 To life. To life. L'chaim. The what? L'chaim? There you go, ah, sorry. L'chaim, l'chaim, to life. May your good fortunes never come, your true whatever come. May your good fortunes never come. Never come. Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Is that not the real word? Wow, no, here we're gonna do that for that one. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! What's the opposite of this? First you put a rak, she eats a corvina. Umrek, you can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Insta Tweety Poop Kaka Subscribe if you haven't please. Hey like this video. Hey, is there an opposite? Is there like a curse? Why would you want to learn that to do it you? Not like a witch's curse, but at the opposite of that. Well, that's supposed to take away the evil eye Isn't this like you want to give me the evil eye? Ha, that's what I'm gonna do I'm the first one to ever think of that no one's ever thought of that ever Here we go today. We got a Nasseriddin Shah master class in acting. There he is in his speedo a Master class in acting master class in acting the serendipity on conversation Goodness, I'm excited. This is a nine minute video apparently Nasseriddin Shah talks about acting and I'd be very interested and There's a book that was sent that I started to read and I stopped because I wanted to be in the right headspace That I'm gonna jump into it this year, which is Indian method the method of particular approach to acting It's this book called Indian acting It's the one that puts his face and it's already the reason I stopped is I wanted to be in the right place because it's already Coming at it from a vantage point that I've not seen before Wonderfully, but also I'm sure I'm gonna be like yeah, I don't know that I agree with that And I don't want that to stop me from going full throttle into it So be really interested to see what this man has to say. Yeah Well, I'm excited about this Good content ends here subscribe and hit the bell icon to never miss a film from all india I won't give you a long lecture on how important it is to have passion and Certain element of madness as Zorba the Greek called it, but I'll tell you a little story About the first time I came to Bombay I was 16 years old. I Had run away from home That's another long story which you can read about in my memoirs if you're interested and there were these friends who hosted me and I got off at Bombay Center. I was 16 years old in 1966 We took the local train to Bandra and they put me up in a bungalow on Mount Mary So we drove past When we were coming out of Bandra station got into a cab to go to Mount Mary And on the way my friend said there's my boob studio And I turned around and I saw the emblem. It was much emptier than the studio really stood out My heart jumped to 48 frames per second, you know When I saw this place I saw the outside because I'd seen my boobs films and I think he's I still think he's one of our greatest filmmakers and I live a walking distance away, and I would walk up and down Just going past and ever dead even approach the Darwan because there was no question of being let in and And today here I am Legend and so on which is you know, I still find it hard to get my head around So my first question to you without further ado is why acting? Hmm for me Because it gave me a Okay, a sense of self-worth. I Wasn't good at anything When I was a child usually here from great acting to make matters worse. I had two brothers elder brothers and As all of you who are the youngest Sibling would know the youngest brother is no good for God man or beast And both these brothers were outstanding in their own ways one was a the brains and the other was the The hero the cat the champion athlete and the guy with the girlfriend and so on And I was the the idiot who wasn't good at anything Until I discovered my fondness for Poetry and my fondness for drama and this happened when I was about 12 or 13 I think I'd memorized the whole of Julius Caesar when I was 13 years old I still remember every word of it. Wow, we were taught it in class I would recite it to myself all the time and it was just great bliss. I would I Would I would Imitate actors I'd seen movies or actors I'd seen in plays and so on and most importantly and People don't believe this but it's really true There is an ailment It's an ailment called onomatopoeia Mania Onomatomania it's pausing. It's buffering mania means That you are impelled Symptoms of onomatomania are that you feel impelled to speak a line or a verse or a word Or anything that you've heard or read somewhere For no reason Other than for the joy of saying it. Pardon me. Are you here in Burr, sir? I was asking Dr. Lagu who I consider one of the greatest theater actors I've seen described himself as a bathroom actor Like there are bathroom singers There are bathroom actors all of us are bathroom actors and I'm sure many of you will find a resonance in this matter of onomatomania and none of us have it We just don't we just find ourselves reciting a line It may admit a little bit of love do I just find us have