 I had tickets to go down to the Titanic, but I think I'm gonna cancel don't too soon Hey, welcome back to our tube interaction Instagram, Twitter, more juicy content, thanks for folks to account square like button. That's just nothing that's ever intrigued me Going down. I mean going under the ocean is intriguing, but not that deep end with that shoddy of a Submarine, yeah, I just I just scuba diving intrigues me. Yeah, but I Submarines don't intrigue me. I've been on the submarine deep submersibles military. I've been on a military. You have interesting Yeah Perks of my dad being in the military for as long as he was Okay, we got a Zoya octar interview. Oh good. It's a new one. That just came out great with a Anushka. Yeah, from a film companion. Great. I'm sure she'll talk about the Archies Archies great Which looks like a lot of fun Did you show the trailer to your wife? She like it. Yeah, great And she's like it makes sense because the Archies are actually a band. Oh Yeah, I it's so funny because it's the same as Archie It's actually in the same universe as Josie and the pussycats by the way Really? Okay, so what about the Archie singular comic book? I think it's in the same. It's the same thing. It's the same universe Because there's an Archie person like there's a yeah Archies Well, that's plural. Yeah, but no, it's the same same same just same but anyways, it's interesting because I saw a lot of one one's a person the other's a band. How can they be the same Archie is in The band the band and it are they is the band all comprised of people named Archie? But anyways, I saw a lot of people confused By this trailer because it's a very American story. Yeah American comic book comic book and they made it in India But then like in the trailer or the teaser there was like, you know burgers and shakes and so a lot of people like Oh Indians won't ever be able to relate to this I'm like, have you never seen a western film that you've related to you? We aren't Indian We relate to films all the time you couldn't you can relate to it if like Zoya you broaden your horizons Yeah, I just I don't understand that concept. Oh, oh, this is not fully Indian. You Indians can't relate to this You watch Marvel Yeah, you literally watch Top Gun. No more about American cinema than many Americans So like so what is it about it? You wouldn't relate to like if it's a relatable story It doesn't have to be fully your story. Yeah, it's strange to me very strange to me. Yeah, just whatever Anyways, but it should be good because it's Zoya You know, especially even as far back as how much You know burgers and shakes in the in a modern Indian movie today Do you not recall how much of the 1950s MGM and Elvis movies are in the 50s and 60s Indian films? Yeah, the music the style of the wardrobe. That's very strange. Here we go. I Work with the most incredible crew. I am really lucky with the crew. I have but they've read all the comics I gave them up. I don't know how many how many how many films to watch teenage films films from the six days Musicals from the six days Musicians from the six days then they did different acting workshops. They did dance The crew I'm guessing she's talking about the Yeah, you know when you grow up in a house and you have parents you get on with or parents that you admire You just end up doing things they do and it's as simple as that and who is anyone to say you can't do this or you can't do that So at first I think we need to establish that we both live in Bandra Yeah, but this interview is happening all the way in Brazil. Yes Oh You know it was so lovely to see these debut on actors on the stage and and with the best of the best from around the world Brazil, what was it like for you? You've been it's Netflix thing It's called good. Oh, oh god. That's what I call there be. I mean, I got it Yeah, it's been a year and a half since they started the boot camp and then the shoot and everything maybe a little more Yeah, it was insane. It was great that the first They're first coming out literally it was happened at a scale like this. I think they're ready for anything, you know I mean, I was shocked at their confidence and Nobody was nervous. Oh, I think must have been nervous, but they didn't let it show, you know I was I think a little more nervous and then they were very good You know to get out there and like perform in front of 10,000 people that 10,000 physical Yeah, you know people and then online. I don't know how many yeah, it was crazy Yeah, you know your stories, so yeah, whether It doesn't matter who they're about or where they're placed or whether it's going theatrical or streaming There are always stories about You know about having compassion About more layered women, right? How challenging was it to Thread a more progressive worldview into an american comic book that was first published in what 1942 Uh, I mean that the the Trick was like when I got this and when I was asked if I want to adapt it Uh, I didn't want to do a modern take it's been done. I mean riverdale has done it and be uh, that wasn't the archie That's not my experience of archie. My experience