This Sunday, catch the Director-actor duo of 'Namesake', Tabu and Mira Nair along with the world famous choreographer Farah Khan on March 18th at 9 p.m.
exclusively on 'Koffee with Karan' on Star One and Star World
Excerpts from the interview:
Karan: You have been in this industry for how long Tabu?
Tabu: 18 or 19 years
Karan: Any regrets ?
Tabu: Lots .. but it will really take a while if I start discussing it ..
Karan: Professionally or personally
Tabu: Ahh ...personally more I think .. but, actually having said that I wouldn''t look at them as regrets .. and more as a learning experience .. but, I wish I hadn't
met a few people I had met .. which I would not want to name ...
Karan: When you did Namesake .. while you were filming it ..with all the appreciation you received .. you traveled to all the films festivals ..is there any
kind of a Hollywood aspiration?
Tabu: I know I am not going to get the kind of roles that Julia Roberts gets ..I feel we should get real about what we can do there and what we definitely
cannot.. how much we can reach and how much we can not .. once you have that clear in your head ..and I have that very clear in my head .. see Namesake is
about Indians, it is about an Indian family, though it's an out and out American film, but it is about Indians and you cannot cast an American, but not many American films
are made that are about Indians or have important characters who are Indians or Asians.
Mira: I mean .. the world is changing so much ..audiences are going for multiplicity ..
Karan: Do you some times feel that you know .. you make these international films .. but you are not doing anything for India? Do you ever feel the need to
come back and do a full Hindi picture ?
Mira: You know, my theory is .. I don't do anything that any one else does better than me ..laughs .. and you do it better than me .. So, I mean I am not here to
imitate ..
Karan: When you hear of other film makers like Gurinder Chadha, or Deepa Mehta and the work they do .. do you feel happy to be put in that bracket or
offended?
Mira: Well, I had to introduce Gurinder once and I said welcome to Charlie's Angels of Punjabis, because we are weirdly enough three Punjabi ladies .. I love certain
aspects of their work ..I love the sass, the humor of Gurinder''s especially, and I think the last film that Deepa made -Water was certainly her best film, but you know
sometimes we are just lumped together because we are three brown women who make International films. I don't think our work is that related to each other
Courtesy: IndiaFM.com