- 7/11/2025
Mumbai: During an exclusive conversation with Actress Shubhangi Dutt and Anupam Kher, the director of the film "Tanvi The Great," where they discussed the making of the movie, highlighting its themes of goodness, kindness, and autism. He shared how he was inspired by his niece, who has autism, and wanted to create a film that showcased the strengths and abilities of individuals with autism. The director praised the cast, including Shubhangi, who plays the lead role of Tanvi, and expressed his gratitude for their hard work and dedication. He also talked about the importance of representation and awareness about autism, and how the film aimed to challenge stereotypes and promote understanding and acceptance.
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00:00Thank you for bringing a film that is so deeply human and they're not just different.
00:05Autism is not just different. Somebody who's autistic is not just different.
00:08I think they're God's favorite child.
00:09I agree with you.
00:10Agreed, right?
00:11But tell me one thing, why this film and why did it take you 20 years to make a film?
00:16I didn't have anything to share with the world.
00:19For me to make a film is telling something that I believe in.
00:24I'm doing well as an actor.
00:27In fact, reinventing myself, I've done some amazing work in the past, in the last seven, eight years.
00:33I, as a director, wanted to say something which sort of reflected in me first and then reflected in the world.
00:41And when I met Tanvi, my niece, on an occasion of my brother's daughter's wedding,
00:46and I asked her, Tanvi, what are you looking at?
00:48Because she was not participating in the festivities.
00:51She said, I'm looking at my world.
00:53Then I also realized that I want to make something about goodness.
00:56I believe in goodness.
00:59I believe in what my father used to say, the easiest thing in the world is to make somebody happy.
01:03In the world where we are always made to feel that there is something not nice that is going on,
01:08you open a television news, you only hear bad news.
01:12Bad news.
01:13You⊠somebody is always trying to tell you somebody is doing better than you.
01:16You are made to feel smaller person.
01:18So where do you get strength to live happily?
01:21And it⊠ironically, it comes from an autistic person.
01:25Because an autistic person knows nothing except for being good.
01:29So, when the story came up to me and me and my writer sat down and wrote it,
01:35and it purgated her.
01:37It was like a catharsis for 240 people who were on the sets.
01:42And if it can give us that feeling, I think it will give the same feeling toâŠ
01:46It will tap into the goodness of every human being who will watch the film.
01:50Because I believe that everybody has the possibility of being good.
01:55And if⊠and I am not saying it as a philosopher.
01:58It has earned⊠it has sort of cost us a lot of money.
02:02The money which we don't have so far.
02:04But still, I think you have to go to some of the discomfort by the kind of belief that you have in certain things.
02:15And my belief is that Tanvi the Great and Tanvi is here to make us feel different.
02:20And to make us feel good about life.
02:22Also, Shubhangi, you know, it wouldn't be wrong to call him the textbook of acting.
02:26He has like years and years of experience.
02:29And then of course, you have like a fab cast to work with⊠you've worked with.
02:33This is the perfect dream, Debby, right?
02:35Yes.
02:36But was it like⊠was it at a time when you were a little overwhelmed or a little scared
02:40that everybody is like just so experienced and you are just so new?
02:44Yeah, the thought of it.
02:46Even before⊠even when⊠while we are giving the shot, I think, before my first shot with every actor in the film,
02:53I used to get very nervous because I have seen them in so many roles and they are so versatile
02:59and they are so experienced and veterans and people look up to them for acting and skills and everything
03:06and just to like do a scene with them.
03:08My first thought, I used to be awestruck.
03:10Second to that, starstruck.
03:12And then I used to be likeâŠ
03:14So they said,
03:15Jago, Uto, what is the name of Tanvi the Great?
03:17Who are you playing?
03:18I said, Tanvi.
03:19And then he's like, yeah, being your character because it's just soâŠ
03:22You are just basically seeing what you have always wanted to do.
03:26You are seeing all the actors just put it into life.
03:29Like what they do on screen, I'm getting to experience that in real life.
03:32And it was very⊠but then when we started getting into rhythm and we started getting into the zone of it,
03:39I think I became the character and then we all became family and it was just so muchâŠ
03:44Like while I used to even shoot with everybody, there was so much to take from them.
03:49So much that I learned.
03:50Everything, every small nuances that they did, I think it was a lot.
03:53It was a big, big learning, big experience in itself.
03:56Right now looking at⊠that was very well said.
03:58Right now also looking at this poster, you will see everybody has kindness in their eyes.
04:05And all of them are⊠believe in kindness.
04:09All of them believe as human beings.
04:11I know Arvind, Jackie, Baman, Pallavi Ji.
04:14I know them for many, many years.
04:17I think they are in the film apart from the brilliant actors, but also they believe in goodness.
04:22They believe in kindness.
04:24And everyone has done a great job.
04:26Pallavi Joshi is so good in the film.
04:28You will be seeing her after Misha Vivek's film.
04:31It is such a⊠such an amazing feeling to have her.
