Bollywood Villain Ajit’s One & Only Interview: How He Became An Iconic Villain | Ajit’s Jokes - video Dailymotion

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Actor Ajit started as a hero in Hindi cinema. On Rajendra Kumar's advice, he tried playing a villain in Suraj and found success. Discover Ajit's transformation in this vintage Lehren interview.

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00:00 The tradition of that time was that the person whose film is a silver jubilee is called a hero.

00:08 And if he has done a good job, but if the film is not a silver jubilee, then he is an unlucky artist.

00:17 You scoundrels, you did a little work which we got. You became enemies of that too.

00:23 If I make one happy, I hurt the other. So I thought it is better I should retire.

00:30 Cut his hand and dip it in the paint. When the police will catch him, they will catch him red-handed.

00:45 Brother, as I said, if after working in 89 films, after being a hero for 20 years,

00:55 if you say that I did not make my place, then there is a reason for that.

01:00 The reason is that I was a little soft in the matter of singing,

01:06 because my face was not of a chocolate type that I would sing by roaming behind my heroine and behind the tree.

01:15 And besides Nargis ji, I have worked with all the top heroines.

01:24 And the good movies.

01:27 Now the tradition of that time was that the one whose film is a silver jubilee, is called a hero.

01:38 And if he has done a good job, but if the film is not a silver jubilee, then he is an unlucky artist.

01:47 But anyway, take it. But till now, being alive in this line and going back after 40 years,

02:00 and then coming back to serve you people, then you understand that no one, I mean, does not let you stay here.

02:09 And this is a river of fire and you have to drown in it.

02:14 And anyway, someone has said that sir, no matter how big a hero he is in the world,

02:27 after a few years he starts to get bored.

02:31 So I thought that sir, it shouldn't be that I start getting bored before this.

02:37 We had a very good friend, poor friend, Mr. Rajinder Kumar.

02:44 Mr. Rajinder Kumar gave me advice that look, sir, the thing is that now the age of color has come

02:53 and very expensive movies are being made.

02:56 So now no one will give you the chance of a hero.

03:00 So there is a movie that we are making in Madras, a very good movie, which is called Suraj.

03:08 And in which I am the hero, Vijayanti Mala is the heroine and you have the role of a villain.

03:16 And if you do it, then I will feel very comfortable.

03:19 Because it was a short film, and we were good at this matter.

03:27 After that, consider that this era started after 1966.

03:35 And the interesting thing was that when people found out that I was doing a villain in Madras,

03:41 then all the 2, 4, 5, 6 movies I had, black and white, as a hero, they came running to me.

03:48 Sir, what will happen to us? We are dead, we have gone to work.

03:52 So I said, brother, think about one thing, it will take 1.5-2 years to make this movie.

03:58 And after that, slowly your movies will end after a little bit.

04:04 But let me also think a little about my future.

04:08 I wanted a new book of accounts to start in life.

04:13 So sir, it started. The movie was released. The movie was a hit.

04:19 Now after that, we will say that sir, what was the reaction of the people?

04:25 One of our deceased friends, God gave him peace.

04:34 When it premiered in Minerva, he was sitting down and he saw me a lot.

04:41 When I got down in the interval, he saw me a lot.

04:45 And these were his words, I apologize for the insult.

04:50 He said, you scoundrels, you left a lot of work that we used to get.

04:54 You became enemies of him too. Now he used to do the villain in it.

04:58 So friends, I laughed, I said, brother, I have done it in one movie,

05:04 you have worked in so many movies. And see what happens, I don't know.

05:12 So this was the reaction of all the colleagues.

05:16 You have always been an actor with a very stylish acting.

05:22 Is that the real look to you or something you have done only for the film?

05:28 I am a very stupid kind of a man.

05:35 But while living in Bombay, while meeting some people,

05:43 I met some people who saw their style, their white hair, their dresses, etc.

05:55 and wanted to see if this is the situation of the villain in this way.

06:02 And a movie that became very famous, because of which I started saying dialogues,

06:12 that movie was, what is the name, Zanjeer.

06:18 And actually the name that was given to me, Dharam Teja,

06:23 so coincidentally I met that gentleman in a party.

06:28 And I saw that he is such a cool and calm man,

06:35 and a very strong case was waged against him at that time.

06:39 But there was no difference in talking to that man,

06:48 and he spoke very calmly and sweetly.

