The Cinema In Sanjay Mishra's Blood

Bollywood actor Sanjay Mishra spoke to Brut about his love for films, acting and Shah Rukh Khan.

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00:00Shah Rukh Khan had such an amazing energy.

00:03Not only the girls but even we used to look at Shah Rukh Khan.

00:06In my acting career, I have stolen that energy from Shah Rukh Khan.

00:36I can't separate myself from what I do, so I leave myself on the character, as in character

00:57actor Sanjay Mishra, as a blind Sanjay Mishra, as a father Sanjay Mishra, so I leave myself

01:04on the character, not that I leave my house alone and think that I will do this and that

01:09and I find out that I am doing something else.

01:11So it is better for an actor to leave the situation to himself.

01:14See, I don't have a non-filmy background, I have been a filmmaker since childhood.

01:33I have been an actor since childhood.

01:36Cinema had entered my house like a blanket.

01:39If you open a sugar can, there is cinema in everything.

01:43And when I saw my mother for the first time, I thought that I will say something, sometimes

01:52I remember it in my heart.

01:54I was 15-16 years old when I saw my mother.

01:57So cinema was very much ingrained.

02:00I used to go to any corner and do some acting.

02:04Then from there, tomorrow's homework is complete, no, no, no.

02:09So cinema is ingrained, cinema is in the blood.

02:12And cinema should be in the blood.

02:14No one can make a film by getting up and dancing.

02:29No one can make a film by getting up and dancing.

02:59No one can make a film by getting up and dancing.

03:29No one can make a film by getting up and dancing.

03:52Content should be relevant. It's not necessary to go to the grave for a few days and then come back.

03:59It's not necessary that you publish every day. It's necessary that you publish in history.

04:06Are you getting me?

04:07Enjoying life? What's the option?