seen it for no reason at all I think that is the main reason I I became an actor because I enjoyed speaking things Rehearsed things. I don't enjoy. I'm not very good at starting conversations with strangers But I do love reading aloud and I and I do love reciting and perhaps that is what drove me to it And having come into it. I found I Can do a pop science psychology analysis of it and give you many Intellectual reasons, but I think that is really why I chose to be an actor and not a not try to join the army Or become an engineer also because I couldn't be bothered to study But was there like a specific movement when you saw an actor on stage and you suddenly or in a film that you thought Okay, I could do that But I wish I could do that. Oh many many times and and I think right from a very early age I saw very many movies one of you in school when I was young Both Hindi and English those those days. They were only Hollywood or British films. I'm talking of the early 50s I will be transported. I used to imagine myself as all those people all the time Being on the screen somehow seemed like an impossibility because it didn't look like a real world I Didn't believe these people actually existed These people one saw on the screen. It was when watching great Stuff on the stage that I realized that it's human beings who act and And the man who influenced me the most I realized later was Jeffrey Kendall Whose performance as I saw from the age of five Right until he he ended his his working career About 50 years later he influenced me a great deal Firstly because I was stunned by the quality of his his diction is his bodily Approach to every part and his versatility And the simplicity with which he staged things and That's what made me realize right then that That a play doesn't necessarily need a grand setting and it disturbs me greatly when I see plays done by young people Where they try to emulate a Broadway or something like that. You see these tatty attempts at creating magnificent sets And they just never work If there's anything that works on the stage from the stage what is transmitted is The stimulation of the audience's minds So I'm not at all in favor of these grand Productions which try to create an illusion on the stage The illusion has to be created in the listener's minds. That's why I've come to believe and I think that Seeing Mr. Kendall and his work so early in life helped me to crystallize this and I'll tell you a beautiful little story about Two actors in the no theater the Japanese no theater Which is an extremely stylized very formal Kind of theater which is performed in temples Where everything is codified all the gestures all the expressions all the emotions are codified There is a gesture for sadness. There is a gesture for despair. There is a gesture for anger, etc, etc There is a gesture for pointing at the moon Pointing at the moon great time. There were two actors one of whom when he appeared and Performed this gesture the audience gasped Because he was so graceful and so light and so beautiful to look at and so expressive and So technically proficient that when he performed the gesture the audience gasp There was another actor who had none of these qualities But when he pointed at the moon The audience saw the moon That could have been an hour at minimum Talking listening to great artists all day discuss their craft and their love for Their art and obviously there's and we He's famously the Deborah dad Yeah, because that is the first thing even though it might sound crazy to Indians The first thing we ever saw him on was the manada of the Deborah We call it the Deborah film because that's how that's all I can pronounce of that title Rithic film, but when he came on we said in the review and who was that was that he's a thespian. Yeah, he's great That's like saying Meryl Streep walks on oh, she's good Who's this Anthony hop hop kins as hopkins? I don't know. Yeah, but yeah, it's it's and it was evident in the one He did this year and the the pika film that I can't pronounce that obviously we loved And we thought everybody was so high, but he was just once again on another level Yeah, and the which is crazy because he was so small in that film right the fact that somebody that's Their character is so small and kind of pulled back And but their performance still stands out like crazy, of course just because like he said the guy Was nothing but he pointed to move and people were riveted. Yeah Great example. He's he's a man after my own heart what he said about that last aspect of The connectivity between the mind and and that's why so some of the some of the simplicity and yeah, I could I Could listen not just him, but I mean one of my favorite shows. They don't do it anymore Was the actor studio? I just I could watch those back to back to back to back to back to back to back Do you think What's his name? Oh Man, I see his face. Well, I just did the Will Ferrell from SNL. He was so great with him impression of him Lipton Lipton. Yeah, Richard Lipton Lipton. I used to love watching this. Oh my goodness There's a really