06:53 So I felt that if I copy his name in this movie,

07:01 it would be very good.

07:04 Coincidentally, that movie changed the fate of many people.

07:11 Director, producer, hero, writer, and my fate was also changed.

07:21 After that, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 movies were continuously hit.

07:27 And people accepted me as a villain.

07:33 And today, even after so many years, I have come.

07:39 So you think that if a man comes back after 7-8 years,

07:44 then maybe this will be the first such incident of the industry,

07:51 that a man comes back and is taken away by force.

07:54 And so much love and affection people showed,

07:58 that I felt that an individual from his own house

08:03 has gone away in anger, and then came back,

08:06 so the way people love him.

08:09 There was a screen party,

08:11 in which Dev Sahab said, "How can you leave us?

08:15 We are your family, and you shouldn't go here and all."

08:20 So I really thought that Dev Sahab is very much right.

08:24 And I felt very happy that I have come back to my family.

08:31 And now you will say that why did I go?

08:36 The reason for leaving was that in our film industry,

08:42 the ill-manneredness had increased so much,

08:47 that the poor producer used to say to me,

08:51 "Mr. Ajit, if you come at 10 o'clock,

08:55 then you will see that your first shot will come."

08:58 I said, "Okay, I will come, sir."

09:01 Poor our makeup dada, he was also very particular,

09:05 he had a beard, moustache, and wig,

09:08 and now he is sitting in the mirror, looking at his face.

09:11 It was found that the artists who were with him,

09:14 they did not come.

09:16 Now the poor guy would run and the assistant would come,

09:20 and he would say, "We have taken a break at 12.30,

09:24 if we take an early break, they will come by 2.30."

09:27 I said, "Okay."

09:28 Now he sat and kept looking at his face,

09:31 read the book, played cards, everything.

09:35 Now it was found that he came at 4.30-5.00.

09:39 And there is another shift from 7.00,

09:43 and the producer of the second shift is also very strict,

09:46 SK Kapoor.

09:48 He said, "How can this be?"

09:50 I said, "Mr. Kapoor, it is such that I will finish his work."

09:53 He said, "How can that be?

09:55 I have Hemamalini, Shashi Kapoor with me."

09:57 He said, "And I will not leave you, understand."

10:00 I said, "Brother, you decide."

10:03 So when such incidents happened many times,

10:06 I felt that if I make one person happy,

10:10 then I hurt the other.

10:12 So I thought it is better I should retire.

10:16 Because now, it may be that before I start boring people,

10:21 if I leave, it is very good.

10:23 So according to this, I went back.

10:26 Now you will say, "Sir, what is the reason for your return and how did you come?"

10:32 So sir, I did not come, I was brought.

10:36 I thought that maybe I am not a stubborn person.

10:40 But I felt that there is another person more stubborn than me,

10:45 whose name is Saleem Akhtar.

10:47 Okay, this decent man, I worked in his first film,

10:52 "Kyoron ki baraat".

10:54 After that, he made many films and in every film,

10:59 he offered me some role and I used to say, "No brother, let me go."

11:06 But I am sure that whenever he slept,

11:14 although he does not sleep much at this age, but whenever she used to come,

11:18 then it used to happen that such dreams used to appear that,

11:24 "Sir, I am doing shooting, today I am with him, tomorrow with him,

11:30 sometimes with Amitabh, sometimes with Jalinder, sometimes with Rajesh Khanna and this."

11:35 So this thing started haunting me.

11:39 After that, I started playing cards in the club,

11:42 I used to roam around on the farm, a lot of things.

11:45 But still I feel that one thing that was embedded in my blood,

11:52 it repeatedly demanded that,

11:55 "No, what you are doing, nothing will happen with it."

12:01 And during that time, when this time Saleem spoke very strongly,

12:07 then I said, "Okay brother, let's go."

12:10 But I kept some conditions.

12:12 See, that man's greatness, I said, "Brother, I will go, these are my conditions.

12:17 I will do the work for two days and see.

12:20 And if I am not able to do it, because I don't know what will be my position,

12:26 then I will run away, you will not feel bad."

12:29 That man said this.

12:32 He said, "Sir, maybe you don't have confidence in yourself,

12:37 but we have confidence in you.

12:40 That's why we want to take you."

