Indian stars Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel discuss their latest film 'Gadar 2'

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Bollywood actors Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel, who were in Dubai recently to celebrate the blockbuster success of ‘Gadar 2’, have an interesting theory about why the sequel to their 2001 romance has set the box office on fire.  Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/bollywood/sunny-deol-and-ameesha-patel-talk-blockbuster-triumph-with-gadar-2-1.97781687  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #sunnydeol #gadar2

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00:00I think the sound of the clink clink clink is very beautiful. I can do a song on that.

00:05Man Nikhila, wo gandhi leke, pari jao, pari jao.

00:21Seriously, exactly well done. Did you expect it to be such a phenomenal bit, both of you?

00:27Well, I was, I mean, I don't know what it was because, you see, Gadar 1 itself had set its own tone by itself.

00:33The people loved it and they took it where it had to go. And I was very sure either my Gadar 2 would not do it

00:40or it would do it equally to that point because it would connect to the same people and because we have, the family is the same,

00:47everything is the same, nothing has changed. It's just the time has changed from 45 to 71 and the duration is from there to there.

00:57And the story, I mean, and they will relate to it. I was very sure about it. But it could go either way.

01:02But it could not be in between, you know. I was not, I was, no middle path for it. Aadhe thalle hiya utte.

01:08Right. How about you, Amisha? As Sakina, I guess, you know, people still remember you for that iconic role.

01:14I feel privileged. It doesn't happen in the history of cinema that cult films that go down in the archives as actually film history

01:24get a sequel, you know. And I think the beauty of Gadar 2 is that they didn't make a project.

01:30The heck of it, you know, just for the heck of making a sequel, make a sequel, add an item song, change the actors,

01:37do all those calculated things. This was a real film with a real family. And people used to tell me all the time

01:46that your film Gadar is not a film, it's an emotion. And everybody lives with Tara and Sakina in their hearts.

01:53And I used to say, okay, you know, maybe they're just saying this to me because I'm in front of them or they know me.

02:00But I think the validation has come from the kind of craze, gadar mania, gadar hysteria for part two

02:07that people were genuinely interested and loving to see what happens in their family's life, the next chapter.

02:13Right. And that's a very overwhelming feeling. Still taking time to sink it in. But very blessed and very grateful.

02:21Of course. And I revisited the original yesterday. And I was wondering, it takes a lot of courage to go back to,

02:28because it's a very simple movie. At the end of the day, it's about humanity triumphing over divides, right?

02:32How did you know, how can you make it more relevant, especially at a time when OTT is all about being racy, risqué, like being extra?

02:40I don't know why we keep talking about relevant, relevant, modern cinema, this, cinema, that. All that is just simply being created by people.

02:47The art is something which is beautiful and it has to connect to the people. And if you are connecting to the people, that is it.

02:54Baaki log uski thesis karte hain, aisa nahi karna chahiye, wo karna chahiye. And I don't see anybody actually

03:00contributing towards what the actual people want. And then we start talking about this is masters, this is classes.

03:06Who is a class? We are all people. You know, yeh elite hai, yeh. I don't understand. What do you mean by saying you are elite?

03:14So, who the hell are you, man? I don't know. I don't know why they do that. We are all the same. We are all the same.

03:23We are just the public. We are just the people, right? I don't know why they want to make themselves like that.

03:28And when it, what doesn't, because these few sector of these people, they don't know what country is all about.

03:36They don't know what the world is about. They live in their own doom. And they think that's what the doom, I mean, that's,

03:41I mean, I don't know what I use on the bubble. And they think that's the way the world has to be. I mean,

03:48and then, because they are sitting there and everything, so they keep talking so many things.

03:52I mean, I feel odd when I talk too much also. Don't talk, just enjoy and appreciate something good over there.

04:00And it may be not your taste. You don't eat, everybody is not eating one kind of food. They go eat variety of foods.

04:06You can't say, no, this is the food you should eat and that is bullshit. Can't.

04:10Then why make these restrictions and formulas, you know. Make all, cinema is for everyone.

04:16And every kind of cinema. Every genre can be made. Every kind of thing can be made. Don't put brackets to it.

04:22Don't label them. Don't label them. Go enjoy them and don't criticize somebody who is liking it because you don't like it.

04:29And then, I just say, just be kind and be nice man. –Of course. And you know, can I just say, it was so heartening to see you come back.

04:37With you, I knew you would be the hero because generally heroes in the installments, it's a given. But women are often interchangeable.

04:44They change for some weird reason. But in your case, I think their shows… –You are putting your woman down.

04:49I am not. –You as a woman, you are doing that. Don't do that. –You are often interchangeable. I mean, come on.

