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June 9, 2026 — "Three Rooms, One Film — The 550th Episode" · The Bridge by Sammy Chand

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Speaker 1: South Asian music and cultures.
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Speaker 2: Can be found around the world. We've fact out the
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Speaker 2: best and presented here for you on Rugusvenue Radio.
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Speaker 3: Hi, this is Salem Merchant and you're listening to my
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Speaker 3: brother Sammy Chand's show called The Bridge on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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Speaker 4: Yo, this is still Bangals and you're listening to The
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Speaker 4: Bridge with Sammy Chand only on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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Speaker 3: Hi.
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Speaker 5: Everyone, this is Richmen Care and you're listening to the
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Speaker 5: Bridge with Sammi Chant.
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Speaker 6: So I hope you guys are ready for today's episode.
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Speaker 6: We'll make sure that this microphone is on for this one.
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Speaker 6: I'm excited about it. And you know, there's there's no
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Speaker 6: other way to contextualize today's guest other than to say
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Speaker 6: that she is the queen of Indian cinema. I'm referring
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Speaker 6: to Madrii Dixit and today we will have Madrii Dixit
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Speaker 6: on the air with us on this show, and she
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Speaker 6: is here to talk to us about her brand new
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Speaker 6: film called Ma Behen, a brand new film out on
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Speaker 6: Netflix and you've heard me talking about it here over
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Speaker 6: the last couple of days. And joining her on this
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Speaker 6: show will be the director of this film The Man
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Speaker 6: with the Vision, Suresh Trevenni, will also be joined by
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Speaker 6: one of the supporting actors in the film, The Great Performance,
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Speaker 6: Tarna Dorga, will be joining us. It's a great hour.
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Speaker 6: It's gonna be a great one. We'll go through some
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Speaker 6: of the music here involved with the film. So go
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Speaker 6: through some of the work that Madri Dixon has done
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Speaker 6: through the years and contextualize this appearance here on this show.
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Speaker 6: And on a personal note, what an exciting hour on
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Speaker 6: the Bridge. And it's only fitting today is episode five
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Speaker 6: hundred and fifty and to have one of the greatest
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Speaker 6: actors that we've ever had in Indian cinema appear today
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Speaker 6: is a special celebration. Indeed, we're going to start this
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Speaker 6: show off the right way, folks. This song is called
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Speaker 6: Joli Ki Pice. It's from the movie called Nayak. We'll
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Speaker 6: start off the show, folks.
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Speaker 7: Welcome to the Bridge.
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Speaker 8: Coo, Tony, can't you take ahead?
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Speaker 6: Johnny?
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Speaker 8: Can you cho Tony? Can't be take ahead? Johnny cant
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Speaker 8: p che TONI can you take ahead? Can me too?
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Speaker 9: Jollie man they hey me doun maye, hey me down,
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Speaker 9: Jolie Mandy, hey me up, maybe hang me up.
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Speaker 10: You don't.
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Speaker 11: Condy run da and Condy run I said, go run
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Speaker 11: and heat on.
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Speaker 9: She camel on, Sir, maybe person Jason, Maybe she okays Ipation.
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Speaker 12: Nation plays Nay Cocky Jealous.
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Speaker 8: You get to be Hockey Jealous.
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Speaker 6: An incredible performance in this movie and throughout her career.
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Speaker 6: Madri Dixit will be joining us today on the bridge,
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Speaker 6: looking forward to talking to her. Today will also be
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Speaker 6: joined by sure Trevenni Darnaa. This will be a great hour.
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Speaker 6: So as we get ready for this appearance today on
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Speaker 6: the bridge, got some songs to play for you. Here's
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Speaker 6: the song Na push there.
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Speaker 8: K p.
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Speaker 5: In Shani have albart Ne The Jamney Pigeon Napper.
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Speaker 10: Is sham Na.
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Speaker 8: Chi Kani Jr.
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Speaker 5: Shani have Albarta negra on The Jamney Pigeon Napper is
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Speaker 5: sham Nana.
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Speaker 10: It is the man who.
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Speaker 5: Lama but like it don't. Oh no no, I can
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Speaker 5: liken the garden, the car, crack the card, say.
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Speaker 10: Johnny per the.
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Speaker 5: Whilst I later a crown the Jumney pitcheon nap ed
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Speaker 5: got chi GANGII have arborn till the Johnny Pigeon For
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Speaker 5: women too many gardee any shot and I imagine the curricage.
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Speaker 5: Go to mecad pa ja don gard heading a copy dama.
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Speaker 8: A corzy to.
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Speaker 2: Today.
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Speaker 5: You need to phone Jamney pitch enough for the shots.
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Speaker 5: Change your Gardenishani have arbar.
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Speaker 10: You need pne t Jamney pitch up for the shot.
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Speaker 10: What's your Dead?
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Speaker 6: One of the top songs on the bridge right now
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Speaker 6: on the show, the song is called push the Sivy.
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Speaker 6: For this next song we've got, it's called cold Pingera.
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Speaker 6: It's from the movie mob Hen.
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Speaker 8: Bbc cho.
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Speaker 13: Follow me bare CanYa.
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Speaker 8: Okay in America, Bunny Hello, how jam.
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Speaker 14: Decay heads on?
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Speaker 3: Nick up, PingER up, Sammy Kay gin up, Sally Daddy
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Speaker 3: Munnia doesn't okay yeah on the game but damn hellay
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Speaker 3: said you give hey up?
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Speaker 10: Old yeah? Do you want to hammer jo Hey? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Guy Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Did he on about the shana I every peak torn
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Speaker 4: out at the rug?
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Speaker 15: Oh, the pigg holding the picture, go the pje hold
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Speaker 15: the pigs and jas up and jek to one percent
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Speaker 15: out coming off. Hold the pigeon, dog, Hold the pigeon,
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Speaker 15: Hold the pigeon, hold the pig.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, even the hair. Did he on about every beak
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Speaker 10: torn out in the rug?
