Vicky C's introduction to the podcasting World say what intense energy feel engineering bro the ability to reverse engineer is my biggest gift of Engineers I'm sure you had some kind of a similar experience in being a part of social Gatherings film industry 101 silent masculine per imagine like there's a weight of 2,000 kilos on your shoulder men in general are conditioned to kind of suppress Fe feelings and stories ons star of the show Vicky film indry pre engineering colle has arrived he's the
next big thing in the Hindi film industry but he has arrived series theme stories ons Legend Sol legendary this is Vicky Kell on TRS like never [Music] before M thank you yeah even I'm very happy to be here and also just to tell you because and it's more interactive I don't know why I feel like genuinely information and just it's not just information but I'm very happy to be here no we're happy to talk to you and personally I'm happy to talk to you yeah I know I don't know yeah I think somethin
g that we go through it's just very trauma no I don't I I wouldn't call it trauma because actually for me those four years in engineering have been like the most beautiful four years of my life yeah yeah seriously like I got some like lifelong friends who are friends still dat I passed out in 2009 so like those friendships like those 20 from the que of admission and you experience like I became a boy to a man during my engineering days and that I feel that is one thing that happens to all engine
ering students yeah I feel it it turns you into an adult engineering Electronics first year so it was mechanics and CP back don't get like so when I got two were like and you get a another chance to kind of crack that exam so they were all cool and we I was cool it was a very happy life going on till my who used to work for LT at that time in Delhi he came in for a visit and he's like [Music] engineering also you said mechanics first first semester or first [Music] at that point I don't know dev
elopment moment honestly actually of then in the next s by the time I was actually prepped and ready to give the exam on Mech last moment I got a news that because you and me are talking with and you get five chances totally total five chances and the fifth chance is called the Golden k then you get a they in Boston I don't know if it's relevant for other fields as well because but engineering there are lot of like suppressed artists yeah cultural you see like dance skits and plays and painting
and like anything like it's just the cultural festivals of engineering colleges are really topnotch I'm getting Goosebumps seriously yeah it's it's it's a very interesting environment I'll say that character development I remember was having a very tough time I don't know how your professors were but I don't know if you wentc which I find weird I know I was very surprised to know like you said mechanics mechanic butc electronics and telecomunications you find it like don't know yeah even I don't
know yeah but anyway extc is some of the subjects are very difficult EDC bjts F but actually I didn't mind DTC at all because circuit everything I was I was like it didn't like I was not very scared I had gotten 89 on 100 really P I had scored that's what BW is it's remembering a lot of formula and visualizing yeah that's why you're a good actor I don't know maybe okay wow I'm L talking about B to okay I didn't think I'm going to come here and talk about B so much I'm also actually enjoying ITP
mechanics same and please chip in to give your film World experience also and then also M uh I had a friend explain stuff to me but to learn things fast and that same thing I've applied in business I've applied at age 30 this is why I wanted to talk to you since a very long time you're one of the legends of engineering colleges in Mumbai engineering apply yeah actually I'm sure I'll say in a very like not exactly like a philosophical way but I would say J I'll give you my dad's example he Punja
b University and he wanted to become an English Professor ma in English literature ba in English literature and he became an action director in films in m long journey blah blah blah but I always used to ask him and in college only I had decided in my second year third year actually acting lifelong I'm not going to pursue postgrad because at that time all my friends were like which is the requirement if you want to give that exam and do postgrad outside India it takes a lot mentally to not do it
a lot a lot really a lot because uh I used to ask him so he used to tell me graduation but you have to do it you have to give in your best and it's very sub but genuinely those four years even when I knew that this is not what I'm going to pursue but at that time building relationships uh camaraderie with your friends uh giving everything to those subjects and those exams and whatever that was cultural festivals everything that those four years had to offer to me I gave him gave it my all and t
hat habit of giving it my all is still relevant when I have to like because everything I do is a project I take up a role is a project I take up and okay this is my project you know because I won't get another chance so every film every role is a golden K so that so [Music] second thir I don't know okay maybe there was a and I used to motivate myself for studying for the exam with the fear I felt while checking the previous s's results I don't want to put myself in a position to have that level
of fear in my heart it's I'll do that right I don't ever want to not be able to bet on my abilities correct no I feel I feel always that little fear element that always brings the best out of you if you treat it as a motivational Factor if you're going to be really like indulging in that in a m in a way that it it breaks your confidence it has to be a stepping stone MH stepping stone that's actually a very good Advantage you have you know that insecurity that that D provides you that I feel is a