of archie is a A simpler time a more innocent time. Yeah, and uh a gentler time, you know, and uh where less was more And I wanted to go back to that and I wanted to keep the original essence of the comic and find a way To have that innocence but find a way to for it to resonate with kids today With young adults today because I was reading it, but I was like 12 like that at tween age. So you wanted to To resonate with kids today. So thematically use what matters to them And weave that into a story Set in that time That is a is that because you know the last time we talked you'd also talked about how it is about the environment Uh, you're you're looking at some of those issues in this narrative So then did you take the framework and say how can I talk about things that I'm concerned with? No, you just see the thing is this is this is the comic, you know and the comic is episodic Like yeah comic is like short stories gags their episodes But there is an overriding essence of that comic you take that comic you take the characters of that comic and you set it into a Structured story narrative. So if it's a three page in a thing, we've done a hundred page You know what I'm saying you just create your own story in it and it's I mean it seems daunting But you had when you sit down to write it and these are your characters and these are the things you're playing with Obviously you adapt it obviously you change certain things you pronounce certain things more you Kind of put into the back burner certain qualities You have to play with that because it is a screen adaptation But it's not so I mean, we'll know once the film comes up How has pandered I shouldn't be saying anything right now You know, you always said that you're obsessed with the idea of friendship in movies. Why? I don't know. I think I think I think both my brother and we both have that we have very very deep friendships When we were we have friends like family and I don't know if that came from like the fact that when we were kids we you know, maybe things We both had a broken home. I think we came from there and Somehow your friends just became very strong in a sense. I don't know this I think and It's very important to me like I have any friendships and I have very old friendships and they mean a lot to me and I think it just comes out You know, like I'm constantly coming of age in every movie. I don't know what that means. I have Peter Pan syndrome When will Zoya actually come over? It's not happening. I'm not seeing it. It's like a recurring theme I mean, I've now started seeing it and do you do you find yourself consciously? Not repeating things because you know friendship you say, okay, there are five beats In in the sort of friendship saga and how do you kind of innovate within that? Do you find yourself consciously saying, okay, I can't go there because I'm dumb this no no no it organically flows Yeah, it flows. I don't I don't Like I consciously don't want to make the same film Like I find Till now like I haven't felt that like I want to do the same thing But I am doing the same thing. I am coming of age So I'm consciously doing that, you know, so I can't say that I'm so different because Thematically I am touching the same things Which I think most filmmakers tend to do, you know, they have certain themes that they keep going back to but No, I don't think so much like I just go with that tone of that story and what organically would happen to these people and And if you're true to that milieu and you're true to that tone and you're true to that character It will differentiate from another, you know, you know, this tone is such a difficult thing to to actually describe or Or articulate And when you look at the archies trailer, there is such At all As a director, how do you how do you decide what that will be and then how it was kind of given already in the comics? you know, uh, you See like one thing is when you're writing it because We write our own material. I mean this was written with Rima and Ayesha. We write our own material. You already know What it sounds like you already know and that's where for me the tone begins The tone the sound of it. Yeah in the sound of it. My tone begins like What is there? What is their mood? What is the level of drama? What is their pitching? How serious is this? Is this is it make or break or is it teenage life? You know, is it you know, you just roll with the punches What is your tone that comes from there? It comes organically from the writing and then from that I mean, I work with the most incredible crew. I am really lucky with the crew. I have The minute they read the script we we discuss it and you kind of explain to them and or Give them an image. You know, even if it's a photograph sometimes They just know what you're looking for and they take it to a level. I can't Because I'm not an expert in but they get what you want They get what I want and they get me and we develop your working equation now over a period of time And uh, they are obviously experts in their field and they can they do things that I cannot imagine So I know what I want, but I would never be