04:35And to have her in the center and thisâŠ
04:38Karan Taker, Nasar sahab, it's a nice feeling. I felt rich.
04:44Sir, at the same time, we've seen your relationship with everybody in Bollywood, Hollywood.
04:50Everybody supports you, loves you.
04:51But then, you know, at the same time you cast in a fresh face. Why was that?
04:55Because I wanted people to believe in her story.
04:58Otherwise, people would have said, so and so did autistic person's role very well.
05:04Like for me, I wanted to translate my story of Saransh into the story of Tanvi.
05:11Because when I did Saransh, people thought it was somebody, an old man.
05:14Yeah.
05:15They identified with his tragedy, with his strength, which is, with his life.
05:20Similarly, I wanted people to concentrate on the life of an autistic girl who has no identity, except thatâŠ
05:28âŠwho is an actress.
05:29Now, people know about Shubhangi.
05:31But when people look at the shadows, there is no image of Shubhangi.
05:36Now, it's only three years ago, when Shubhangi has a role in someone else's role, they say, Shubhangi has a role in a good role.
05:42Now, it's only about Tanvi.
05:45Because I wanted to make a real story with a canvas of being it an epic.
05:52So, the film is very big.
05:54The film is very rich.
05:56But I want two Oscar winners in the film.
06:00MM Kirawanee-shaabh ka music and 9 songs, it's a musical because Tanvi sings.
06:05Sound designed by Rasool Pukuti.
06:07Our director of photography, Kiko Nakahara, Japanese.
06:14Our costume designers are Kamal.
06:16So, I have taken a grade with technicians and I wanted to take a new company.
06:23I wanted to take a new company.
06:24Maybe something happens.
06:25I have told many people, not because they didn't, I believe in them and they believe in me.
06:30But they were protecting me, why are they making a new company and spending so much money.
06:36Take a established actress.
06:39But the film is made by belief, not with money.
06:42Alone.
06:43I am going to rewind back in time.
06:45When you have Tanvi the Great announced and you have put some snippets on social media.
06:48I used to follow everything.
06:50How difficult was that and how difficult was it for you to keep that news to yourself?
06:57Because everybody wanted to know who Tanvi was.
06:59Let me tell you how difficult it was.
07:02So, I remember when I told you that are you okay with not being on social media and not doing any other project.
07:09And slowly, I told you that you won't be allowed to interact with anybody.
07:15And whenever we are going outside, like in shoots, people are taking photos and videos.
07:20They said, you have to keep your eyes behind.
07:22You have to be so careful.
07:23You have to be so careful.
07:24You have to be so careful.
07:25I have to be so careful.
07:26You have to be so careful.
07:28I have to be so careful.
07:31So I don't stop our camera.
07:32I have a part of anything.
07:33I have to be so careful.
07:34I have to take a photo and go back after them.
07:35I have to tell people, all the photos are so careful.
07:37You have to be so careful.
07:38You have to take it down, everything.
07:39You have to do everything.
07:40So, it was difficult.
07:42But I think, I enjoyed that process also.
07:45But it has worked.
07:46She has sat down with Mr. De Niro and watched the film.
07:49Of course.
07:49She had her world premiere in Cannes Film Festival.
07:53Because I did not want...
07:54We just have army officers that we were shooting in Lansdowne.
07:58We used to go...
07:59They used to invite us for drinks and for food and thing like that.
08:02They used to take pictures with everybody except for...
08:05We were saying that please we are not wanting her to take any picture.
08:09Because I didn't want somebody to put a picture on Facebook or on social media
08:13and say,
08:14It has to be presented in a certain manner.
08:18That's why I have revealed it.
08:19It's first back revealed.
08:21Also, it's to create a certain kind of mystery.
08:24Tanvi is a mysterious girl apart from mysterious.
08:27Also, when we talk about something as sensitive as autism,
08:31Sir, Bollywood may be mostly seen it being very romanticized or dramatized.
08:35Here, it's more on the human level.
08:37You can feel the character.
08:38You can feel how the person can...
08:40How the person is.
08:41Was that a conscious choice to keep it more truthful?
08:46The whole film is truthful.
08:48Goodness cannot be invented.
08:52It is there.
08:54And my Tanvi, my niece is truthful, is real.
08:58Whatever reacts, whatever reacts, whatever reacts.
09:00I have done it.
09:01I have done it.
09:02I have done it.
09:03I have done it.
09:03I have done it.
09:04I have done it.
09:05That changed my perspective.
09:05I said, we need to change this language of Bollywood acting.
09:06I have done it myself.
09:07I have done it myself.