04:55Even the actors, anybody gets changeable. That is not the thing. Again, all these things happen is because the creative guy

05:03or the financial guy or the guy who wants to make it feels he knows how to do it. So, keep doing all those things, you know.

05:10But in reality, gadar too has to have the same family. In other words, gadar doesn't exist. It is this parivaar

05:17jisne gadar banaya tha. Aur uss parivaar ko logon ne gadar tak gadar bajadiya uska.

05:21Toh parivaar waisa nahi hoga, toh gadar nahi dekhne aayenge. Woh nahi jaana chahenge. –Right. –So, you know, that's what…

05:27People always say, you know, Tara plus Sakina equals gadar. –You guys come as a unit. –Yeah, absolutely. –Right.

05:32How have you seen each other evolve? Like, you look at each other, do you guys reminisce about the first day back in 2001, etc. or no?

05:40Or you guys are like, I don't look back? –Nothing. I mean, there is no point looking back because it's a journey.

05:45It's a mountain you are climbing and you are going to carry on climbing. I mean, life is a process and we keep moving and moving.

05:53And the beauty is of that, you know. And then when they say, oh, it's the same like how it was so many years ago, you feel wow.

06:00I mean, we have been able to give that magic on that silver screen, make them believe it is still the same. That's what an actor wants to do. –Right.

06:08That's what, that's our victory. –You know, it's a testament to that movies work. Good movies work irrespective. Good stories, I would say.

06:16Yeah, I mean, every movie jo banata, wo achi picture hi banana chahata. Nobody wants to make a bad movie. Right?

06:22It's just the flavor is little here, flavor is little there. Jisko flavor nahin acha lagta, wo bolta ki yeh gandhi hai.

06:27Jisko wo flavor acha lagta, wo achi hai. So, I think you should just stop doing all that. Go enjoy cinema.

06:33It's not meant to be criticized. It's meant to be enjoyed. –Entertaining. –It's entertaining. –So, I am assuming you guys have not read any of the reviews.

06:40Because you are like, let's… –I did. I did see one or two. I did see people talk bullshit. But then again, you know,

06:47that's because you want to know what's happening. But I have never bothered about this over my years in my life.

06:52I said, if you are talented, you exist. If you are not, you don't. And if you are talented, you don't need to go and shout about it.

06:59You just keep floating in it. –Amisha, do you share his sentiment as well? –Absolutely. I think Sunny and I are very similar people.

07:06Being, you know, our profession is filmmaking, being part, being actors. But we are very apolitical.

07:14We don't belong to camps. We don't bitch, we don't gossip. We don't run people down. We have never been in controversies ever.

07:21You know, I have, of course, he is too senior to me. I am a baby compared to his legacy of work.

07:27And I think that stood him in good stead too. Because 40 years and counting, no one has that record of being the leading man and how.

07:36And being scandal free. –And being scandal free. I think that's our off-screen persona, chemistry.

07:44Cleanliness in our heart is what showed the magic of Tara and Sakina. Again, people believe that they are madly in love.

07:50You know, and that's the beauty that came across on screen. It's just magical. –Right. Did you guys go to theatres, etc?

07:58People, actors do that often? –I did. I did. I mean, see, now I am here, today I am going to go to the theatres.

08:05I have been all over the country going to all the theatres without letting them know I am there. –Yes. –Because the beauty is when

08:11I go there because they have been loving it. I have been seeing it on the news.

08:14The way they are coming in tractors and they are just jumping from here to there. Everywhere. I mean, they are coming from everywhere.

08:22They just want to come and enjoy and the joy they have on their face. And it's brought all the communities together.

08:28It is not just one. –I mean, yesterday we landed in Dubai and had a set of people come up to me and say congratulations Sakina ma'am for your film.

08:38And we live in Africa. There are no theatres there. So, we have flown to Mumbai to see your film on the big screen because they wanted that viewing experience.

08:46This is what Gadar has done. It's made people fly internationally and that's a very heartening feeling, you know, 22 years down.

08:53And I used to tease him always. I used to say, Tom Cruise did it with Top Gun 30 years later. Tara Singh is going to do it now.

09:00You just marked my words. I used to always tell him that. –That's true. And you know, that's interesting you say.

09:04I keep seeing West has all these Avengers series and all these series with the powers. You just extract things off the ground, don't you?

09:12You have very, you keep it real. Is that your thing? –Yeah, I have always been a person who believes in the realism of emotions and everything.

09:23Because there is nothing beyond that. –Really? –I like to be as rooted as possible. –Right. Last question of all the scenes in this

09:31which has been your most favourite one where you still have goosebumps. I can tell you mine. Mine is a kid singing and you come up to, you know, you from the…

09:41Get the instinct that… –Get the instinct that you suddenly wake up from the bed. I was like, that's as dramatic as it gets. But still works.

