Bollywood actors Akshay Kumar, Tiger Shroff on their Eid film, ‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’ in Dubai

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00:00Good afternoon, this is Manjusha Radhakrishnan from Gulf News and Eid has come a day early

00:09for us with two of the biggest action stars of Bollywood.

00:13They are the most disciplined, talented and prolific.

00:17Both of them come out with movies and they look amazing together.

00:20Firstly, Akshay and Taiga, I am so happy that there are two heroes in this movie and Prithviraj

00:25as well as a super villain.

00:26So good to see actors come together.

00:29Do you think this is how it should be, how Bollywood should function?

00:34Any would should function.

00:35Whether it's Hollywood or Bollywood or any would.

00:39Every would should function.

00:40They all should be together and that is how you create a furniture.

00:44A furniture?

00:45Did you just call your movie a furniture?

00:48Everything.

00:49This is like a mansion, honey.

00:50I'll take whatever.

00:51Only after the release, we'll come to know how big a mansion or how small a showroom

00:56it is.

00:58So that is how it is.

00:59If you look at films like Avengers and all, we get so happy when we see all our favourite

01:04heroes together.

01:05Do that.

01:06I think people should do it in our industry also.

01:09We should come out with lot of 3-3, 2-2, 4-4, 5-5 heroes.

01:13The more the merrier, I think.

01:14If it is required.

01:15If it's required, yeah.

01:16I was saying in the 90s, I remember sir's films.

01:17Sir used to do with Sunil Shetty sir.

01:18John Abraham.

01:19There you go, John Abraham.

01:21All sir's biggest hits, back-to-back hits, because as fans, we like to see our heroes

01:35together bring in an even bigger package.

01:39Right.

01:40And Tiger, you have also acted with Hrithik Roshan.

01:42It's not that he hasn't done it.

01:43There's a lot of bromance between you two, such brotherhood.

01:46I feel there's zero rivalry, which is not easy, right?

01:50Is it because of your wise nature, sir?

01:53And you, because at, in your 30s, you're what, 34?

01:56I'm 33 now, yes.

01:57You're 33, and you're turning 54?

01:5957.

02:0057.

02:01You look so good.

02:02The most good-looking 50-year-old we have seen.

02:05Yeah, 100%.

02:06It's true.

02:07So, no competition between you two, huh?

02:10Competing is not good.

02:12I don't believe in competition.

02:14You know, yesterday only, we had gone to this BAPS temple in Abu Dhabi, and there the Swamiji

02:21was telling us, you remember this?

02:23No, sir.

02:24About competition.

02:25Yaad dilao bhaji.

02:26Yeah, yeh, bulao dam, ki about competition, that, I, I, I,

02:31Oh, there's no such thing as healthy competition, correct?

02:34Yes.

02:35Correct.

02:36Because that creates, some way or the other, that, some kind of enmity.

02:39It is always good to be with each other, and do your own job, and do a…

02:43In this film also, it's not that how many somersaults, or how many kicks he's done,

02:49or how many I'm going to do, it's all togetherness.

02:53Everything works togetherness.

02:54And films run if you are together.

02:57Yes.

02:58If the energies are together.

03:00So we've not, we, I cannot also speak for him, there's no kind of competition between

03:05us.

03:06Right.

03:07In Jordan, we had come to see you guys shoot for the song, and I just thought, you guys

03:11were shirtless, we were layered in seven layers.

03:14What a fantastic, you both kept your cool, and it was freezing.

03:17But you were like, totally okay with it.

03:20Do you think actors somewhere should be paid so much for that?

03:23That day, I had such immense respect for you two, because it's not easy to be that cold

03:27and pretend to be happy, you know, dancing atop a cliff.

03:31We were not pretending, we were happy.

03:34Yeah, we were happy.

03:36Where do you get a job, where you get a first class ticket, and you go and you fly to an

03:43amazing place like Jordan, where they had shot Star Wars, and then we get shoot there.

03:51There are 300 people taking care of you.

03:54You ask for food, you get food, garam garam khana mil jata hai, rotiya mil jati hai.

03:59So, don't you think so we should be thankful and we should be very, very happy?

04:05We were very happy about it.

04:06Actually, you were not pretending, you were not faking it.

04:08You were like totally having fun.

04:10And he was enjoying it because he loves dancing.

04:13Yeah, yeah.

04:14He loves dancing.

04:15And I think that's why sir and me were warm also, because it was like a cardio session

04:18throughout the days for us.

04:20Yeah.

04:21Right, what's the weirdest stunt that you pulled off?

04:23Because the trailer is filled with crazy stunts.

04:26Did you guys have to pep each other up and say, listen, I know it's dangerous, but we

04:29can do this together?

04:30Was there a scene that you thought was challenging?

04:33There are some love scenes inside, but abhi tak picture release nahi hai, so there's no

04:37point of us telling you about it.

04:39But the article will release only tomorrow, after the movie is out.

04:42Haan, so there are many stunts, there are helicopter stunts, there are motorbike stunts,

04:48there are ghoda chalane ka hai.

04:52And all these things are there, there are a lot of things inside.