09:20i'm proud of it in fact i'm proud of it because we do the most unconvincing things and yet convince
09:26hundred and one point four billion people but i think it's time to evolve it's trying to reinvent
09:32ourselves we can make a film which is from india for the world tanwee the great is that film
09:38you can make a modern indian film autism is also
09:51an international universal issue jab amne film shuru ki thi you will be surprised that the
09:57according to w w ho world health organization the ratio was one out of hundred children is autistic
10:05when we finish the film and today it is one out of 37 children is autistic so it's it's very important
10:11to be aware people who come the so so many people came to we saw the film show the film in pune
10:16there was this lady army officers daughters they're both autistic twins hain par amun honne ka
10:23amne to inko super power bana ke dekha hai to woh identification karna baut zaluri hai stop we
10:29need to stop looking at people who are we call to small start uh stop our guilt differently abled we
10:35are differently abled true we are the people who need to be changing our perspective we i always say
10:41that we are in the prison we are in that zoo these are the people who are looking at from outside
10:46unke liam ajeebo garib loge ki kitna jhoot bolte hai hai kitna manipulate karte hai loge
10:52bade ajeebo log hai hai ya duchh pehunchate hai doosre ko koi autism ka bacha ya bada kisi ko kabhi duch
10:58pehunchai nahi sakta usko pata hi nahi hota duch pehunchana kya hota hai jhoot bolene sakta
11:02usko pata hi nahi hota kya jhoot bolna hota manipulation so i think we need to learn we need
11:07to learn to be a better human beings and in an entertaining manner tanvii is very hilarious tanvii
11:13makes you laugh tanvii will crack you up tanvii is naughty and yet she is this person who is a
11:20force to reckon with also sir i would bring bring you i mean you're playing your grandfather here
11:27to her but you started the whole cool dad uh era you know like i think all the dads became very cool
11:33after watching not just that i think uh the rhtdm also ah and then
11:40uh mr malhotra yes and then then we have tanvi the great will we see something of that streak
11:47here in the film no mr mr colonel rayna is a little serious okay because he has lost his son in the
11:55war uh and he's playing you see that is what the most amazing thing is about army personnel
12:03and i dealt with lot of people because the shoot was in the army contourment area the courage that
12:08the army people have is so unbelievably heartwarming and touching to colonel rayna is not he doesn't have
12:16any sense of humor she brings humor in him by that time the also colonel rayna represents the audience
12:23somewhere because it is through him we get to know what autism is all about that it's a super power the
12:29opposite of normal is not abnormal the opposite of normal is extraordinary who would you choose like
12:35would you choose the cool dad or the the grandfather colonel rayna who's a little strict
12:42cool dad of course cool dad everybody my my by the way cool dad is my tribute to my father my father was
12:51exactly like this all the names that you took in the in in this list of characters they're all my father
12:59my father was my best friend then how did o pochi o koka happen on the spot we said i told
13:05sharuk i said let's do something which people will remember so i think that's how we came up and
13:12sharuk is so brilliant in improvisation he's so ready to try and work out various things and it became a
13:17guy who knows as a cult kind of a thing what he means to me i kind of know what her sabuk told me
13:21it was an interview what is nice about it okay you want me to know what i said what i mean
13:26oh cool I have there's this to my dad when i piss him off we use them yeah yeah yeah
13:30yeah yeah yeah very the very necessary thing it is a lot of things in my mind they become important
13:34We do a lot of things with our father.
13:37When we are young, we do a lot of things like Pochi,
13:40that's how we incorporate it.
13:43So, we choose this.
13:45She is choosing the cool dad.
13:47And one last fan question because I am a big fan of Mr. Malhotra.
13:51Would you want Mr. Malhotra and Ms. Braganza's movie?
13:55Would you want? I would want.
13:57Of course.
13:59I have a feeling that at the end of it, Ms. Braganza will not choose Mr. Malhotra as her life partner.
14:04Why?
14:05Because Ms. Malhotra is too stylish and Mr. Malhotra is too...
14:08Adorable.
14:09Adorable.
14:10Yeah.
14:11When I go to Kapil's show, I always say,
14:14let me leave her a lot of years later.
14:17That's part of her psyche.
14:19But Mr. Malhotra is a star and his emoji is also coming.
14:22Yeah.
14:23The emoji of the emojis is a lot.
14:25It's so much coming.
14:27Thank you. But watch the film.
14:29You will be very happy.
14:30It's releasing on 18th of July.
14:32And the president is going to watch it.
14:33Yes.
14:34Yes.
14:35Yes.
14:36We are very excited.
14:37Because I think president is the epitome of different but no less.
14:39Great.
14:40I mean, where have you come from today?
14:41And today, the greatest of our country and greatest of all, it's their.
14:46I think this is so amazing.
14:48Great.
14:49I'm done with my interview, guys.
14:50Is there anything else you'd like to add?
14:52First, please tell your audiences to watch it on 18th of July in the theatre.
14:56Because it's not coming on OTT.
14:58For a long time.
14:59Thank you, sir.
15:00Thank you, Shivangi.
15:01Best of luck.
15:02Thank you, avete College.
15:03On hon we go.
15:05Good evening.
15:06You're a dream.
15:07Good evening, everyone.
15:08You're a dream.
15:09Great evening, everyone.
15:10Thank you, everyone.
15:12Thank you, Mae.
15:26You're a dream.
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