Role In Movie On 26/11 Made Anupam Kher Emotional

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Anupam Kher and Dev Patel expressed their feelings about acting in Anthony Maras’s upcoming film, Hotel Mumbai. It’s based on how Mumbai’s Taj Hotel braved the 26/11 terror attack.

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00:00I'm too scared.

00:02We all are.

00:16I think we should try and gather whoever we can and

00:19take them to the chambers lounge

00:22and wait for the police to arrive.

00:30I was in Mumbai when this happened.

00:45I was shooting about 8 miles away from this place.

00:48Initially we thought that it was a gang war shootout.

00:51But then it was discovered and then it was 72 hours

00:54of horrific ordeal of watching this whole thing unfolding

00:57on television.

01:00It was frightening, it was saddening and it was traumatic

01:04and it made me feel very helpless

01:07because we couldn't do anything about it.

01:10And then when we became part of this film

01:29to relive that whole thing and to reenact out the whole thing

01:32was much more difficult because some emotional memory

01:36was coming back and I knew a lot of people who were

01:39impacted by it and who lost their relatives.

01:42I knew the general manager who lost his family

01:44in the event over there.

01:48But it's also a film about resilience,

01:50it's also a film about courage,

01:52it's finding heroes from the ordinary people.

01:56But to get through this we must stick together.

02:02To create a piece like this that is thoroughly unflinching,

02:05to make an audience sit for two hours

02:08and really put a microscope to a situation like this,

02:12see the dead eyes of those young radicalized teenagers

02:15carrying those AK-47s.

02:18It's a catharsis and it makes us understand

02:21the madness a little better.

02:23And through that you see these tiny moments

02:25where humanity wins and goodness wins

02:29and it's really inspiring.

02:31I love you so much.

02:35This isn't about sort of just telling a story

02:38about what's going on.

02:40This is about enlightening the world

02:42and showing exactly how terrible events like this are.

02:46And the fact that they happen all the time is just,

02:48it's appalling.

03:05So I have four kids at home.

03:07I know, Dilip.

03:09Nobody is forcing you to stay.

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