00:00 I've long been a huge fan of the action genre and I wanted to infuse it with
00:07 some culture and social resonance. In this city the rich don't see us as
00:12 people. This is a revenge film about faith. I felt a huge responsibility to
00:22 the mythology that this story is based on. My mother used to tell me a story of
00:27 the protector of the people, the white monkey.
00:32 Hanuman is a god in the Hindu mythology that is half monkey half human. He
00:40 symbolizes strength, courage, kindness. There was a time when I really ran away
00:47 from my cultural heritage and then Danny Boyle took me to Mumbai for the first
00:53 time and changed my life. So in the inception of the script I was like you
00:57 know what sometimes to break the mold you've got to be in it. So I doubled down
01:02 and pulled from all of these beautiful textural philosophical parts of the
01:07 culture that I even didn't know.
01:10 Music is so big in the Indian culture. I was like wouldn't it be amazing to do
01:18 training sequence with this huge Indian classical maestro Zakir Hussain. He
01:23 toured with Ravi Shankar, The Beatles. He came down and played the tabla
01:27 ferociously for three days and we have this wordless training sequence where he
01:32 speaks with me through his instrument. You need to fight for your mother, for all of us.
01:39 The film is an ode to my parents and my ancestry. At its core it's about
01:47 the earth, it's about roots and how far someone will go to avenge someone he
01:52 loves. Do you remember me?
01:55 Mario.
01:57 Music.
02:04 you
02:07 you
02:09 you
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