 On a serious note serious note. I'm I'm sure this was from a few days ago I'm sure it hasn't changed. Have you heard about the price of tomatoes in India? No So the price of tomatoes has skyrocketed a kilogram, which is about a little over two pounds It went from being 27 rupees For 2.2 pounds a kilogram, which is 33 cents here in America. It has skyrocketed to from from 27 rupees to 138 that's like going from 33 cents to $1.68 and tomatoes are Huge staple in in why Indian cooking. I I I don't know the reasons for it I'm sure all of you know I just saw a headline for it and thought Good grief When's that gonna get gonna get fixed thanks a lot Obama Yeah, hey, welcome back to our stupid race He falls in Instagram and Twitter for juicy content. Thank you There was some patreon folks who comes for like button. That's one of my favorite things ever when he got involved with that. I Think he's dunking a Chocolate chip cookie and milk and it breaks and he says thanks Obama. Yeah Today we got a I knew our cash you up a little interview here This is a recent interview of on your I could he speaks about his desire to act in a low cash movie interesting which I believe I Heard He does have a cameo in Leo That's the rumor mill right now. Mr. M. I really don't like to act that much So yeah, I think he talks about Vijay thought about the and and I think is this is he speaking in Hindi and it's subbed or is it English? Cuz I saw on his Instagram he posted an interview and it was in Hindi and I just I went through it Didn't even want to read the sub so I don't know if this is that but let's see cool. Let's see How is it And I'll be here scrollin on my mind Holidays Keep it going. Let me know when you're done I'll just be here. I'll be here scrollin on my friend Okay, they were good So nice to see you Oh, my god, I think I think That's what I thought Oh, I told it was an English and Let's wait a minute, but if not, I'm gonna have to stop it When I see you you are such a legendary director You've been directing films with so many legends and Makkal Things I would not replace anything I would not change anything I think I've had a very I've been fortunate. I've had a very good life Doing what I love doing And with all its ups and downs, I would not change anything And I've read about you that you have slept in beaches when we were on your starting stage But that was my choice You make hard choices because you're an artist It's easy to make easy choices And you make easy choices in your life Seems easy, but you don't end up doing what you really want to do. You become a slave to the system I did not want to work for anyone I did not I wanted exactly to do what I wanted to do Which is why I chose to sleep on the beaches rather than Doing things that I didn't want to do And today you've been associated with CII, which is the biggest thing ever happened and how was it being associated? It is good. I've been like meaning to come here Ma'am has been telling me for a long time. Khushbuji has been telling me for a long time And I think this time I found time This time I found time and I came finally Nice, so in this CII we have talking about films We are talking about this industry and everything and we have all the talents all the technicians and all the Artists coming around so From you we have we have got so many so much of things to learn and I can see everybody cherishing you in the session So how was the session sir session was very nice. It was good fun. It was very good So many good things about bulky also I found out and It was a nice session. I had fun Okay, and talking about films the films you have done is like You have you have covered every section says you you have done crime thrillers. You have done nice Very Researchful movies and also how come you are very much into that thriller or crime kind of movies or what sir? No, no, I like genre movies. I like crime movies And I I don't know I just enjoy doing that. I enjoy doing that a lot. Okay, that's what I think That's the kind of cinema I used to watch a lot and is there something you wanted to tie still Like I want to try this genre I want to do my own kind of a superhero movie one day Superhero movie. Okay. And uh, that was cute. I can't tell you that State secrets and talking about Tamil films, uh, right now we are seeing all the young directors coming up and uh Vidyalay has been released You loved it I want to see part two now because I absolutely loved the film and uh The two big surprises, obviously like Vijay Sethupati is a very good actor and he's very good in the film Even though he's playing the teacher for a short time, but two big surprises was Suri Because Suri totally surprised me his sincerity his honesty and everything And Rajeev Meran as an actor totally surprised me So those are two big surprises I think that was for me his best film yet and he gets better with each film And I'm not looking forward to part two. Nice. Nice. And uh, one more director We'll have to talk about here is uh in hallowood. We have seen uh directors creating the universal movies and all that and now here lokeesh kaneeraj is doing I want to die in his film I want to do a death scene in lokeesh's Oh my god, that's a bit I did not expect such eyes of He glimps give glorious death to his actor I want to die in one of his films I think lokeesh kaneeraj will be the happiest to see this answer from I don't need a role. I just need to die Nice. And when we talk about films, this is that you have seen the era where Only the films work out in theaters and now it's been digital and the otd platforms have been here and now Again, it's changed to series and you have been co-directed the the sacred games with just a super duper hit We'll have to talk about that, sir. So I love telling long stories. I love long-form stories And I will adapt to anything I know how to I I only want to make films and tell stories People can decide how they want to watch it and where they want to watch it So how do you see the change because you you also directed that that era and this era so how I keep adapting I you know, I'm like a I keep adapting to whatever's going around because I'm not some I don't try to see too far in the future I live in the present And I will just do what I get to make and I will just be like that Nice super. So I'm gonna name few of the Legendary actors and actors you have worked with so you will have to tell me what is your favorite thing about them So we'll just wrap up first. We'll start off with Rajini, sir Rajini sir Rajini sir Rajini sir was all style. I was a he worked with him for the first time and I was like, wow That's what you call attitude Okay, so what is your favorite dialogue or style of Rajini? She said he worked with these people, right? Dialogue and style. I don't I don't I don't know for sure. He's used to his films used to do or versus just his favorites Split the bullet into two And the way he would do that his walk Like I remember that the climax in guinevere is dying and he just She wants to smoke a cigarette Nice and come on, sir Come on, sir. I think He's not just one of the greatest actors I feel of all time. He's