Actors Rana Daggubati, Kriti Kharbanda and Abhishek Banerjee, along with director Karan Anshuman, discuss the new season of their show 'Rana Naidu' on Netflix. The team shares their life experiences, the challenges in the industry and what really matters to them as artistes.
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00:00Hello everyone this is Vinita Kumar you're watching me on India today in the
00:04show today the team of Rana and I do welcome you all thank you you know first
00:08thing first watch the trailer found it little subtle than the previous season
00:15so I have to actually address the elephant in the room you have to tell me
00:18is it less explicit does it have less cuss words this season I have my mic I
00:29think a trailer is not supposed to tell you the story a trailer is only made to
00:34build intrigue the fact that you ask this question I think we've done exactly that
00:37so just to find out now watch the show yeah and you think I'm going to just
00:46like go away just like that no you want to know more yeah of course because you
00:50know have you have to tone down the tone of the show the language of the show you
00:54want me to take that also because you know why I'm asking because when the
00:56previous season here the section of the audience of course complained about the
01:01same right I'm saying I'm not saying that it has to change the way you
01:05creatively see your project but I'm just I just curious to know last time you saw
01:12them in a more rustic world yes where it was crime in the underbelly in some ways
01:17of Bombay here you're dealing with in season 2 you're dealing with another
01:23family you're dealing with the Oberoi is there's a certain what do I say class to
01:28the problem so I think the language is is organic to what happens to these
01:34characters so more than hey we have to tone it down for this or for that yeah so
01:39Krithi brings class yeah you know Abhishek I have to come to you just like looking at you I think I can't just
01:59stop complimenting you because you know I think you're you're fabulous Abhishek you
02:03know congratulations for the kind of work that you've been doing everywhere and you
02:08have to also then tell me that what how do you react when people actually come
02:12and tell you that you are probably the like the finest talents of a generation
02:15you know how do you react I'm not very good at taking compliments I don't know
02:20how to take that I'm just like trying I think I've started acting very recently on
02:24camera before that I'm like you know whatever acting stints I did was for
02:29theatre or like you know giving cues when I was a casting assistant stuff like
02:33that so I'm still learning about the medium I just got to know which profile is
02:37actually better while doing this promotion so yeah I'm learning the
02:41tricks and hopefully one day I'll be as refined as the audience thinks I am yeah
02:46and one day hopefully you'll be able to take the compliments
02:49Rana you know to you I think you know what I loved about the first season of the show
02:56is that the fact that how this is probably the most broken family that exists on the
03:00internet at least you know and and yet the family dynamics were pretty visible you
03:07know and how do you navigate how did you as an actor navigate through it where did
03:13you find your piece you know because while you are playing a family member you
03:16have to actually stick to like you know some some formula somewhere some some core
03:21where you feel like oh I am a part of this family and yet a family which is not you
03:27know a combined thing I think the reason this family is so dysfunctional is why
03:34Rana is the way he is in this show and although he's not the eldest brother he
03:40behaves like he is the eldest brother he behaves like he has everything in in
03:43control well he has almost nothing in control sometimes and the trauma that he
03:49has with his father kind of really elevates out in in season one and and here
03:54it's a continuation of that and and yeah it's it's so much dynamic like you said
03:59it's a dysfunctional family I think that's that's what is so fun to just be
04:04part of this family see where the things go and I think in season two all of that
04:09has gotten more elevated becomes more personal goes into that what is method
04:17to Rana's madness like if if Rana Daghubati finds himself stuck somewhere life
04:23you know how do you how do you find your way through it
04:27I'm Rana I'll figure this out I'm my own fixer yeah okay so coming from the
04:34character you know the fixer actually I don't know who thought of it because that
04:40character itself you can actually rely on him to fix things but I just take from the
04:46character and ask you something about real life individually speaking who do
04:51you rely on who is your fixer in life if you may tell that net fix
05:00smart though yeah Rana yeah myself yeah yeah wow creepy ditto that I mean your own self my own self yeah I think this world is harsh it's you got to fix yourself otherwise it's yeah it's hard to move around
05:17it's hard exactly exactly and very expensive
05:23very I mean the cash this man made in season one damn I was actually counting
05:30but you also notice right that Rana while he's making money if you go back to
05:36season one I believe there was this one character who's the makeup artist right in
05:44season one makeup artist your hero ka makeup artist hai he's sorting her life as
05:50well he's not just doing this for himself so you know it's so lovely to meet
05:55characters like that because no one is there's no black and white even in real
05:58life you're constantly looking at him and thinking he's a bad guy but then he goes
06:02and does this one thing and you don't know which side to take you don't know
06:05whether to love him or hate him and I think that's the beauty of the characters
06:08in Rana and I do overall yeah yeah I'm sure you know you said that just
06:15mentioned that how expensive and you said that you know world is harsh but you
06:20know I think you have to come at a point in life to make such observations you
06:25know it's you can't just if you're young you know you're working you're
06:29navigating your life to work to your life you you just don't realize that the
06:33world is harsh world has to do something to you to make you feel that the world is
06:37harsh you know if you could just elaborate on that when at that at what point did you
06:43realize it that the world was harsh oh no no that was in context to needing a fixer
06:50yeah see the world is made of all kinds of people I think the world is a place to