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Speaker 2: Hold the pig, hold the.
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Speaker 15: Big old, hold the big, hold, hold the jog.
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Speaker 6: That's do today.
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Speaker 2: He no no, no, no no no.
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Speaker 8: Sing the g jesse called Eli body.
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Speaker 9: Hurricane on the beach of the time church hordayda how
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Speaker 9: to make them horlight?
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Speaker 10: The had to do.
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Speaker 3: Chief Nobody saying every he's a chatting all about.
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Speaker 10: Yeah you wanna have a sola?
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Speaker 3: Hey yeah god yeah there you on about the say
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Speaker 3: everything got out the rug.
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Speaker 16: Hold the picture, up the.
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Speaker 10: Jo up and cheka to.
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Speaker 1: Hold the big, hold the big.
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Speaker 6: Such a tongue in cheek reference. The song is called
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Speaker 6: It's from the movie Maha Ben and it's a great soundtrack.
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Speaker 6: I hope you guys go enjoy it. It's out now
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Speaker 6: on T series and folks, as we get ready for
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Speaker 6: an appearance from Madri Dixit, Sursh Trevenni and Darna Dorga
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Speaker 6: here very shortly, let's bring in doctor Roy to the
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Speaker 6: episode with today's Word on the Avenue.
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Speaker 17: Hey guys, this is doctor Roy with Today's Word on
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Speaker 17: the Avenue and film and TV news filmmaker Brianca christians
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Speaker 17: Tamils short film Malum recently premiered at the twenty twenty
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Speaker 17: six New York Indian Film Festival, using sharp comedy to
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Speaker 17: explore the pressures of marriage, social status, and the obsession
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Speaker 17: with the pairing perfect. Starring Samyukda Viola, the film follows
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Speaker 17: a bride to be whose dream of marrying into high
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Speaker 17: society hinges on maintaining an illusion of purity, offering a
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Speaker 17: satirical look at expectations still placed on women in South
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Speaker 17: Asian communities in media years. Bunjabistar Apudila has joined forces
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Speaker 17: with Grammy winning producer boy One Da and artists for
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Speaker 17: Born Winner, the official anthem of the Canada soccer head
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Speaker 17: of the FIFA World Cup. The collaboration marks another global
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Speaker 17: major milestone for South Asian representation music, bringing Punjabi talent
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Speaker 17: to one of the world's biggest sporting stages. In event news,
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Speaker 17: plans are underway for America's first museum dedicated to India's
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Speaker 17: civilizational heritage in Washington, d C. The proposed India Heritage
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Speaker 17: Center will showcase India's contribution to science, philosophy, art and culture,
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Speaker 17: offering visitors a deeper understanding of one of the world's
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Speaker 17: oldest continuous civilizations. That's it for today's word on the
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Speaker 17: Avenue until next time.
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Speaker 6: Thank you so much, doctor Roy. And as we get
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Speaker 6: ready for the big interview here with Madri Dixit, you
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Speaker 6: start to think of the big songs that she was
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Speaker 6: involved with in her career and this one is one
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Speaker 6: of the big ones as well. When it comes to
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Speaker 6: big choreography that she performed. It's with Ashwarya Rai from
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Speaker 6: the movie dvdas the song is called, do La Rey.
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Speaker 8: To talk.
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Speaker 18: You do?
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Speaker 2: Do you do that you do?
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Speaker 5: Do?
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Speaker 2: Do?
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Speaker 19: Do?
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Speaker 2: Do?
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Speaker 20: Do?
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Speaker 2: Do?
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Speaker 8: Don't I do? I don't know? Imna do I an't.
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Speaker 21: Do No Johnny, don't give it, Johnny, don't Johnny.
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Speaker 9: Johnny give me john.
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Speaker 8: Bask the doole.
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Speaker 9: But he's get to the roof, but he's gonna got.
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Speaker 8: The junky jumping. Do you do what you do?
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Speaker 20: What you do?
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Speaker 2: And I didn't do it?
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Speaker 8: Now I'm doing?
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Speaker 2: Do you cool?
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Speaker 8: And I didn't do Now I'm doing I did? Do
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Speaker 8: they count you?
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Speaker 2: They they didn't cop.
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Speaker 8: You have asy by com.
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Speaker 21: Yup yoo yah, really lucky giving me on me boot,
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Speaker 21: don't give me the homies.
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Speaker 8: Ready to come with me?
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Speaker 10: Boo?
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Speaker 8: What good people to houry change check Chuck Chuck Chuck
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Speaker 8: Chu ch Chicken leg kind let it me.
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Speaker 12: To HOI change it chr Bible because he nicky kind
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Speaker 12: of under me?
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Speaker 8: Okay bo can I cover it all? But heads give
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Speaker 8: me ball can be with me?
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Speaker 15: Not j.
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Speaker 8: Do WNDO and I hold on, I don't know what I'm.
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Speaker 2: Unders I don't know sting top shop shop.
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Speaker 6: Stop man. What an incredibly difficult job of trying to
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Speaker 6: pin down one of the top performances from a legend
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Speaker 6: like Madi Dixit This song Dola with her great performance
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Speaker 6: and great choreography with Ashwarya Rai on that song certainly
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Speaker 6: one of the big legendary moments and all of Indian cinema. Indeed,
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Speaker 6: we're looking forward to talking to Madie Dixon about her
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Speaker 6: starring role as playing Ricca, an incredibly complex character. Indeed,
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Speaker 6: can't wait, God.
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Speaker 22: Kadi ya kij say god kadi yaki, I'll say.
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Speaker 8: What is on the game? That is a game?
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Speaker 14: I didn't gonna telly to tag man Kaya Hua Samana
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Speaker 14: inca particle pay to buy a litority? Yes, samnad, Hey
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Speaker 14: are you young ram head man?
