dasvi, thank you yes; all the other films that you have in line thank you so much.
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