able to take it there, you know So I I have a crew of incredible artists that I work with and they developed that tone with me A lot of filmmakers stick with the same DPs camera absolutely If they're available Sometimes it becomes like it's too particular not catering to everybody and that's what you have to live with But the people that it does cater to Respect it for that, right, you know, so the people that Understand it or like it or it resonate with it. They respect it that it sticks to that tone But with something like this Zoya where obviously there is no box office pressure Right, so you're not Thinking about like Friday opening. Yeah, right. Yeah, so with the arches. Could you actually Go as vicious you want in terms of a specific look or a texture? No, see, I feel Everything is a double-edged sword, you know So sometimes when you don't have box offers, then you rely only on review Yeah, and you're relying on your people's but sometimes the reviews could be terrible or people didn't relate to it But the box office is huge So you balance out so it's a double-edged sword. So it's not like this is better than that and the thing is you you I mean, I always do what I want and then I panic So I can see that but I when I'm making the film I'm like this with blinkers and I'm like this is what it is And this is how I see it and this is how it should be and of course when you are Working with you know and someone's funding you you there are things that you do That cover it, you know the way you cast it the kind of music you use The language you use you make it universal in a way, you know You make that tonality universal to a certain amount of people, but you I stick to my thing Then I'm like, did I stick to my thing too much? I don't know Okay, tell me what this boot camp was like what did these debutant actors go through everything I mean they started from scratch, you know, they had to read the comments Obviously they have to because it's not their generation. So they had to read the comics I didn't know about the answer. Yeah, some of them knew more than the others, but they knew They've read all the comics. I gave them. I don't know how many how many how many films to watch just from the period like Just or teenage films films from the six days musical and net fenicello Different tonality and different like the beach party movies like musicals from the six days Musicians from the six days Girls from that, you know, just different things great teenage films Things like that. Then they did different acting workshops. They did dance workshops. They did singing workshop They had to do skating swimming cycling. They had to do Everything you can think of that we did an entire workshop with them with camera To explain to them what hitting the mark is because it's a very technical job So catching the light hitting your mark. What does it mean to give shoulder? What does it mean to be in a close-up? What does it mean to be in a wow? So a lot of the a lot of them this is they've never worked on something before What what is set protocol giving shoulder, you know, how to how to hit your mark They went to school. They they went to school. They came to set trained Yeah, yeah, they froze Are you tough? No No, I mean, I don't need to be like tough means what means like, you know, are you a screamer or a set? No, I don't scream. No, no, I don't scream on set I don't like that energy and I think the energy on a set comes from the top. Absolutely And I don't like that energy. I don't I find I don't want I don't want people around me to be stressed I mean, we're making a movie and it's I love what I do and everyone I work with likes what they do and I want that energy to be Productive and I don't like people being stressed. So, no I don't enjoy it. But till you you chase what you want and you will continue to repeat till you get it You won't cut slack because then you No, I'll I'll push for what I want. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but so yeah You you've trained them in all of this but you more than anyone else having grown up in the business know How rough it's going to be. Yeah when they make that debut and how much There is going to be negativity. There is going to be about nepotism. How have you trained them for that? I mean, you you've grown up. See at the end of the day, we all grow up and we all grow up wanting to Follow our dreams and it's very You know when you grow up in a house Have parents you get on with or parents that you admire You just end up doing things they do And it's as simple as that and who has anyone to say you can't do this or you can't do that You know, absolutely. So that's it. But I'm saying how Is there training for them to how do you deal with that when they finally You know as they did yesterday step out into the public You know, you don't you have to like roll with the punches. You have to get out there. It's yeah You have to you have to keep your head down and work hard. Yeah, that's it At the end of the day if you do your job well You'll be unstoppable Do your job. That's it everything else like just I just bubble myself I just focus