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Speaker 22: I'm saying, got he logic pull a pot hold tell
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Speaker 22: email man.
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Speaker 10: Tells Nadia Handa guitar.
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Speaker 22: Banaa Yaddi Daddy Paddy Jose, Yadi Paddy Paddy who sail game.
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Speaker 10: Letter you got wrong.
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Speaker 22: By Saramana Dada mody by Sanamanda dad r mody b
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Speaker 22: A sanaa game Llinayata bullham.
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Speaker 2: Lad adm.
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Speaker 22: John says hockey to Kuramataki kakish Ja conna mana j
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Speaker 22: com Jani shallow manahakamatakanah holida Sadama and said, god get
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Speaker 22: luka kahanak jab jack cannot be had bum Yeah, the
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Speaker 22: Yadi Paddy who said yeah, the Yadi Paddy who said
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Speaker 22: hell game.
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Speaker 6: It's called Gotti. Gotti is from the Ma Behen soundtrack.
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Speaker 6: As we get ready to invite the legend into this show,
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Speaker 6: Madori Dixit will be joining us at the end of
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Speaker 6: this one. She'll talk to us about her brand new
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Speaker 6: film called ma Behen. This song is called Ajam, produced
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Speaker 6: by Selima and Salimon. One of the biggest songs that
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Speaker 6: Madrii Dixit has ever performed to stand by.
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Speaker 11: Folks me that to put back in the card over
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Speaker 11: here took you, but the gave my stre.
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Speaker 8: Make better give.
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Speaker 18: You go to talking after that.
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Speaker 2: Attaching.
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Speaker 8: Then let me that you let the left that creature
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Speaker 8: nackt let touching them.
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Speaker 18: Maybe God, you let the left.
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Speaker 8: I'm going only talking for her. So before me knocking
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Speaker 8: at your attaching the let me the left tune that
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Speaker 8: coature knack and.
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Speaker 12: Let nuch let mee god left, I'm going only talking.
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Speaker 8: About a.
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Speaker 18: Back, namely the bay. You craby not to be batty.
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Speaker 18: They just think baby isn't bad.
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Speaker 8: You don't allays. Oh, I guess you wanta made afect people. Okay, Chuck,
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Speaker 8: you got it, Chuck.
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Speaker 12: Let let me ya.
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Speaker 8: June creatures. Oh, let that you let me yard goes on,
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Speaker 8: Lisa Heapa.
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Speaker 2: So for meg, let let me.
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Speaker 12: Juneau and go let me let me Ya'm.
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Speaker 8: Going onlya help. Do you care that the telly hockey
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Speaker 8: job by the top, Oh you don't the money from man?
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Speaker 8: No monkey?
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Speaker 20: Come?
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Speaker 2: What is it.
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Speaker 8: You want to jump?
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Speaker 22: You touching?
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Speaker 12: Let lemony the left that could China continue? Let nuchlemy
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Speaker 12: you j I'm good, don't you tell him? So promnocking
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Speaker 12: aug let lemine the jet that could China could ten.
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Speaker 2: Come on?
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Speaker 6: The song is called and folks, it is my distinct
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Speaker 6: honor to invite into the show. The cast of the
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Speaker 6: film mob Hen, including Madori, Dixit, Darna Dorga and director
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Speaker 6: s Restvenni Folks. First of all, congratulations on an incredible
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Speaker 6: achievement of hitting that finished line on yet another film
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Speaker 6: and you just put it out on Netflix here just
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Speaker 6: several days ago. My first question, MADRII G if you
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Speaker 6: don't mind, I'd like to turn my attention to you.
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Speaker 6: What an incredible performance? What an incredible character? Uh, someone
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Speaker 6: that is very mysterious and never is quite forgiving in
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Speaker 6: eany anything that she is accused of. Tell us about
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Speaker 6: this character and tell us what really attracted you to her?
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Speaker 23: Well, a lot of things.
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Speaker 24: First of all, you know, in typical Hindi movies, the
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Speaker 24: mother is always revered. You know, she's put on a pedestal,
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Speaker 24: she can do no wrong. She's not like the typical
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Speaker 24: Hindi movie mother.
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Speaker 23: She yeah, she is not. I mean.
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Speaker 24: Usually in Hindi films, her mother always puts all her
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Speaker 24: kids before her. She will sacrifice for them, she will
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Speaker 24: you know, serve them food before eating. And you know
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Speaker 24: those kind of very idealistic kind of mothers that they've
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Speaker 24: always shown on in the Hindi films.
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Speaker 23: But this was like completely opposite of that.
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Speaker 6: She is.
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Speaker 24: She's crazy, she's chaotic, She she makes up, she makes
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Speaker 24: bad decisions, and she pulls her both her daughters into
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Speaker 24: her chaos, you know, and what unfolds after that.
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Speaker 23: She does not.
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Speaker 24: Stick to societal norm she does not conform to it,
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Speaker 24: so people don't know who she is.
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Speaker 22: You know, she's.
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Speaker 24: Mysterious and that's why there's so many rumors about her.
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Speaker 24: And she's a single mother, and so people look at
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Speaker 24: her differently. And I thought these were all aspects we've
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Speaker 24: seen in society, experienced it, and I feel, you know,
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Speaker 24: for me to play this character was amazing because she's
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Speaker 24: so relatable, right, you know in her chaos, yes.
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Speaker 6: Yes, as chaotic as she was very relatable, but there's
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Speaker 6: something really mysterious. Like I mentioned to you that you
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Speaker 6: never get your arms around exactly what it is that
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Speaker 6: she does and who she is. There's so many innuendos
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Speaker 6: to the effect. But yeah, it's a fascinating character. Let's
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Speaker 6: turn our attention to mister Surrechtraveni, who is the director
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Speaker 6: of the film and of course the man who imagines
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Speaker 6: this character and then finds the one. Maderi dixi G
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Speaker 6: to come portray this. Could you have imagined this to
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Speaker 6: go any better? I mean, this is quite an amazing
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Speaker 6: accomplishment of putting this wild character together with with a
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Speaker 6: screen legend.