12:43 So really, I felt that there are still people

12:50 who have confidence in someone and can take such a big risk.

12:55 I said, "Very good, let's go."

12:58 And coincidentally, when I started working,

13:01 it felt like it was yesterday, I have not forgotten any lesson.

13:06 I remember all the ABCD.

13:09 So the work started.

13:12 And thank God I finished that movie.

13:15 Then after that, they said, "When you have finished this,

13:19 then do the second one, Jigar."

13:22 I said, "Okay, let's do that too."

13:24 Now that they have come, let's start.

13:29 So I did their movie too.

13:32 After that, two or three more producers came,

13:36 who were very reasonable.

13:38 By the way, I heard so many stories,

13:41 during this period, people understood that,

13:44 like our film industry has a demand,

13:47 and it has always been from the beginning,

13:50 and all the journalists and paper people,

13:54 I am grateful and grateful to them,

13:57 that they gave me so much publicity,

14:00 I could not even imagine.

14:02 Then when people came to know,

14:05 they ran away.

14:06 Then I came to know that,

14:08 a new story was coming every day.

14:10 I said, "I have done this work, how is it now?"

14:13 "Is this the same story?"

14:15 They said, "No, sir,

14:16 the stories you make these days,

14:18 they are all the same.

14:20 There is nothing new in it."

14:22 I said, "Forgive me, I cannot do these things."

14:26 You asked, "Sir, how do you feel,

14:28 when your dialogues are repeated,

14:31 and after that,

14:33 you must be watching on TV,

14:36 that in this and that Maggie,

14:39 and in that,

14:40 old memories are fresh,

14:45 and this is not the same.

14:47 Now people have made some jokes,

14:50 they are called Ajit's jokes.

14:53 A boy was our friend,

14:54 he had come from America,

14:56 he was our son's friend,

14:58 we had a little chat.

14:59 He said, "Uncle, Uncle,

15:00 you have not heard this joke?"

15:02 And till that time,

15:03 I did not have any thought of coming to the film.

15:05 I said, "No, son."

15:06 He said, "After leaving the film line,

15:08 you had a passion for cricket,

15:11 and you started playing cricket.

15:13 And you are representing India,

15:16 and you went as an opening batsman.

15:21 And on that side, Imran Khan,

15:22 you got out on the first ball.

15:25 So, you walked to the umpire,

15:27 and you said to the umpire,

15:28 "Make it a no-ball,

15:29 by looking at him."

15:32 He said, "Yes?"

15:33 I said, "Make it a no-ball."

15:35 He said, "Don't be silly."

15:37 I said, "Make it a no-ball,

15:39 think it over."

15:41 He said, "No, you are out."

15:43 Then I looked at the crowd,

15:45 and I said,

15:46 "Robert, show him his wife and children."

15:49 Then the umpire said,

15:50 "It was a no-ball."

15:52 So, these sort of jokes were there.

15:54 I mean, you feel happy

15:56 when you hear all these things.

15:58 Even some good papers,

16:03 they have given all the jokes about me.

16:06 "Cut his hand,

16:09 and dip it in the paint.

16:13 When the police will get him,

16:15 when the police will catch him,

16:16 they will catch him red-handed."

16:18 "And then put him in another case,

16:23 and get him out of that one."

16:25 There are many such people.

16:27 So, these sort of jokes were made.

16:30 So, sir, it is a joy

16:33 that whatever I have done for so many years,

16:35 I have got some reward for it.

16:37 And it is the same,

16:38 that you tell me,

16:39 how many people are there in the world

16:41 who have not received anything

16:46 that they have got some happiness,

16:49 or they have got some reward,

16:51 like Michelangelo,

16:52 and these big artists,

16:54 and all these people.

16:55 Sir, they become popular after their death.

16:58 My wife had said something very nice.

17:00 She said,

17:02 "Sir, you are very lucky

17:06 that when you came back,

17:08 people came to know,

17:10 and people come from morning to evening,

17:12 journalists, etc.,

17:13 take your interview.

17:15 Otherwise, it would have been like,

17:17 after you,

17:18 children would have come and asked,

17:19 "How was your father?"

17:21 "And how was your treatment with them?"

17:23 "What kind of talks did they have with you?"

17:26 So, thank God,

17:27 that you are there,

17:28 so everything is being asked from you.

17:30 (Music)

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