on what I have to do and if I do it well or if I do it, honestly It'll find its audience and that's it. You can't control anything but yourself. What else can you control? So I advise you can't control anything you can't control what people say you can't control what people think You can't control if they like you you can't control if they don't like you You can just control what you put out And so that's what you should do just Focus be a Jedi. That's it. What else can you do? Yeah, keep your head down and work. Keep your head down and work hard. That's it. Just do your job everything If you do it well little aligned. Yeah tiger baby now has tiger telly which makes as you just launched a music label You know, what's your vision for how Your style of storytelling is going to shape the pop culture narrative in India You know, I don't know What do you want? I don't know and Rima doesn't know and we'll know maybe if we manage to do what we want We just want to be a space that enables Stories and when I say stories, I don't just mean films That We feel something about that's it. We just want to be a space where we what we value How we see the world finds a space and like-minded people can come in there and whether it's make a documentary whether it's make a podcast whether it's Cut a song whether it's Be a designer and make something whatever the hell we want to be that space where you can come and just Find something to do and tell your tail. You know if that tail resonates with us, obviously That's just it. We don't know where it'll head. We don't know if you're gonna go there My friend Ankur Tiwari keeps laughing at me. I said next will be petrochemical He's like you He just keeps laughing at me. He's like what is next because we just want to we want to do every We just look at us. We just want to do everything. But that's so great. Yeah, but in our own little small way And do the things we want to do and do the things we like that's it and we don't know where it'll head but it's what we Like what we want to put out into the world How how if if I am a young storyteller somewhere and I completely resonate with what tiger is putting out How do I get an entry? Is there there's an email as a website? Yeah, we have a website Also, firstly, if we want to interview material, please register it because we don't want any problems And just either contact the office contact the website and we are head of content is called work with you Contact him and please send your material in Yeah, sounds amazing cannot wait to see the RG Zoya. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Always good interviews. Yes, she's uh She she radiates, uh Genuine NT. What's the word? Genuineness. Genuineness. Yes. Is that the word? Genuineness. Genuineness. Yeah, you made that up That is a carbonized. No Zoya has a lot of genuinenity. Yeah A lot of genuinenity a lot of genuinenity and it it shows In her in her work and how she just I I love that she I don't think she makes a lot of films in terms of like it I think she does it every few years Yeah, I think she gives herself wholeheartedly to whatever she's working on and she doesn't let herself become distracted with multiple projects simultaneously that can deter her from Her her focus I mean, it's one thing to produce something and say I'm going to contribute the money that's needed over there. But as far as her Directing is concerned. I think she's very particular. I don't know if this is correct But she has a director for an untitled Amir Khan Zoya octar project Yeah, it's in script and then she's got two other things in pre-production That'd be good Zoya and Amir That'd be really good. Uh, yeah, she produced and she just produced that She wrote it And we heard a lot about But I'm excited for the Archies. I I love Zoya. I think she's a Really good unique director. Yeah, she is. She also usually has that I guess that is true. She does a little often times have a Coming of age feel to a lot of her films um and But it's usually I I'm more associated with just like Like it might be heavy at times, but you usually leave with a smile on your face With a Zoya film. Yeah, right? Mm-hmm. That's what I feel. She's very talented director. I would love to talk to Zoya Uh, consider she was the first Her film was the the start of the channel started the channel The trailer reaction and then there's the first film we saw in theaters Indian film we saw in theaters. Yep. And obviously loved it. Yep Rick has a I have up in the time I go on my arm, which I think she has seen We're pretty sure she's seen it. We've had multiple people send that that know her to her They know her personally and said I'm gonna send this to Zoya. They texted her. They texted her like It to Renvier. Yeah to Zoya. Yeah, and others. We haven't heard anything from any of those people No in terms of that's all right in terms of Feed bearing back other than Renvier saying he's watching some like Hawks replying to tweets, but Anyways, that's neither here nor there exactly I'm very much looking forward to it. Please let us know what other interviews We can watch of hers or others down below