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Speaker 1: I think that they.
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Speaker 25: Madri Maam agreed to do this. I think it already
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Speaker 25: elevated because it was a dream come true for me.
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Speaker 25: We always thought that, I mean both me and my
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Speaker 25: writer we always wanted Rick Har to be played by her,
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Speaker 25: and luckily that happened. As a filmmaker, you are, I mean,
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Speaker 25: I think you're constantly wanting to up your game, and
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Speaker 25: I don't think so at any particular point you can
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Speaker 25: constantly say.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've done it. But I hope because for me,
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Speaker 1: after watching it so many times, you lose your objectivity. Sure,
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Speaker 1: but I hope.
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Speaker 25: It's a great experience to watch a character like her
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Speaker 25: and watch MD play that role like the way she
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Speaker 25: has done that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, she has got.
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Speaker 25: Unhinged and she's given it all right, And for me,
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Speaker 25: that's like already lifting my character.
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Speaker 6: That's really interesting because you know, you get the feeling
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Speaker 6: that somebody like MADRII G has you know, has done
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Speaker 6: it all. You know, you've seen the bookends of of
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Speaker 6: what she what you would portray, but in comes this
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Speaker 6: really interesting character that really stretches her imagination into a
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Speaker 6: new place. And Madigi, if you don't mind me asking
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Speaker 6: you and turning my attention to you here again? You know,
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Speaker 6: how was that on set? You know, you're you're playing
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Speaker 6: this character. It's a very interesting person. The cameras are
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Speaker 6: rolling and of course you're there, and then the cameras
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Speaker 6: turn off and this chemistry kind of continues. There's this
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Speaker 6: kind of vibe. You have so many interesting kind of
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Speaker 6: actors there. How was that? How did you kind of
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Speaker 6: maintained that vibe if you will around around Rica?
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Speaker 24: Well, I think because I understood the character. I understood
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Speaker 24: her chaos. I enjoyed her chaos, and I saw the
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Speaker 24: humor in it, and I saw the humanity and her
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Speaker 24: you know, chaos, and that's what helped. And of course
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Speaker 24: Sash is someone I had always wanted to work with
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Speaker 24: ever since I had seen them Mari Sulu, because I
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Speaker 24: thought the way he picturized women and the way he
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Speaker 24: thought about women was very very different, you know, and
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Speaker 24: it was something in my you know, realm the women
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Speaker 24: that he portrayed, and so so I was always wanting
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Speaker 24: to work with him, and when these two things came
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Speaker 24: together where he was directing and I was acting in it,
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Speaker 24: I think it just became amazing for me, Like we
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Speaker 24: just jelled and we saw the cat actually in the
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Speaker 24: same way, and and that's what made it happen.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Darna, here's an opportunity for you to work with
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Speaker 6: some amazing people on a set and first of all,
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Speaker 6: your your work, your character that you play here working
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Speaker 6: opposite Tripty, I think the chemistry is just awesome. The
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Speaker 6: sibling rivalry is a real thing that you guys both
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Speaker 6: portray so well. Tell us about that role and tell
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Speaker 6: us about the chemistry that you have with Ripley and
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Speaker 6: this whole sibling rivalry that you play.
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Speaker 19: It was natural for us also because we were the
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Speaker 19: same offset teasing each other, making fun of each other,
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Speaker 19: So it was so natural for us to just act
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Speaker 19: it on camera, right. So, yeah, we're very comfortable with
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Speaker 19: each other. We are from the same college. Apparently there
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Speaker 19: was such a coincidence for both of us. We're from Relli,
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Speaker 19: so there's there are a lot of things that we
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Speaker 19: relate to and the same siblings born that we had key,
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Speaker 19: you know, while doing this.
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Speaker 23: We used to remember.
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Speaker 19: All of that, so I think we could relate, We
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Speaker 19: could understand, and we could feel this scene, this this
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Speaker 19: kios that was happening between us and that that is
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Speaker 19: why it was so natural for us.
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Speaker 23: And I'm glad it's coming home.
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Speaker 6: I saw it. Yes, it was very palpable, very very palpable, Darnette.
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Speaker 6: The two of you guys did a great job there,
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Speaker 6: for sure. I was going to bring up something I
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Speaker 6: saw something reoccurring in the film, and that was the
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Speaker 6: snakes and Ladder game. I had a question, did you
33:35
Speaker 6: guys ever play snakes and ladders in between shots? And
33:39
Speaker 6: if so, who won the games? Here? Madit can you
33:45
Speaker 6: please speak on this level?
33:47
Speaker 23: I think we played all kinds of games on the set.
33:50
Speaker 24: It was from Antaccheri to singing songs and just being
33:55
Speaker 24: crazy to you know, stealing stuff from the set.
33:58
Speaker 23: We can did it all. Yeah, yeah, sorry sorry, please yeah,
34:05
Speaker 23: please go ahead.
34:06
Speaker 25: No, I have to add something because the snake and
34:09
Speaker 25: ladder was only in the flashback, which is actually when
34:12
Speaker 25: Madrim and the right young kids, but during the workshop
34:17
Speaker 25: and me we saw the three of them because in
34:19
Speaker 25: the workshop, one of the excises work three of them
34:21
Speaker 25: were playing, and that was I have a still of that,
34:24
Speaker 25: and that was one of the most peaceful moments that
34:26
Speaker 25: I saw. And we decided that we have to bring
34:29
Speaker 25: it in the present day, and that's why it happens
34:33
Speaker 25: in the same place, in the same bed wherever they So,
34:37
Speaker 25: I mean.
34:38
Speaker 1: It was very hard. I mean getting goosebumps thinking about it.
34:40
Speaker 1: What an interesting question.