04:55For me, I think I can speak for sir also, we're not very good at night shoots, you know,

05:02because we both sleep early.

05:03So there's a particular mission in the film, which was shot in the night.

05:09And to doing upalse, we had to do action also, when we're both half asleep.

05:13So we had to really push each other.

05:14That was the time we were very unhappy.

05:16Listen, how important are reviews for you, especially with a movie like this?

05:20Because superhero movies don't get great reviews, but they do great business.

05:24See, I'll tell you, I'll be very grateful to the critics to remember, yes, this is larger

05:32than life film.

05:34This is not a, arre aisa thodi hota hai.

05:37Yes, I'm right, you're right, absolutely right, aisa nahi hota hai.

05:41But the amount of work has gone in the film, I would just ask them and request them to

05:48please appreciate it.

05:49Even a film, an action Bollywood film, where you see Avengers ho chahiye, aisa nahi hota

05:55hai.

05:56But still, we respect the fact that what kind of work goes through.

06:00You will, when you will watch the film, you will understand what I'm trying to tell you,

06:04that there's so much of work gone into it.

06:06And especially the work done by my director, hats off to him, Ali.

06:11He has done a tremendous job.

06:14I have seen all the Hindi cinema films in my life, from Black and White till today.

06:21I can tell you this much.

06:23And I tell you with, not because it's my film, it is one of the finest action film you will

06:29No, that's amazing to know.

06:31And you both are so disciplined.

06:34Do you guys one day wake up and say, you know what, I'm having a bad day.

06:37I'm not going to do it.

06:38Does it ever happen with you too?

06:40Because I was just talking to a friend.

06:42You guys look so good.

06:43Do you exercise?

06:44I don't.

06:45No, no, you were saying?

06:46I don't exercise.

06:47As you can see from me.

06:48I was not saying it.

06:49What did you say when you get up in the morning?

06:50Is there a bad day for, gym day for both of you?

06:57Do you?

06:58Like one day, I don't want to do weights.

07:00I don't want to eat burgers.

07:01You know, I think that's the day that I think we push ourselves even harder to sort of get

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07:08Because, you know, the moment something gets boring, it's for me, at least my personal

07:14opinion is that you're doing the right thing.

07:17Consistency is something that is very difficult to do.

07:22Eating the same things again, doing the same motions again, going through the same routine,

07:26exercising, waking up at the same time, following a pattern again and again, it's boring.

07:32But at the same time, that's, you know, that's when you eventually know you're doing something

07:37right when it gets boring.

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07:40Break it?

07:41Yeah, I'll break it.

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10:11I guess doing, you know, action films primarily cater to a certain audience.

10:15Right.

10:16But that's quite a surprise.

10:17Akshay, in the Bombay trailer you said you did some weird stunts back in the, in like

10:22say, earlier in your life.

10:24And now you won't do all those dangerous stunts.

10:26Have you become more careful?

10:28Do you guys get into the set knowing that today could be like, Tom Cruise does his own

10:31stunts, right?

10:32You also try as much as you can.

10:34Do you guys always, are you very respectful of your craft while doing these stunts, like?

10:39Yes, you have to be very careful.

10:42It doesn't matter how big a stunt, anything can happen, even jumping from this table down.

10:48I have seen accidents happening.

10:50From this table, somebody jumping and he had broken the ankle and the ankle has been broken

10:56and for six months you can't walk properly.

10:59Just from here.

11:01Biggest stunt people whom I know are dead, who died because of just small accident and

11:07small mistakes.

11:09Small stunts they were doing, there was this guy, I'm forgetting his name, he was Hollywood's

11:15best action hero, this thing, stuntman.

11:19He was doing a skit and he didn't see, ek udhar khamba tha, his head hit and he died.

11:25Yeah, so you guys are aware every day.

11:27So you have to be aware of everything and every, it doesn't matter, there can be, there's

11:33a light up there, it can fall on your head.

11:36Right, did you, last question, did you ask director Alia Baz Zafar about your roles first

11:40and what was his brief to you?

11:41Because there are two heroes, right, you guys have to be different from each other.

11:45There has to be, your strength is different from his strength, usually two hero projects.

11:49What was his brief to you?

11:50What was it?

11:51He just gave us Bad Boys script.

11:52Is this Bollywood's answer to Bad Boys?

11:56Tell me that, I enjoy that movie tremendously.

11:58Actually, I'll tell you honestly, yes, I don't mind saying it is one of the best film in

12:05India has produced and this is the answer for Bad Boys.

12:08Really?

12:09Yes.

12:10We are going to get it, I think, brilliant.

12:11I can't wait for you guys to kill it on screen and I hope Prithviraj also makes a great villain.

12:16Oh, he is fantastic.

12:17He is wonderful.

12:18No, a movie is as good as its super villain, super villain, super heroes have to be both

12:22together.

12:23Well, he is more than a super hero, super villain, more than that.

12:29Okay, brilliant.

12:30Thank you so much for your time, such a pleasure, I hope the movie does well and happy Eid.

12:35I am telling you people will be so excited because we have a seven day break, so you

12:39have already guys made the money.

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