06:55discover it and like there's nothing black or white it's only in your head it's like here you go you've
07:03decided that this person is is white and you want him to behave a certain manner but you don't know
07:08that person fully enough and I think all of us live in a certain gray zone while making decisions while
07:15being somebody so which is why I say it's not it's not the easiest world to navigate because
07:20no one's standing there to sit and help you yeah I think if you have something in your head you want
07:26to sort you got to get up and do it yourself yeah yeah Abhishek Abhishek um what no I was asking that
07:34you know you have to reach a point where you realize that the world is harsh yeah I think the minute you
07:40leave school college I think the way we are very protected in that environment and the minute you
07:46have to go out of that educational system and like be a part of the working system of the society
07:52I think that's when you start you know realizing what the society is really made of yeah and then
07:58you have to find your way through and it's as they say it's a cutthroat world our industry is very
08:03cutthroat I think it teaches us a lot to be in an industry like that where you have to like
08:09constantly be at the top of your game I always say that that film industry not for the average not for
08:15the good you have to be excellent and there's no other way so and to be excellent is not easy you
08:20know to like have immense discipline and immense patience commitment so all of that and then you
08:27know that the first things which we don't learn I mean we actually don't learn through our educational
08:35years is discipline and all the time our teachers are always telling us to be disciplined the professors
08:39parents and we never hear that we're like discipline but then you realize that it is absolutely important
08:44yeah yeah yeah things fall in place with discipline absolutely before I wrap this up Rana I would like
08:51your comment on the entire language row that has erupted down south you know that language
09:00is not only down south it's also in Maharashtra it's happening absolutely but I'm of course my reference
09:05importance Kamal Hassan's thug life not being allowed to release in Karnataka do you think
09:10that as a country or state or or the authorities combine become more vulnerable no I'm saying now
09:18social media everyone has a place to make an opinion earlier you didn't so anything gets touchy and
09:26political quite quickly so this whole language thing you know when I came to Bombay many years back I
09:31heard that same thing about you know Marathi Bihari and you know and of course Karnataka
09:36I've been in Tamil Nadu I know the Kannada Tamil conflict which has been going on I feel it's
09:42completely worthless and useless and people who don't have anything better to do well you know
09:47just try to get some attention while doing this and it's very good what Rana said in the last
09:52interview that you know language when it's used to you know educate people I mean it's used to
09:57cultivate literature that's great I'm sure the guys who are talking you know about languages they
10:02would know any poems in their own language or any writers in their own language and that's the
10:07problem so I don't think we should really pay much heat to it but as as an artist of course not
10:14related to this issue but as an artist say something happens and and it's about a project it's about the
10:20work that you have put behind uh into it and all of it coming together um what is the best way to
10:27solve this out to just apologize and let it go to move on to just let the people do whatever they want
10:34to do the media and the news and the people become smart that yeah actors are not the ones to advocate
10:39for the way society lives I think it'll be a better place yeah I think you also look at politicians
10:45scholars learned men uh or men and women to lead a way into society see because you will never take
10:52the greatest poets in each language and interview them and bring them to India today have you neither
10:58will anyone in any of those languages do that if there's a poet in Marathi who's who's written some
11:03fabulous poems it's not that we'll bring them and honor them like film stars would I think if the lens
11:09turns towards more important and actual things I feel the country will be a much better place
11:15thank you for that Rana but I think I'll just tell you that we hosted Mr. Javed Akhtar last week
11:20and also Mr. after how long one Javed Saab after how long one Javed Saab after how long
11:26of course no I get I get what you're saying of course I just want to add to what Rana is saying
11:31I believe the biggest problem is comparison comparison destroys personality it's literally as simple
11:37is that you know when you're compared to someone else as a kid oh they are doing better than you
11:42oh she came first why did you come third yes that's where it begins but if you continue to do that
11:48as adults you've not learned why are we comparing no two people are the same no two personalities can
11:55be the same and that's why they're so distinctive right so why are we trying to destroy the personality
12:01that people have worked so hard to build over the years it's the second we stop comparing why do we
12:07want to be better we are all the best like we're all working so hard to be the best version of
12:12ourselves and instead of honoring that growth we're constantly finding a way to bring another person
12:17down so we feel superior do things that make you feel superior that's great for you lead by example
12:23fighting against like you know fighting against language is completely like fighting for language is
12:28complete against democracy absolutely i think that's the best way to put it thank you abhishek for
12:33that yeah i think we'll uh end that um on this note that synergy is what you mentioned um rana and i
12:41do i think we'll just wrap this up by taking one a statement from you what to expect what synergy
12:47that's what it is it's a synergy of people from across the country coming together uh to a platform
12:53that's global like netflix and make an awesome show yeah that's what it is yeah abhishek called it
12:58uh the only pan india show right how amazing abhishek it is true it's people from different
13:05cultures different heritage different walks of life coming together to do what they're passionate
13:10about which is acting we never signed up in our contracts that we would be advocates for anything
13:14else we're not trying to set an example the only thing we're trying to do is entertain
13:18and i hope you're entertained by this
13:29you