great stepping stone for you to achieve something which you feel you might not be able to okay uh bro you're very easy to talk to engineering bro because we understand each other's a little bit I don't know maybe maybe it's that clity think but I also want to genu tell I know I've seen some Snippets of uh this show where you've invited like some really like experienced people from the Armed Forces yeah yeah and uh I think generally the military collectively I'll be very honest with you my I'm g
oing to be very transparent here uh just let me finish the full thing that I'm saying uh military generals they used to get pissed off with military based films they to feel it's not accurate uh but Sam it's very famous phot I was very happy like I literally clapped when I saw that film and I know that that's how at least the military audiences are looking looking at the film just know that it's it's already it's already a great thing while while I know that the military is hesitant about it but
generally everyone is very excited no but it's it's it's not news for me because uh when I was doing U or now when I'm doing Sam bahadur and that film is coming out I actually had a lot of like heart-to- heart conversations with them and what they think of Cinema and what they think of Hindi films depiction and everything and of course like they have also said this so but like Jo surface level I've seen like them being very uh sensitive about the uniforms the medals the badges and everything an
d I realized because there's a technicaly term for that where where it's called like it's a it's a punishment that they get and it's a hardcore punishment that they get during their training days uh if slightly by even Ain they get a punishment meds are fully off and everything they're bound to feel hurt about that you know so especially I have to give it to her that she has been like a hawk on set when it came to the color of the uniforms the details of it because it's like profession I don't k
now if I'm saying too much but through this FM no of course yeah like not not in a preachy way but I genuinely feel where I get to be part of films where it's about the heroes that have existed in our motherland not necessarily through education through books or whatever or maybe they are just like not a detailed study in our history books but they were just a mere mention but if we get to study them it's just nice to know that you know people like like Sam manika or Sardar udam they've really e
xisted they were here and and they did something for the country for and if they resonate to it it's it's just I I just feel somewhere in the corner of my heart I feel good about through my work I could do something which had a certain deeper meaning to it I loved Sardar film I think honest film like from uh from sujit da like the more I interacted with him I got to know like how he literally is like a bhagat Singh Fanboy and uh and it's a story that he he's lived with for many many years and I
just was so like fortunate and through his eyes and his vision the way he saw the story uh I thought there was a lot of Purity in which he he said that story uh because he kept telling me my my uh reason for which I want to make this and why I get inspired by bhat Singh G and udham sing G is because their state of mind is what inspires me so that is what we kept trying to kind of get dejected acting I remember you just sitting you're sitting like that in one scene that's the scene that stayed wi
th me I don't know if you remember what I'm talking about early early it was one of the early portions and my thought was to be able to act with that kind of pain [Music] and but a lot of guys connect with you because silent male I don't know if you got what I'm saying I got what you're saying but I've never seen like obviously I can't can't objectively see my performances like that maybe I'm giving you engineering bro perspective don't don't mind the sounding good to me uh but silent masculine
pain I think that's why you have both a female and male fan following honestly okay okay but I think I think in Sardar udham if I just pick that example out all that I was thinking thinking where like you know at the later stages when I'm like late 30s 40 and when I'm like in London and roaming around I the one demarcation like when I have to I feel ke I'm overthinking a character or I'm making like too too many ideas and theories in my head I like to simplify things and then I just put like one
word like I just put like one block idea so I just I remember during saram because it was such a silent kind of a portrayal with not many dialogues or first 20 minutes of the film you don't even hear him so I just said J Tu uh he's not done what he's he's wanting to do imagine like there's a weight of 2,000 kilos on your shoulder you're carrying a lot of weight and I said let me just start with just literally feeling a physical weight I know it's more like a mental weight but let me just do eve
rything where I feel like a physical weight on me and when I play the 19yearold just get that weight off that's that's how I kind of just in my head just simplif ifed in terms ofad and that's maybe that's where it started from in a physical form and then obviously in the mental form of men in general are conditioned to kind of suppress feelings and and I don't know I can I can't dig deep in that because of sub how it lands on a viewer is very subjective who should we get next on the show what su