34:41
Speaker 6: Thank you, mister Trevenni. I had another question for you, sir,
34:46
Speaker 6: while we're on this, while we're in this area, and
34:49
Speaker 6: that is that you know, you you you have a
34:51
Speaker 6: title like Ma Behan pretty tongue in cheek. You know,
34:56
Speaker 6: it has all kinds of implications and undertones to the title.
35:01
Speaker 6: At what point did you look at the title of
35:02
Speaker 6: the film and saying, yeah, this is it.
35:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I believe that. I think the moment.
35:08
Speaker 25: You might not remember sometimes the story of a film,
35:10
Speaker 25: but you'd always remember the name.
35:12
Speaker 1: And I think the name of a movie really matters.
35:16
Speaker 25: Maybe it's my advertising background, because when I started first
35:22
Speaker 25: ide eating about it, this was one of the title
35:25
Speaker 25: came first to me. I wanted to do a story
35:28
Speaker 25: of a wrecked family, of a wrecked mother and two
35:32
Speaker 25: rec daughters, so there was no the I.
35:34
Speaker 1: Found that this title would be very appropriate mar Behen.
35:38
Speaker 25: There was another alternate title called luctionhon Atiutam, but we
35:43
Speaker 25: felt that nothing better than this. It just adds on
35:46
Speaker 25: to it, and also it kind of summarizes if you
35:48
Speaker 25: see the film, it ends, it ends with a mar Behen.
35:52
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying coming in the contract world, right?
35:55
Speaker 25: And I think so Apart from being cheeky and all
35:57
Speaker 25: of that, yes, but I was also very conscious along
36:01
Speaker 25: with my writer that uh, we're not it's not a
36:03
Speaker 25: gimmick and we're very responsible as to why we choose
36:06
Speaker 25: this particular tyit.
36:08
Speaker 6: Right, Thank you. You know, Darna wanted to turn my
36:12
Speaker 6: attention towards you. You play Sushma, who's a very interesting character,
36:17
Speaker 6: very confident, kind of holds the accountability over the family,
36:24
Speaker 6: no nonsense. If you will, how much of your personality
36:30
Speaker 6: is in Sushma, how much of Darna is in Sushma?
36:35
Speaker 6: And tell us about that, tell us about you know,
36:38
Speaker 6: your portrayal here. It's really well done, thank you.
36:42
Speaker 19: There were certain things where I could relate with Sushma, definitely,
36:46
Speaker 19: where I could feel the pain that she must be
36:49
Speaker 19: going through, the anger that she must be going through
36:53
Speaker 19: eqs me. You know why she's like skator seeing you
36:58
Speaker 19: must have seen, yes, so I could feel all of
37:01
Speaker 19: that emotions definitely. But there was some things about Sushma
37:07
Speaker 19: that I feel I could have the confidence the you know,
37:13
Speaker 19: she's so expressive and she's confused.
37:16
Speaker 23: That's me. That's definitely weak. But there are a lot
37:21
Speaker 23: of things that I learned from Sushma. I just love Sushma.
37:24
Speaker 23: She is just real.
37:26
Speaker 19: She's out there, she's expressive, she's emotional, she's confused.
37:29
Speaker 23: She's chaotic, she's everything.
37:32
Speaker 19: But yeah, definitely that one scene, I will say that
37:35
Speaker 19: I could relate to her and I could feel the pain.
37:38
Speaker 23: So yeah, that was it that I could relate to her.
37:41
Speaker 6: Yeah, Madriji, I had a question for you. You're pulling
37:46
Speaker 6: off this character in a brand new Netflix world. You know,
37:52
Speaker 6: I get the impression that this platform gives you some
37:56
Speaker 6: room to experiment. Yes, tell us about that.
38:01
Speaker 24: I think it allows you to take chances because you're
38:04
Speaker 24: not bogged down by, you know, the commercial aspect of
38:08
Speaker 24: making the film in the sense will it make the
38:11
Speaker 24: money in the theaters? Will it do this, will it
38:14
Speaker 24: do that? So there are no pressures when you make
38:16
Speaker 24: this kind of a movie. Even for the filmmakers. I
38:21
Speaker 24: think they can you know, write the script they want,
38:26
Speaker 24: portray the characters that they want to, and create a
38:30
Speaker 24: film a world in which people can walk into and experience,
38:35
Speaker 24: you know. And I think it's it's possible because of Netflix.
38:40
Speaker 24: It's you know, it has democratized filmmaking basically, and you know,
38:45
Speaker 24: filmmakers can tell their stories in their language in the
38:50
Speaker 24: way they want to picturize it.
38:52
Speaker 23: And also, you know, it has become.
38:56
Speaker 24: You know, a great place to discover talent as well,
39:00
Speaker 24: because there's so much talent that has come into the
39:03
Speaker 24: industry through OTT. And I think Dharna is a great
39:08
Speaker 24: example of digital you know, uh, digitally discovering talent. And
39:13
Speaker 24: she's amazing in the movie So stripty. And I think
39:16
Speaker 24: we all came together and the camaraderie that we formed.
39:19
Speaker 24: I think you can see the chemistry on screen between
39:23
Speaker 24: three of us. So I think it has definitely helped
39:27
Speaker 24: filmmakers to make films totally free of you know, any
39:34
Speaker 24: kind of pressures.
39:36
Speaker 6: Yeah, Madriti is there. You know, do you have a
39:40
Speaker 6: lot of feed did you have a lot of feedback
39:43
Speaker 6: on the character as you're going through the filming and
39:46
Speaker 6: whether moments there where you said, you know, I see
39:49
Speaker 6: Rica doing this, so I see Rica doing that. We
39:51
Speaker 6: are moments like that.
39:53
Speaker 24: Yeah, I mean there are moments you you know, you
39:57
Speaker 24: you feel maybe I should do it this way, or
39:59
Speaker 24: maybe I should do it that way. There's spontaneity you
40:02
Speaker 24: improvise on this set sometimes, so all that is there,
40:06
Speaker 24: but you know, when you are the captain of the
40:08
Speaker 24: ship is so strong.