wonderful episode of that. You can find it on YouTube Because they always took questions the first was Lipton would do the interview where you would talk for the first half And then he'd come back to the questions and he always asked Magnificent if you want to learn how to ask actors good questions watch watch Watch the actor studio because Lipton did a great job And put the reason he did is because he's so adored the art form But there's a really wonderful episode where I think it was um, it was either Al Pacino or Robert De Niro Who's the guest and a question came from one of the actors who was studying at the actor studio and Nobody knew who he was at the time and the question was coming from Bradley Cooper And he said hi, Mr. De Niro or Mr. Pacino. He says my name is Bradley Cooper He says hi nice to meet you and of course he asked a genuine question. It's very cool. Little did Bradley know that He'd become who he is today, but I yeah, we can listen to actors talk about acting literally all day long Especially somebody who's caliber. Yeah, absolutely knows what they're talking about and absolutely backs it up with Everything they've ever put on. Yeah screen. Has he ever put in a bad performance? I mean, yeah, that is the caveat They have to know what they're talking about. Yeah, obviously. Yeah, I'd be shocked if he was there I mean, obviously not that he was in a bad film. Obviously you could be the greatest actor and being bad films That's not and it's not always the yeah And you can have a different approach to acting and still be a great actor like I don't I don't agree with Robert Downey Jr.'s assessment of acting But there's no denying that Robert Downey Jr.'s a fantastic actor, but for him acting's lying And I feel the exact opposite I feel like acting is being truthful all the time I think it just depends on how you look at that question It's how you look at the question. You both might be saying the exact same thing in different ways But you're just thinking about it in a different way true Well, it is because even from his vantage point the reason you are doing what you do is to convince someone to believe It's true So whether your motivation is to give them truth or to give them a lie the ultimate result is for the He were to believe it's just how you interpret it. That's why there's belief is central That's why there's 10,000 different acting teachers that have different methods and many who've never been trained Yeah, and you believe them because they're being that's why so many kid actors are so amazing because they haven't learned anything Wrong, they just they know how to be sometimes. It's it's better to not have training Oh, absolutely because when what some people need the training obviously, but I think certain actors don't need all and then what they do themselves That's all you need. But what you need if you're an actor who's doing acting training What you really need to have is an as another up your coach who's ever coaching you with your acting Needs to be able to see past what I would refer to and my acting teacher one of them Referred to as your your toolkit because there we many times where I did a scene in class and Some people be wowed Plotting maybe even somebody we've been crying and Christie would say I Liked it, but I saw you working. I saw you using your tools You've got great tools Rick you've got really good tools and most people wouldn't recognize them But you know what I'm talking about and I was like damn it I know exactly what she's talking about and And that helps you you need to have somebody who'll be brutally honest and recognize whether or not you're being Genuine and in the moment or if you're just doing something to affect an act a response from your audience And I I wouldn't I want to listen to him Go on and on about acting all day On stage or screen, huh? I would love to I know he does theater all the time. I know but obviously since we're No access to it. Unfortunately. I know we just happen to be in Mumbai wherever he's doing a play But he's one of instantly I would be if we were if we were a Mumbai and I found out he was doing something on stage I would cancel whatever was happening. I have to go see him on stage Didn't he and Irfan do waiting for Godot, I Don't know who's your phone, but I know he did waiting for Godot, but that would have been good frickin grief Are you kidding me one of the greatest things? Are you kidding me? Yeah, oh And he's he's getting up there. I don't know how old he is, but obviously he's old. Well, he said he was 16 It was 1966 that means he was born in 1950 which means he turned 72 this year because that's the same year as my mom He's still young so still young. He's still he could May he have another 25 years another quarter century of work with us another 50 That's not another 50 Sarah anyways, let us know which we are next in the Saritan show I want to get to some of yeah Amazing younger performance and more acting things of course people talk about the craft Haters script to screen comparison that one. How about that one? Let us know down below