00:30Nothing, it's been a very, very long wait to put this film out there and we've been traveling the world and we have screened across the world and it has been on Letterboxd and finally it's coming home to Mumbai.
00:51It's a homecoming, it's a film about the city, it's about Mumbai and it's been long in waiting so I'm very glad, I'm so happy.
01:02Next up, the man who carries the soul of the film with quiet intensity and such a flair, the lead of Kennedy, Rahul Bhatt.
01:16Sunny and Rahul, I want to hear your voices. Just one quick line, what is in your heart, what's in your mind?
01:24I think that the Kala Ghoda festival is so great, the energy and the energy of Kennedy's trailer is launching, it's not a good thing.
01:33Sunny.
01:35First of all, thank you so much for having us here. This is an amazing turnout so you guys are absolutely amazing. This film has traveled the world but where it deserves to be is where we are right now, right here at home in Mumbai.
01:51So thank you so much and I hope you guys show the film a lot of love.
01:56You are the first audience to see the trailer.
01:58Yes indeed, you are the first audience to see the trailer and I think that's a mark of honor.
02:04We are going to dive a little bit about this world. I was very intrigued and very interesting.
02:10If it was on OTT tonight, I would have watched it.
02:14But Alura, Kennedy feels like a film that's born from rage, from exhaustion, from…
02:22Everything.
02:23Tell us more about it.
02:25Where did this film start?
02:27I think this character has been with me for a very long time and I have tried to…
02:33I borrowed him from Sudhir Mishra.
02:36But it was during the lockdown, I was going through a lot. My daughter had moved out and listening to Tchaikovsky, full volume, alone in the lockdown, with a bottle of whiskey sitting on the table with empty papers in front of me and I just started writing.
02:57This is one of those films that poured out in a night.
03:01Did you hear that? Is he loud and audible? Is Anurag audible at the back? The back row, can you hear him?
03:08Did you hear that he penned this film in one night in the pandemic?
03:12It was everything that was happening around us and it was bothering me.
03:18I just turned it into a French comic book, Jack Tardy inspired, noir popular, whatever you may call it.
03:29Absolutely, absolutely. And we completely see the personal…
03:32Rahul La.
03:34Kennedy is a man that barely exists.
03:37He barely talks, right?
03:39He's pretty much on the fringes.
03:41Did emotionally heavy character…
03:44How did you tell your character?
03:46I asked him to tell him how to do this.
03:56So he said, I don't know.
03:58And then I… basically… he said that…
04:04First he said you have to lose weight.
04:07Then I came to him after two weeks or three weeks of running that I have lost five, six kilos.
04:13When I met him then he said, no, no, no, actually I was wrong. You have to put on weight.
04:17Basically, I put on 25 kgs for this film and six, seven months of prep.
04:24Finally, one day I sent him a photo of mine and he called me and he said, oh, that's the Kennedy's.
04:30That was it.
04:32Wow.
04:33Do these characters…
04:34Do impact as human beings.
04:36Any character Anurag writes or the films that he writes himself and directs…
04:40I'm sure all the actors get affected.
04:42That's for sure.
04:44Yes.
04:45It's travelled around the world and the homecoming here is on Z5.
04:53So on 28th Feb guys, please be there on Z5. Watch it. Give it a lot of love. And thank you again for being here.
05:01That was one of the most unique things where, you know, for the first time we are telling bored people to wear masks.
05:06And they're like, but COVID is over. So that was, yes. Rest, I think the other part is… 85-90% of the script is still the film.
05:15Otherwise most of them start getting improvised as we go closer to the shoot. This one is just what he wrote. So that's the movie.
05:24I ended in Mumbai back in 33-34 years back. I was in awe of this city and I've literally walked the length and breadth of the city.
05:33And with every Mumbai film that I do, I explore a different part of Mumbai. So I'd never repeat the places. And there's a lot left unexplored yet.
05:43But Mumbai has everything. It's a melting pot. People come here with lots of dreams. And literally it was a city of dreams. And every culture, every food, everything you will find in Mumbai.
05:57But in Mumbai also is… Since from 93 to now, I've seen the city change. And I've seen it literally change. And this film growing vertically.
06:10And that becomes a very isolating experience also, especially in the lockdown. It was very isolating for a lot of people.
06:17And in a city which is growing vertically, it's even more isolating. People live in flats. Thousands of people live in a building.
06:26But they don't know who their neighbour is. So I'm saying, listen, it's one thing about Mumbai which is also fascinating and scary at the same time.
06:38Like growing up, we always knew everybody in town.
06:41Absolutely.
06:42I know Mumbai by smell. Like he can be in any area and he can tell you this is this. So he knows Mumbai that way.
06:50But I know the urban isolation and I think all of us feel it in the lives we lead in this city.
06:58I wouldn't be a part of it. And if it wasn't for Anurag sir, obviously I wouldn't be a part of it. So that is the biggest association between all of them.
07:08And I think that this really is a place that is truly magical. The amount of opportunity, the amount of love in this city, how different it is from every other city here in India is absolutely amazing.
07:24And I always say that I would never want to live anywhere else. My husband thinks I'm crazy but I'm not. And I don't think I would ever want to leave. So thank you Mumbai.
07:36Shout out for Mumbai. Kalagora, we wouldn't do it anywhere else if it wasn't for Bombay.
07:42Rahul, something for you, you know. What do you want to feel about them?
07:47Look, every actor says that my film is different.
07:52If anyone has asked any actor, they will say that it's mind blowing, it's good.
07:57Look. I feel like this is the answer to the audience.
08:01Let them go and see.
08:04And I must say that this is the place where we shoot this film.
08:12Almost in South Mumbai.
08:15And I am happy that we are launching this trailer today.
08:21And I believe that it's good.
08:24A round of applause on that note.
08:27In this city and buildings, there is a shoot called Kennedy.
08:32So don't miss it guys.
08:34We'll take a photo op.
08:35We'll take a picture with you.
08:37So don't move anywhere.
08:38We'll turn around and take a picture with you.
08:39We'll take a picture with you.
08:40Please do that before you leave the grounds today.
08:43You get a big thumbs up from all of us.
08:45So make sure it's there.
08:47Lovely, lovely.
08:48I think we'll just come forward for a picture.
08:54You see.
08:57I will take the pictures from all around the actors.
08:59You have theUNA.
09:00I have a桜.
09:02About the news, I've laid off for you.
09:04You have everything here.
09:06You come forward with me.
09:08You're talking.
09:09You open and you'll get it.
09:10You're talking about me.
09:12You're tangent about me on the оружI Found line.
09:15Cause in the dossier, it's calledmystrap.
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