40:11
Speaker 23: He is amazing.
40:12
Speaker 24: He's visualized these characters and you know, he knows all
40:17
Speaker 24: of them in and out. And I have to tell
40:19
Speaker 24: you that he himself is such a good actor that
40:23
Speaker 24: when he had narrated this script to us, it kind
40:26
Speaker 24: of played a bar on what your performance level has
40:30
Speaker 24: to be. And we all like, we just understood our
40:34
Speaker 24: characters when he performed them the way he did, and
40:38
Speaker 24: the rest was so easy, you know, when all of
40:40
Speaker 24: us got together and it was just just.
40:42
Speaker 23: The chemistry, the amazing, the craziness that happened on the set.
40:47
Speaker 24: So it all kind of helped to create these characters
40:50
Speaker 24: and the performances.
40:51
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, on that level. You know, to mister
40:55
Speaker 6: Tavani's credit, I think that he did an amazing job
40:59
Speaker 6: of maintain gaining that kind of energy and that vibe
41:02
Speaker 6: on the set. I'll tell you why. I could see it.
41:05
Speaker 6: There were moments in the in the film where there
41:07
Speaker 6: were reactions that were made by the cast, and they
41:10
Speaker 6: came across so convincing, and my my feeling is that
41:14
Speaker 6: that could have only been achieved, that there was true
41:16
Speaker 6: chemistry on the set. And I guess my question is,
41:20
Speaker 6: mister Trevenni, to your to you, you know, how was that?
41:24
Speaker 6: How was it managing that and maintaining this kind of
41:28
Speaker 6: north star in a film? It's clearly different, but you're
41:30
Speaker 6: you have to sell everybody on it, and you have
41:32
Speaker 6: to say, hey, go with me on this. You know,
41:34
Speaker 6: how'd that work?
41:35
Speaker 25: I believe that every one in the film, every participant
41:40
Speaker 25: in the film is a stakeholder, and I feel that
41:42
Speaker 25: after a particular part I can sound intelligent, but my
41:44
Speaker 25: I think the only thing that I believe is that.
41:49
Speaker 1: Once you take onus of your off your job.
41:53
Speaker 25: But there as an actor over there, as a technician
41:56
Speaker 25: over here, the three of them, we knew that they're
42:00
Speaker 25: very intelligent people.
42:01
Speaker 1: They knew that this won't work if this is fake.
42:05
Speaker 25: So what we did was we pretended to go to
42:08
Speaker 25: a workshop and where we just spend some time, and
42:12
Speaker 25: the three of them, I'm.
42:14
Speaker 1: Very very intelligent people.
42:15
Speaker 25: They realize that unless we surrender to the cause of
42:19
Speaker 25: the character, and unless we don't bring anyone else but.
42:24
Speaker 1: Just the characters in the room. And I have to
42:26
Speaker 1: give all the credit.
42:28
Speaker 25: I know that she's now a board of appreciations, but
42:32
Speaker 25: I have to give all the credit to the Madi
42:35
Speaker 25: addiction because she made it all very comfortable. What do
42:39
Speaker 25: you say when you walk into a room where she's sitting, Okay,
42:44
Speaker 25: you have to clear your throat. I mean like you
42:47
Speaker 25: need to be a little responsible about it. So I
42:49
Speaker 25: think she took over very silently, without making a big tea.
42:53
Speaker 1: And she was the one.
42:54
Speaker 25: There were very many times while the performances were happening
42:57
Speaker 25: she was a not stuff for my other two actors,
43:00
Speaker 25: Beat Dhara, beat Trip Thick. And those are the silent ones,
43:03
Speaker 25: not the loud ones that hey, listen to me, I'm
43:05
Speaker 25: in the room. There will be the small notes. She
43:06
Speaker 25: will even tell me that and in a very silent manner,
43:09
Speaker 25: get very clearly. Remember it will just be She'll just
43:12
Speaker 25: be you know what I think. So it's not like suraish.
43:14
Speaker 1: I want to know. It's always those notes which made
43:18
Speaker 1: a big, big difference and rest. I think once you
43:22
Speaker 1: have a good atmosphere.
43:24
Speaker 25: When you want to make a memory out of fortyven days,
43:27
Speaker 25: I think everyone's greedy for being happy in life, right,
43:31
Speaker 25: So I think it all follows.
43:32
Speaker 1: Sorry, my reply was too long.
43:34
Speaker 6: No no, no, it was great. It was gold. That
43:36
Speaker 6: was excellent. Thank you, Thank you for sharing that. By
43:38
Speaker 6: the way, Thank you so much. Darna. Do you ever
43:42
Speaker 6: pinch yourself and say, you know, I'm sharing a screen
43:47
Speaker 6: with a legend here? You know, at what point does
43:49
Speaker 6: it hit you?
43:50
Speaker 19: This feeling is going to remain every time I'm going
43:53
Speaker 19: to watch my movie on Netflix? So too, right, live,
43:57
Speaker 19: So I did this, Really.
44:00
Speaker 23: It's still the same. I can't process that feeling. I
44:04
Speaker 23: don't think Sila will be able to.
44:06
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I must imagine that there's probably a
44:10
Speaker 6: lifetime of knowledge and just anecdote that you pick up
44:14
Speaker 6: from working with somebody like a Madriji on set there.
44:18
Speaker 6: So I'm sure that that's a lifetime experience that you'll
44:21
Speaker 6: enjoy and certainly cove it for the rest of your life. So,
44:24
Speaker 6: you know, I had a question for you Madriji. This
44:27
Speaker 6: being a film that just came out here several days ago,
44:32
Speaker 6: was in front of the whole world to see when
44:35
Speaker 6: it comes to Netflix. You know, everybody that goes to
44:37
Speaker 6: their Netflix homepages this last weekend saw the film right there.