bject should we talk about next I'm assuming it's something similar I know it's something similar in the film World concept I guess of course of course at least I'm noticing J Millennials they feel we should have been taught even more about India's history I feel automatically maybe the film world might go on a bit of a historical tangent audience demand that's why we've gone on a full historical usually what happens is at least I don't know what the textbooks are saying today I don't know how t
hey are like syllabus wise [Music] but like I said in terms of incidents just to cover a wider because history are but like like the thing that hit hit me the most when we were shooting Sardar was but we didn't really feel it we didn't really we don't know what it really feels to lose that many lives on a single plot of land in one night so impact realiz is true true kind of understanding of History also the way that scene was sh yeah as an Indian it's not it's probably one of the most difficult
scenes to watch that I've ever watched in my life it was one of the probably the most difficult scene to perform as well it was uh because yeah yeah it was yeah U it was it was because of course I was prepared for a few things but there was certain things which I was not prepared for on a deeper level because sequence like doing it for like 20 days and uh dummies it will be real bodies and like there was a three camera setup out of which one camera I never knew where it was uh out of the two ca
meras like they would they would light the the whole whole ground and then there was no like a next shot we have this much time so you rest it out whatever once we are on the ground we are on the ground and it's just like changing angles and whatever depict quite graphically in that film and I think it's actually the highlight of that fil the way that they've done Justice to that incident uh and the second aspect is what you're talking about right now and that that whole stretch is very very int
ense to watch as a view please continue by so um when we started shooting obviously there won't be any dummy bodies there'll be real bodies and I don't want you to rehearse how to pick them up I want to see a 19-year-old not knowing how to pick them up so struggling how to pick them up and then getting tired and whatever so we kept shooting like I said for like 20 nights where there was the ground then taking to the hospital the streets the houses everything put together uh the night was divided
into six stages of because there was a lot of blood coming on me and everything so of like technicality wise continuity had to be maintained and all of that but uh let's just say a b CDE e f whatever so what stages may like we kept shooting we kept shooting and in fact all the people who were lying down there they were also told ke I can come and pick up anybody so you have to lie down and only brief that was given to me was you genuinely search for people consider them injured and you would tr
y to save them that was the brief given to me and the camera will follow you don't worry about anything and it became like a stage for me and uh what what I was not prepared for after doing it like uh many times was that somewhere in the middle it just hit me that there was a boy actually doing that one night and that hit me very strongly like I could not sleep after going back home and I would sit with Su also and I would be like and and he's like I understand and but you know U but we kept doi
ng that we kept doing that because we felt and everybody like that night like over there we shot init and the people were very Cooperative because they knew what we were trying to create recreate um so they were very supportive and it took a lot like a lot of team effort but just as an actor it it was like it just grounded me a lot like I thought that that happened with me when I was shooting masan and prepping for masan when I would spend time at the G masan Gart and you know see dead bodies ge
tting burned but this was uh a little I don't know strangely deeper than that and deep yeah yeah because uh this was this was there was there was Agony there was pain there was uh trauma there was and and I had to do that all feeling like a child like you know because in the film also you see him like before that incident not really really being very like revti about Freedom or whatever he was just a kid living his life and uh you know but that night changed Sardar udham Singh G and that night k
ind of the depiction of that night kind of just like made me realize straightforward I feel you're a very blessed man to be able to play Such characters I agree I feel that so I feel that really your from the outside s or S bad just I feel you're in many ways a chosen one I'm not I'm I'm genuinely saying what it feels like from the outside this people are rallying behind you also I don't know but I do feel like I do feel blessed to get these opportunities because yeah like we discussed because w
e've discussed engineering days engineering actor 2009 I'm like okay let me just do an acting course and that to was like you know I had I said to be very honest because that time was also not the time like we have today where actors even if you do a a film and if your work is good you will be like there'll be curiosity around you whatever you struggle and then you give auditions and blah blah blah theater and everything for these legendary roles and characters it's it really feels like a blessi
ng because saram sing bahad as thaty rosp and you feel like you there's a lot of gratitude that you feel un God is really taking care of you um universe do you agree of course there's hard work bis Conant I'm a strong very strong believer in Destiny and Karma I'm a super strong believer in that like uh and it's like immovable U like it at times when I especially at times when I don't get what I really want to I really have now learned to take it as a blessing because I literally have now when I
