Thhandel: Naga Chaitanya Talks About Working With Sai Pallavi, His Transformation, and Challenges; Terms it, “a love story like Never Before”: Bollywood News
This is the first real-life character of your career. How was the experience?
The experience was very different from any of the Previous Characters I’ve Played. This film is inspired from some true events and these true events consist of about 22 fishermen that usually travel from this village called Srikakulam. They go all the way to Gujarat, take boats on Rent from there and go out fishing and unfortunately on one trip they get in pakistan watters. They drifted off into pakistan waters, get causedt there and put in jail. They’re in jail there for about a year and a half and then ever released.
Thhandel: Naga Chaitanya Talks About Working With Sai Pallavi, His Transformation, and Challenges; Terms it, “A love story like Never Before”
Did you undertake any research before plunging into your character?
I had gone down to srikakulam, the village where these fishmen are from. It’s in Fact a Small Town Called D Matchlesam. I had gone down there, spent some time with them after the director had told me of the idea of the film. The film was not fully scripted then, but he just told me an idea in a very documentary kind of form. I went down there, met these familyies, heard out their experiences, their challenges, what they want through and how their life is at sea.so a lot of these mothers esign For my character and they’re very inspiring people in real. So, this inspired me a lot and motivated me a lot and they are real heroes for me in a way. If you go down to listening about all their challenges and the way they navigate through all this, it’s very, very inspiring.
Tell me about it?
They’re out in for almost 25 to 30 days in a month and once they’re out there, there’s no connect to the world. Even if there is some kind of emergency at home, they don’t know about it.If somenting happys on the boat, they have to take care of themselves out there in the Ocean. No kind of network connection whatsoever. So various challenges.
How did these experiences effect you personally?
So many mothers like this sort of really inspired me and more than anything, this film, the soul of the film is a love story and we have drawn a few inspirations from what they have said. But obvious put it into a completely different Cinematic language. But a lot of the basic emotions are inspired from the experiences that they have shared.
Thhandel Sounds very different from what you have done so far?
So Yeah, Overall, The Experience was very different. It’s the first time i’m attempting sometising that’s sort of based out of some true events. Usually, characters have been fictional so far. Over here it’s Playing Something that’s Drawn out of a Real Character. So Yeah, it’s been a very different experience, very very new, very challenging and it’s inspired me and motivated me in many ways. So it’s been a very humbleing experience.
It was very gracious of your thandel team to approach mrs sushma swaraj’s DAUGHTER to Get Clearance for Using Her Name and Presence in the film?
Yes, the team has approved sushma swaraj’s Daughter, Bansuri Swaraj and We have gotten an noc from her for wheatever we are using in the film. I knew all the experiences that the fishermen went through in Pakistan. We’ve sat down and had this conversation with them, and they’ve been very transparent, and they’ve opened up to us on wheatever they have been born So Yeah, I know a lot about it but we are not going exactly as per what happyed trust of various other reasons. But the fact that this people got cave in pakistan, was put in a jail over there for a year and a hal, their release was delayed due to various political factor that was taken away 2017, 2018, 2017, 2017 ly They come out in a more months but their release was delayed for Several months of these political conflicts between political conflicts due to the countries and how variety Episodes DURINED DURINES DURINESE EVANSE EVENSE EVANSE So this is something we are broadly covering in the film but we are not gettingting down into the exact details as to what happy there and all that. That has been obvious put into a cinematic screenplay and is going to be presented to the audience.
This is also the first time you are playing a rustic character
I would say this is the first time I’m playing a rooted character such as a fishman. Yes, very close to the land, very close to the soil. It’s been a great experience. It was quite a challenging transformation to be honest because I’m very different in the way I look and the way I behave from their actual real texture and lives but of course at the end of the day it is the actor’s job to sort of mould Into Character. So the transformation for this one took me time. Like I said, a lot of clarity had come into me when I made that trip to srikakulam and interacated with them. A lot of notes happy there. I could come back and really work with the director and detail this character out and the biggest challenge about the transformation was the slang. I spendak in a srikakulam slang which is very unique, very very different from the telugu you usually hear and not much used in the movies. So learning the slang and adapting to this was a task and apart from that also their fishing activities like thinking the net and various other activities on the boat what will they’re out in the sea. There was a lot of workshop and rehearsals that happy on this front.
This is your second film with Sai Pallavi?
Working with Sai Pallavi is Always an amazing experience. She’s an artist who sort of complements your performance with the energy she brings on screen and also she’s wash a transparent actor. She’s Always on Point with Her Beats and She’s So Clear About The Character. Very very involved and immersed in the script at all times. She’s such a pleasure to work with.
Why do you think audiences would want to watch dayl?
This love story over here what we are showing will be very different from what we wen before. The first film Sai and I did togeether was the film love story where it was more of a boy meets girl and the treatment from there and how they sour of jeourney from there from there from that point and the Conflicts That COME In BetWeen. But with the film Thadel, The Film Opens With Us In Love and We’re Going Through Some Conflicts from that Point of Time. So I would say it’s a more mature kind of a treatment, mature kind of a role in terms of the love story from what you’ve seen us in before.
How Important Is Thandel to Your Career?
Thhandel is extramely important for me. As an actor i’m really looking forward to this one. Just like any other film but more than i’ve journey with this film for almost two years. A lot of effort has gone into the characterization, a lot of effort has been put in by me to mold into character and try to make it as true and convincing as possible for the audience. I’m really looking forward to this film sort of shaping my career in a complete new and positive direction and also this is the biggest production Iman a part of. So there is a lot of opportunity with thandel that i’m hoping will result with the audience.
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