44:42
Speaker 6: An entire world. You know, the Indian cinema world is
44:45
Speaker 6: enjoying a moment here. Tell us about what you think.
44:50
Speaker 23: I think engine cinema is going through amazing moments.
44:55
Speaker 24: Right now and has been you know, from such a
45:01
Speaker 24: his films too. You know, there was a period when
45:05
Speaker 24: Hindi cinema then became very uh uh India centric, and
45:09
Speaker 24: then suddenly it exploded with theaters everywhere, and you know,
45:14
Speaker 24: it gave it a new lease of life and people
45:16
Speaker 24: started watching again films like Dave Das you know who
45:20
Speaker 24: made it to Cohns and now so many other.
45:23
Speaker 23: Films to follow.
45:24
Speaker 24: And I think it's it's it's a great moment for
45:27
Speaker 24: Indian cinema because of also Ott and you know Netflix,
45:32
Speaker 24: where it reaches to like I don't know, one hundred
45:35
Speaker 24: and ninety six countries or something, and it's going to
45:38
Speaker 24: be dubbed in twelve different languages or a wide audience.
45:43
Speaker 23: You know, and the characters are relatable.
45:47
Speaker 24: Uh, you know, cultures might be different, but the emotions
45:50
Speaker 24: are always the same everywhere. And when you watch, you know,
45:54
Speaker 24: different films from different languages, like say a Spanish movie
45:58
Speaker 24: or the k drama, the basic emotions are the same,
46:02
Speaker 24: but you also get to see a different culture. The
46:05
Speaker 24: cultural context changes and so it becomes fascinating. And I
46:10
Speaker 24: think the same goes for our Indian cinema, where it's
46:13
Speaker 24: so steeped in culture and yet the emotions are going
46:17
Speaker 24: to be the same.
46:18
Speaker 20: You know.
46:18
Speaker 23: It's like the Big Bad Greek Wedding.
46:20
Speaker 24: You know, Rich kind of touched on it everywhere and
46:25
Speaker 24: people loved it, you know, so we're hoping the same
46:27
Speaker 24: for this film.
46:28
Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you, Thank you so much for sharing that.
46:32
Speaker 6: You know that the ladies carry this film to me,
46:35
Speaker 6: the three leading ladies, they really did, and to me,
46:39
Speaker 6: what a great moment for us to be telling the
46:42
Speaker 6: stories from this kind of perspective. And I think Madri
46:45
Speaker 6: you touched on it earlier when you said that you
46:48
Speaker 6: really enjoyed the way mister Trevenni goes about picturizing women,
46:53
Speaker 6: and in this case he certainly hits another home run
46:56
Speaker 6: here and mister Travennie, I turned the attention towards you.
47:00
Speaker 6: Hear on this matter. You know, tell us about this.
47:05
Speaker 6: You know you get the feeling that a character like
47:07
Speaker 6: Rica a number of years ago doesn't get to fly
47:11
Speaker 6: like it does here. And here you are with three
47:15
Speaker 6: women leading the film. You know, this is a good
47:19
Speaker 6: time to be telling stories.
47:21
Speaker 1: You're true and what's happening. It's high time that I
47:24
Speaker 1: think we start.
47:26
Speaker 25: Of course, we want representation, we want more women in characters,
47:29
Speaker 25: but now I think they should come out of their
47:31
Speaker 25: actors first, then the gender. Okay, what I'm loving about
47:36
Speaker 25: this face is the hunger that I see in actors
47:42
Speaker 25: who are women the fire because they have been I
47:47
Speaker 25: mean a talent like MADERI. I mean, we've been around
47:51
Speaker 25: and proving us again and again and again, and there's
47:54
Speaker 25: so much more left. It's incredible. So I feel that
47:58
Speaker 25: we're in a great time. I think that's where platforms
48:01
Speaker 25: like Netflix comes into the picture, where they allow us
48:03
Speaker 25: to express and I think till the time we don't
48:05
Speaker 25: get aware of it, and we don't fake it and
48:08
Speaker 25: just have women as protagonists and do nothing with them
48:11
Speaker 25: that could be like a wrong service. I feel that
48:14
Speaker 25: there are so many untold stories waiting to be told.
48:17
Speaker 25: I hope this leads the path.
48:19
Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you, thank you for that, mister Trevenni Madri.
48:24
Speaker 6: Guh you know you're you're You've taken on this very
48:27
Speaker 6: different role here. We've talked about it quite a bit here,
48:30
Speaker 6: this new dark comedy kind of thing. Could this could
48:36
Speaker 6: this be something new? Could this be another angle in
48:39
Speaker 6: your in your work? Yes?
48:41
Speaker 24: Absolutely, And I'm so glad that we have writers who
48:45
Speaker 24: are writing these kind of roles, we had directors who
48:49
Speaker 24: are wanting.
48:50
Speaker 23: To make these kind of films.
48:51
Speaker 24: And for women in cinema, it's amazing, it's an amazing
48:55
Speaker 24: uh uh you know, uh change because uh, like I said,
49:00
Speaker 24: Ott has also created the space for women where the
49:05
Speaker 24: stories are told through the eyes of the women, you know,
49:08
Speaker 24: and stories are told where the woman is the main
49:12
Speaker 24: you know character and everything revolves around them, and such
49:18
Speaker 24: wonderful stories coming there. And you know, this world is
49:21
Speaker 24: like how many stories must be there, you know, even
49:25
Speaker 24: in India and from every corner because you cross the
49:30
Speaker 24: state line and everything changes, the culture changes, the experiences changes,
49:35
Speaker 24: and everything for changes, and there's so many stories, you know,
49:39
Speaker 24: waiting to be told, Like Sah said from India itself,
49:42
Speaker 24: and I'm so glad that we have writers and directors
49:47
Speaker 24: who are headed in that direction and creating you know,
49:51
Speaker 24: these spaces for women, uh, you know, to own and
49:57
Speaker 24: go ahead with.