look back and I feel but then now I see and I'm [Music] like so now I am really like I know that that if your hard work is there but I I just live with that faith that there's a stronger uh entity or force or whatever taking care of you okay um like you were one of the people I wanted on the show for very long sh engineering College connect actually mostly because of that also because of your career but I knew how I'll be able to talk to you uh I think this point of the show I'm trying to get to
learn what's made you okay at this point so please take your time with it this is okay but take your time okay Vicky leing action [Music] director see the thing is he has uh instilled this faith in me of not having a safety net where what I would be seeing otherwise engineering especially TCS uh no it wasn't TCS it was uh at that time it was called PNE computers but now I think it's cap Germany oh this theyve taken it over but uh he said like know that you don't have a backup sometimes that hel
ps but be the man that gives you the energy uh there is nothing else there is nothing else and uh sometimes that gives you that gives you that little Edge that little one extra percent Edge which needs where uh where it's just that Supernatural force that comes into you that key I have to do it I don't have anything else so I think is that coming from not having a safety net that helps helps me same personally like I said it's all subjective it's all very very subjective depending on of your con
ditions and where you are what you're doing your state of mind and everything but that not having a safety net always always makes me do something that I feel I don't have it in me whereas when I have that safety net I feel I wouldn't push myself to that that extent um it applies to you and I understand what you're saying and I feel it's important to not have a plan B at 22 I agree balls to the wall mentality okay Vicky C obviously it's the context here is masan at age 24 25 so I'm also asking t
he boy Vick Sam Sam bahad really it's only because of uh the man he was uh it's not a fictional character so uh there's a glory you have to live up to uh you can't you you just didn't have even one degree of scope to just fool around or miss the mark because whenever I would interact with the Indian army they would be very encouraging they would give a a lot of love a lot of faith but they would always end it with saying you better do a good job he's our best man so that would always like kind o
f like you know scare me a little bit so I think uh was Sam bahad the kind of prep that got involved and uh every day on set the constant reminder that just remember whom you're playing just remember the man whom you're playing uh and yeah so I would I would to answer this question it is definitely Sam bahadur okay yeah do you feel on some level their legacy or their soul is present on set I felt that during Sam bahadur and and I'm so like it's so strange you ask me this question because we me a
nd Magna have said this to just each other not even like announcing it to a team we would just sit on the side and sometimes Magna would say that you know I feel him and sometimes I would say that me not I feel him uh really because this film during the shoot or just the existence of this film till like now when it's releasing and everything so many things that that have gone against the film like just making of the film so many things sometimes location sometimes Logistics sometimes this someti
mes that everything that we ended up doing in the way we ended up doing was just the best thing that could have happened to the film and every time something like this would happen we would feel y like we were not aiming for this we were we actually had a different plan but we ended up doing what was literally the best thing for the film and from the smallest to the biggest things but every time you would be like M Sam is here so uh so we would we would feel that many times and I genuinely genui
nely feel that like uh very deeply like like you know he's he's watching it life is regarding my work or anything or relationship or anything granted because now you have the opportunity to take things [Music] granted like especially by God's grace you are in that position you can choose what you want to do and what you don't want to do this is the time when you don't want to take things for granted uh you know and I think you start slipping and because you don't fall you start slipping when you
take things for granted and before you realize it's like a little late so it's this is the phase where my my biggest fear is that anything that is because you have a team working with you uh anything that you would want to kind of prep for a role or do something or it's there it's available everything is available right now so when things are available is when you start taking the basics for granted so back of the mind when you're hitting the bed at the end of the day you just have to be prepar
ed granted you know um keep that hunger alive yeah that's Rocky 3 yeah correct exactly exactly it's that then he has to kind of start from scratch start from scratch so yeah that rock five parts at one originally five for me three was the most important Champion yeah it's that like they say Champion B is easier than Champion so it's that that shift that transition is where you start taking things for granted it's it's when every day at work or every day at wherever you are whatever you do is the