09:49In your case, is there such a scene? –I mean, for me what happens is, I get so indulged in the film that I never feel I have done something right.

09:59No way. You still… –I don't mean that way. I mean, because being an actor, you know, when you are doing, we see so many things about how we are doing it and make it happen.

10:10What gives me goosebumps is the reaction the people do when they watch it and the way they react to what we have done.

10:17That is the satisfaction. That is what makes the, gives me the whole magic, oh, wow! I thought I was not so, but they have loved it way beyond that

10:28and you just thank the almighty because that's the beauty of it. –Also I think one beautiful moment is when Tara Singh takes the instrument and ta-na-na starts.

10:38That did it for people. –Yes. It was highly emotional. –It was highly emotional. I know I got messages and DMs and things.

10:45As soon as that song was released on YouTube and they said it's on loop, we are playing it on loop and we are crying and howling.

10:51And they had the same reactions when they went to the theatre and saw us back with that theme song, you know, and they were like,

10:58it just flushed us with memories and we were howling in the cinemas and those kind of reactions. –Yeah. And the other thing I think is when, obviously, the way the story goes,

11:07when the son is completely in, going to be knocked out and they are asking him, what is your last khoish kya hai?

11:14And then the father comes over there and says, beta apne baap se minna chahega. That is something which everybody wants.

11:23Yeah! You want the father to be here. –It's like the father to the rescue. –Yes. –It's like the father's no best. Do you really believe that?

11:31Yes. Because you always, no matter how old, how young you are, I mean, I am old, so I can still say the same thing,

11:38is that you always look up to your father to come and help you. –For sure. –And if the father comes over there, the world seems, my thing, here is my giant.

11:47I know, I love it how this entire family is going through a moment of reckoning. Your dad is on the big screen, you are having this.

11:54It's, I think, the sweetest time for your family, I guess. –Yeah, it is. –In terms of career-wise, I would say. –Yeah, it is.

12:00All of us are there, all of our films are happening, everything is there. I mean, like I always keep saying,

12:05because my son got married, his daughter is at home and she is the lucky charm, I would say, who has entered into our family.

12:13And things have started becoming beautiful. –Right. –And my dad did a film just now, I think everybody loves him over there.

12:20And they ask him, he did that. I said, that's, my dad can carry off anything. –And the way he answered the press was the cutest.

12:27Too charming. Dharamji charm was full on. –Good for him. I am like good for him. He had fun with the role. –Yeah, he enjoys everything.

12:35I saw the film, but trust me, the maximum CTs and hooting happened when Dharamji's that particular moment came out.

12:43They were like, wow! –People were rooting for him. Trust me. –Amazing. –I think the old people were rooting more. –No, no, the youngsters.

12:48There is nothing as old. –It was universally they were loving him. –It's a kind of a feel dad has, with the world connects, the way they connect with him.

12:57And they just love him. –No, but is that the kind of legacy that you hope to enjoy as well? I mean, he is far more senior. I mean, he has been around for decades.

13:05They have seen him in all colours. In your case as well, do you want people to know? –I don't know. I mean, it's just a path.

13:11Wherever it takes me and whatever it does and whatever I achieve and whatever the people give to me is what I am looking for.

13:17And I just want to carry on working. That's all. –And scandal free. Both of you are scandaloverses. I did look up scandals between us but nothing came up.

13:25I did a workbook and clearly they lead a clean life. So, that's good. –There is nothing as scandal or clean and this and pure.

13:32There is nothing pure. There is nothing perfect. We all are as good and bad as the other, one another.

13:38It is how you conduct yourself and you can and just see that you are, I mean, just be, you have to be a human being.

13:46You can't be anybody else. But don't be something which is going to destroy everything and that. –No, but you have done so well and you have entertained us.

13:53I think at the end of the day, that's the pattern, right? –Yeah, that's what it is basically. –You have entertained us. –We are just human being in a cinema line

13:58where anything we do is blown out of proportion. –It's escalated, yeah. –No, it's epic. I mean, and also I am so happy that you guys have achieved success with this.

14:07Because it was a true test. You know, it could have, like you said, got anyway. –Anyway. –And it was a shot in the dark, well done.

14:14And is there a third one coming? –I think now we will go for a third one. Yeah, we will. –Followed by the success. –Yeah, yeah.

14:20No, more than the success, I know that the people are wanting this franchising, they want this family to be the way it is and they want to see where the family goes ahead in life.

14:29And that will be interesting. –Yeah, let's have Millionaire Langs do it.

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