also one of the greatest mind I have been fortunate enough to spend a lot of time with him also like conversations and things and he's just He has something special that I find very rare people have and he has a lot of courage A lot of yeah, for sure. It's innovative. I'm still trying new things. Yeah Do anything in every aspect of filmmaking. Yeah, a long time. He did a film called Vikram. Half the film we don't see him Hmm I don't think there's anybody ever in the history of film Who has Done so long so well so many disciplines. Yeah, and doing it. It's amazing. It's astonishing. Yeah Super and uh, we'll talk about ajit sir Ajit sir, I've seen three four films of his. I've not seen a lot of his films I just I love the fact that he's not the beard likely and I just that you said for somebody who just Doesn't go and color his hair Doesn't try to be like he's who he is And take it to leave it and that I like about him. Okay, and uh, of course, Vijay sir Vijay sir. Vijay sir's film. Vijay sir's film. I've seen his early films Recently last film about which one did he last film? But he's nothing. I like dancing a lot Okay Okay, so for and uh, you worked with uh, which I said, but he said we heard that you worked with I just today finished my first schedule. Uh-huh. So anything you would like to say about the experience with Is amazing. He was very generous actor. He gives an amazing actor he There's so much to learn from him. I've seen by looking into his eyes. You automatically become a better actor I just finished the first schedule with him. Okay. It's so nice. And uh, really talking about the films in south like Tamil films We heard that you got inspired from the film Subramanya Puram and Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah And and I got inspired this I Saw Subramanya Puram after I saw Parthiviranan Nankadavul before Yeah, and Subramanya Puram totally pushed me into There's lots of elements that you see in Gangsta Vasipur that was inspired from the way songs were shot The way everybody's a fan of heroes, you know people would Make the hairstyle like Rajnikanth and all that and Vasipur Nawaz had Bachchan hangover A lot of things like that you see and I was really really very inspired by that. I'm like, why am I not telling films? I'm being from UP And we are why I'm not telling stories from there. Okay. So I got very inspired by that. So when can we expect the next film here? So Soon I think this year next year there'll be I'll have to see Tamil films coming up. Tamil films. Okay. Any any updates you can give us a little of updates I can't there's a film called one to one. There's a film called Maharaja. There is And there is Sasi Sasi is doing something when he'll do it. He'll tell you Nice. Nice. Thank you. Thank you so much, sir. Thank you so much. Thank you I'm so so happy to have you here at CII and you are the coolest person I've ever met with such a legendary experience and all that. You're such a cool person to be with Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you CII Dakshan summit. Did she say she had worked with him or is that just a Yeah, I don't know. I didn't know he had if he has I didn't know he had worked with Superstar Russian console right now that did I If he has please let us know what that is because that'd be That'd be cool to see she did a good job Yeah, it's I've always noticed that interviews in India even though I thought she did a good job are so different than Interviews here like they're just there's a different vibe different To interviews in India than there are to to Like I don't want to talk about like late night talk shows and right regular. Yeah, like press junkets is right what this looks like, right? But hey, I love listening to him talk. We got to talk to him for a few hours over breakfast about a year ago now He's just he's equally as that's him listen to yeah, that's him and he's just he loves cinema loves that's you could You could talk you could sit and talk for four hours about film and just have scratched the surface on his love and his knowledge of Of cinema and and it's it's really I noticed When he talks about cinema, he has such a breadth of knowledge in in what he's watched and what he's created himself but he's also Really humble and so excited when you talk about a film that he wants to see and you've seen it He wants to know what you think about the film. Yeah. Yeah, he's just a lover of film You're looking at his his uh, I'm looking what he did with vj And what's up with What's up with kennedy now that it did it got very good attention? At can it's still doing the festival. It's still doing the festival circuit There's there he's going to some festivals here, but the closest ones in texas Do we have a release date for international release? I know he's got to do the Circuit first. I asked him. I was like, is there a release? He's like, no, not yet. He's doing the festival stuff right now. Well, it's I can't imagine he's not going to release it because the festivals are about to come to an end Yeah, there's a festival in texas that it's going to as well No, he's not the Okay, so It's not the director. He acted with vj vj and maharaja sattapathi. Yeah majaraja Which So he's not the director. Yeah of it. So maybe that's what he was talking about Clearly he's doing a lot of acting It's very interesting. He said something vits very specific that um I heard an acting teacher He mentioned how what a generous actor vj sattapathi is and I I I heard a very well respected acting teacher Be asked that by a new student in a class one time When they said what does that mean because they had heard that term many times a generous actor What a generous actor. What exactly does that mean and to my shock the acting coach said I I don't know what that is I don't know what that would even mean It's kind of self-explanatory. Isn't that isn't that strange An acting teacher. Yes I was truly gobsmacked by the fact that that was the response because What that means when someone's a generous actor it It encapsulates a whole slew of wonderful things about them what it Predominantly means is they're there For other motives other than their own gain their generosity is in Uh serving the text Being attentive to the vision of the director Uh caring about what the everybody on sets doing around them and most especially Working with your scene partner and making sure that everything's getting fleshed out together and giving each other everything that you want That they're clearly not just absorbed in self So it was very strange that this acting coach Not only didn't have an answer but said they weren't even aware of what that would mean Isn't that strange a lot of acting coaches are frauds. They're just there for money Um, it's true. Sadly. Yeah, I'm I mean, I know there's some acting classes out there that are great. I'm just a lot of the ones I found I just Don't get anything out of yeah Um, anyways, that was great. I love listen Donnie Rock. Um, let us know And I still know he has a lot even of his older stuff that we've not seen before So please let us know what his next film that we should watch is down below