first day at job is when you'll be like and I the stage you are my job is to observe you guys mostly I don't want to fade away also me humility I guess so but I got to know you more um okay okay int energy you're a very intense guy now you're not energy speaks before person speaks also not just the Beards that's what I feel I can never I can never actually code why I have gotten success uh because sometimes I feel it's also sure it's your hard work it's what You' have put into the job and you k
now you have to give in that much to get out of [Music] it I don't know it's just like I feel uh when you say success My Success uh it's it's got to of course it's got to do with me but it's got to a lot to do with the people who put faith in me people who put uh kind of like don't te that selfmade man I don't think you are ever a selfmade man you know you know especially when you're an actor you need a lot of good technicians around you you need a solid script you need a great director to you n
eed an audience you know a of course because you are the subject of that success or can't take like just you know it's given to you and then it's taken from you also okay fop FM more than K [Music] yeah in terms of the kind of next opportunity you'll get build Faith with the audience credibility build and of course I'm not saying it's all and it's a little also what hurts you is that and you know it wasn't a profitable situation for the producer also which you would always want that to happen as
an actor as a part of that film so okay um for this whole podcast engineering oriented the ability to reverse engineer is my biggest gift of engineering engineering [Laughter] drawingart okay these are coding nightmares nightmares seriously nightmares anyway film industry I just fil hero and then I'll start a bus random factors I'm sure you had some kind of similar experience in media generally wow take 20 minutes 30 minutes of the answer if you want off take from that school was I was a happie
r person I was not cribbing I was not feeling Monday blues I was not feeling I was like okay this is what I can do for the rest of my life now let's keep evolving in this one thing I had given time and that is something I would say not an advantage not many people have let me make this as an advantage rather than just take it for granted so I was like what advantage can I get give myself time like we discussed many times now judge especially in the beginning especially in the beginning time I go
t the opportunity to assist an on gangur assist that's another story Al together it was like my film school but then what made it more difficult for me in the circle of film industry was and usually the assistant directors who want to be actors cute Pro I actually want to act and I like you know take me seriously as an actor so I broke away from that I was like I was getting more opportunities to assist I don't want to be a director I want to be an actor then I started doing theater AUD I don't
mean physically fitess before you crack the audition you have to crack getting into that room full of people for that audition am I fit for the audition am I fit for the audition yes am I fit for the [Music] audition C polish I would say and it's very subjective to acting schools and it was a great acting school but it's what you take out of it they just give you a glimpse and they probably give you the confidence key you have it in you go for it you know but it's a whole world of it's like a Pa
ndora box of skill set that you have to learn probably on the job also uh but they just give you the they just open the pores [Music] serly pH my new car my new flat my new this and you are traveling in buses and Ras ke by bank account zero what you love [Music] [Music] [Music] doing we started from when I became an actor obviously these the things that you mentioned styling or PR for the first six months when masan came out I did not have a manager so actually genuinely on the basis of audition
Moses Singh was the director he it was his first film it was my first film and literally he selected after auditioning me and that was the first film I shot in 2013 but that film came on late like after masan uh in 2016 was 2015 so 201 but it was like like speci because that was like the first thing I cracked with the audition SEL uh but masan how I got it was n and me we both ads on gangs of basur uh or he wanted to become a director I wanted to become an actor so we were like okay but then no
he was actually making this film with another set of actors fully and he was fully prepped for it actually and he what's happening this is the casting for that film showed me the full dock this is the cast and everything so I don't know what Ro so and now there's a vacancy so we are looking for a new actor so I went in and uh we did two scenes as an audition a to there was a cafeteria scene between me and Shati and the other scene was I did those two scenes casting say say an S say was the prod
ucer nobody called and I was used to I was used to not getting a revert after an audition but then a week later sitting with my family home and not even like mentioning the audition like it never happened like you know it's a friend who's like kind of he's going to reach by the way that's not working but you know but then actually 10 15 minutes B he's like by the way and I'm like what he like haha we were just waiting because like you know there are six producers everybody had to see there's a F
rench producers so the addition tape went to France and blah blah blah the whole process so I was like oh okay then I started getting calls from like anurag sir and gunit Monga and everybody hey we were just waiting for n to call you and give you the news but da d da so that's how I I got masan okay back to the flow chart yeah uh so like like uh was the experienced one you know so or because Rich was also an actor in gangs of so there was just that senior so she was very sweet but I remember but