49:58
Speaker 25: Yeah.
49:58
Speaker 6: Well, congratulations on film. Thank you and wishing you all
50:02
Speaker 6: the very best here and uh, ladies and gentlemen, thank
50:05
Speaker 6: you so much for joining us. Thank you the great,
50:08
Speaker 6: the legendary Maderi dixit here, director Siris Trvenni an actor
50:14
Speaker 6: Darna Dorga. Thank you all for joining us today. Here's
50:17
Speaker 6: the song Ye Gessie rot.
50:20
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50:34
Speaker 2: Rot dam.
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Speaker 8: Bye dely gimoesome.
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Speaker 23: Curdi couty.
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Speaker 10: Hush coming bye he.
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Speaker 26: Col hto sackc.
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Speaker 23: How jiten the ruta.
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Speaker 10: Coture and.
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Speaker 8: Has am came on?
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Speaker 13: Corb med and allmaca say see the body Cuba and stodys.
53:02
Speaker 6: The song is called Yeah Gussie Rod. It's from the
53:05
Speaker 6: mob a Hen soundtrack. The film is out now on Netflix.
53:10
Speaker 6: And yeah, how about that. I got a great conversation
53:14
Speaker 6: there with Darna Doorga s Restvenni and of course the
53:19
Speaker 6: legend Madrii Dixit. Great conversation there, and this song right
53:26
Speaker 6: here is called Duck Duck reloaded. And after this song,
53:30
Speaker 6: I'll be back with my closing remarks on the show.
53:33
Speaker 5: Can't wait.
53:41
Speaker 8: Many Bunny.
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Speaker 16: Bernie Grando has not gradass.
54:38
Speaker 5: Lichy he calical elected Perry Sarah as all the focused
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Speaker 5: on child.
54:46
Speaker 21: Joy hid the name me lady Nay not banda Luc
54:53
Speaker 21: Curry Curry.
54:56
Speaker 8: But then the berry Berry.
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Speaker 23: One, he's not.
55:38
Speaker 6: Dock reloaded. It's from the mob Hen' soundtrack. And I've
55:43
Speaker 6: played all the major songs, actually all the songs in
55:45
Speaker 6: the soundtrack today and there you go, folks. Episode five
55:51
Speaker 6: hundred and fifty in the bag. And I started the
55:54
Speaker 6: bridge because nobody was giving South Asian music and culture
55:58
Speaker 6: the room it deserved. I'll tell you what I never
56:01
Speaker 6: expected five hundred and fifty episodes in was to be
56:05
Speaker 6: sitting across from Madori Dixit, the director who built her
56:10
Speaker 6: latest character and the co star who held the frame
56:14
Speaker 6: right next to her, all three of them in one hour,
56:18
Speaker 6: all my time in this business. And I'll tell you
56:21
Speaker 6: something I've learned. A great performance is never one person.
56:26
Speaker 6: The audience sees the actor, the audience credits the actor,
56:31
Speaker 6: but three rooms had to come together for that performance
56:34
Speaker 6: to exist. The actor's room, the director's room, and the
56:38
Speaker 6: ensembles room. Today I had all three sitting across from me.
56:43
Speaker 6: Madori Dixit becomes characters. I said that before this interview,
56:48
Speaker 6: and I'll say it again. What I learned today is
56:51
Speaker 6: that she becomes them because somebody else builds the room
56:55
Speaker 6: she can become inside. So Reese Trauveni is that somebody.
57:00
Speaker 6: Most directors borrow an actor's legend, the good ones build
57:04
Speaker 6: them a new place to live in. Trevenni built madri
57:07
Speaker 6: a room she's never lived in before, and Darna Dorga
57:11
Speaker 6: opposite a legend in the same frame. In every scene
57:16
Speaker 6: that matters didn't take for Madrii's light. She brought her own.
57:21
Speaker 6: That's what ma Behen is, That's what every great film is.
57:25
Speaker 6: When you look closely enough, the actor becomes the director builds,
57:29
Speaker 6: the ensemble holds on the five hundred and fiftieth episode
57:34
Speaker 6: of the show, I got to honor all three. Go
57:37
Speaker 6: see the film Madrii Dixit, Srees Trevenni Dharna Durga. They
57:43
Speaker 6: made something worth your evening. I'll see tomorrow.
57:46
Speaker 4: Everybody get Russians on the headisis, he'll mill to give
57:53
Speaker 4: me hellage.
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Speaker 10: See teka mat it's it all.
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Speaker 4: Guess jacket security your poo, okay mac securing the looming me.
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Speaker 10: Then Jagati securly.
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Speaker 4: Yellowy had to get ja Ja saw heribors Pravati.
58:27
Speaker 10: Yes of the loves, has son.
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Speaker 4: Amara talk Abash's soy.
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Speaker 5: S li.
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Speaker 4: Yahn the bear she had, Yes, it's musty da Janaka.
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Speaker 10: To fly. Oh God, you know I got this Ya.
59:02
Speaker 4: Gandhi had to call she's a kid, and then he
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Speaker 4: called the bye. I called my job birdym in the bandy.
59:13
Speaker 4: I'm sad her bady hit and I talk Gardy coming
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Speaker 4: to him. Nay say, oh, godd had a clean her child,
59:30
Speaker 4: Yah mayakaki ya kadi.
59:36
Speaker 10: And the ardy Chad your co he from or Suona
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Speaker 10: chin from the head. I got a cold guy who said,
59:49
Speaker 10: dun I got a sort. I had no suppose you
59:55
Speaker 10: got the job. She had aha, she don't got a man.
1:00:02
Speaker 10: You had the very telling. The jelly got to put
1:00:07
Speaker 10: Shani Huggy shiad Domia
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Speaker 4: Hugi shid go Honey, The Missing Hugy Shire