every script would be based on a up based character up boy her character but let me explore let me wait it out or I think an say Raman R where he said I remember I was at he said screen I think you are not fit for the part that's how he started but I somehow I feel like I should test you and see if you have it in you and it was like a cops role and very like a very dark film and and it was fully opposite from like from who I was I have lived a very protected upbringing family you know no kind o
f no complexities as such simple comp this is something I don't understand about you what you're genuinely a very simple guy they listen to but the characters you play in your performances are very layered and complex I don't know how you are able to do that I don't know man I don't know but uh but yeah but but this there's this like you know he has this hate against his father his upbringing his got so much angst and resentment inside him that he's like he doesn't know when he goes this side of
the line or that side of the line he doesn't know where he is and but he's a cop so um so and I was what 26 at that time so so I was kind of like audition and he said but then he's like no but I saw something in your eyes where I feel I can take you to the character I was like okay and then I did that thing but which till date I feel like that's my worst performance like Raman ragab I feel like like not because as like performance performance but I feel it is not just coste honestly conviction
but some characters require you to live a certain life also that was one of them in fact every five years if I get that opportunity again I'll bring you something else to that role it was just the role was was that kind of Dimension to it uh then of course film the film I don't know how to kind of see came very late into my life you know I'm not a very PR friendly person because go tell the Instagram algorithm that no but but seriously like I understand when you have work and you want to push th
at work ahead I understand that but I know it's a requirement I have a PR team but they have a very difficult time with me because yeah because like they they like come with ideas and I'm like can I give you a PR angle I have a marketing company as well uh so I know what I'm talking about I feel you should do more podcasts in general I've never done podcast no I think I might have done on a smaller scales but this is the first proper one I don't mean you do one every month but at least do one ev
ery year and go on different podcast if you want but uh communicate okay which is all you need for the show for shows like this you're able to explain to an engineering Junior but but like I I I I I suck at marketing I suck at doing PR or whatever like I love it when like a film comes out and work is like doing the talking I love that I find I find confidence in that I feel like a certain strength in that I'm assuming FM sty okay [Music] like R made me a smoker because and I was like while I was
shooting that film I was probably smoking like two packets a day or something because it was just like lumb Lum shs and that's the first time I was smoking I was like sir but but obviously I had to quit like I quit that after the film and uh here drinking when I had for that scene but now it's like very occasionally like like you know those oneoff nights in the year or something very very occasionally but I don't like I don't drink make urban legend fully you say no to alcohol and no I do I do
everything I don't drink like firstly one to drink socializing chitat okay by nice to meet you go home it's like a party it's like an expression of Joy then you know but I can't I I don't understand and I'm not fond like it's not something that stimulates me at all K are holding a drink having a glass or two or something it's not it's not My Vibe at all that's not what I do I don't like to do also so and not like as a discipline it's just not come to me naturally okay Hindi film no not at all th
at's one of the biggest myths biggest myths I'm saying if you want to do quality work work that is like strong where you want like people to reach out to you for work rather than you being there out there of course I'm not saying networking in terms of like the false facade networking like where you feel like just because you're friends just because you are having coffee and chai with them uh and like have being a part of social [Music] Gatherings of course if you've reached out to them in their
offices and met them in their offices and you build that sort of a relationship that listen I want to work with you and this and that then you become friends of course that's a different story altogether but just that so that I'll get to meet that guy and that's how I'll get work never in fact they've judged you in the complete opposite way like you'll and they'll be very nice to you they'll be very nice to you because they're nice people but like like like and I'm sure that's like any other in
dustry but Bollywood when they're like work mode they are work mode yeah of course they have their downtime they will party and they will have like their you know relax dinners and whatever the social Gatherings and everything but when they work mode they are they are like it's a very unemotional side it's a very this thing it's like Strictly Business you're working and we need good actors we need good actors we need good technicians we need good technicians you know it's not necess we not there
to make friends you become friends that's a different story that's great but it's like you need the best person for the job uh there's a lot of money involved there's a lot of reputation involved there's a lot of risk involved you know so so and in fact they'll respect you more if if if you're a great part of the team rather than yeah if you're a great part of the team and you know your job and that happens in all walks of life like you know if if if tomorrow like I happen to meet you at a part
y or whatever we'll be pleasant to each other we'll meet nicely and whatever we'll exchange numbers and that's great when will I have respect for you when I know that boss you're a man of substance you know you know you know what you're talking about you know your job that's when I'll be like okay I take him seriously I respect his Viewpoint I respect you so uh focus on your job focus on your job and in fact I will say that if you if even if you're not friends even if you don't know them and wha
tever if you're constantly working on your job and you're putting it out there and you're trying your best to network like that as a professional they will become your friends they will um I feel your work is your best PR sure I would also maybe I'm saying it from a biased perspective but social media is a great PR tool I'm the most active during like huh I I think you know this all due respect to the digital teams but like because I don't want anybody to sit on my head saying post something you
haven't posted in 5 days because linew between what's real and what's not like uh like for like my my my work is not social media uh of course I want to connect with my audience through social media I want to connect because that's where it's it's me it's not my character it's not my brand sometimes the brand also now because the lines are blurred when you know there's a lot of branding in social media uh but uh personally uh sometimes I need a detox from social media and I do that I don't go o
ff social media whatever but I just stop using it for some time I'll tell you what traditional media houses don't understand what social media it's it's my bread and butter yeah social media changes every six months and honestly soci no it's a super super d super strong medium it is a it's a it's a great medium but I'm saying you need to have a right conversation to have like like and that comes with who I am personally like if you sit with me in a in a room where there no cameras or nothing it'
s it's very easier for me to just sit silent if I don't have anything to talk to you and I will be like that but if I have something to say to you I will say that like when I have something to say on social media I will post like three posts a day M but if I don't have anything to tell you or show you from my life I I don't want like to feel like it's a necessity for me to do that uh that's something where I draw the line just for my own sanity okay it's it's for my peace of mind like nowhere in
in like nowhere I want to feel validated because like through like I don't know how to put it but like um that's the only motivation that I shared something with you guys like I'm not like I think that's correct thinking honestly social media you can take two weeks three weeks off if you want but the content should be Quality quality content yeah um professionally speaking I'm sure film industry 101 flowart on the surface level she's added what kind of clothes should I wear because she's like s
he would be like cut me out like she literally held my hand and pull me back like saying you're not stepping out of this house wearing this like okay like simp but but jokes apart I would say um like I I I learn a lot of like like she's a beast when it comes to like when she has like a song or an action sequence coming and everything I've seen her like she is disciplined like I've not seen like many people being disciplined and I have really uh learned that a lot from her uh because when it come
s to like you know when like there's this sequence coming or there's this that coming she goes mental like 5 months back before that and she's like her diet changes this changes that changes and then I realized you know she's she's achieved that reputation when it comes to certain things because she's she puts in that work until date and that's what stimulates her she doesn't do it with an attitude she's like then Super unemotional about it like you got to do what you got to do and that I've lik
e I've I've really like kind of that helps me sometimes as a reminder that you know just you got to do what you got to do uh if you really want the rewards for that U and that is something remarkable about her Cricket yeah okay man what separates the best at International level it's not as simple as saying mental game separates the best mental side to be a professional athlete but to keep that intensity going for very long that is what intensity has to be stretched over a very long period of Tim
e how does it feel to be Vicky Cal right now external perspective how does it feel feels great feels great feels great because um knocking on the doors am i f for the audition but now when you look back and you don't you you like I I like hold it to my chest like that you know if I today say that Sam bahad is the toughest role I've done I want to change that in my next film I want to be able to say that no you know what I've topped that this is my toughest role now and I want to keep pushing mys
elf to that level sucess but at least I want to that I gave it so much there's a lot of gratitude [Music] because each and every person coming to me for a selfie or an autograph means the world to me uh because I have walked on the streets uh not anybody knowing me and I wanted to change that and now that it's changed I don't want like I want more of it and don't you get tired and people who are coming to me for selfies and they've seen me for 10 minutes they only ask I'm tired for that there's
something I was doing for many years that that was tiring for me to get this from you so I want like I want 24 hours of this so um so it's a good feeling it's a feeling of gratitude and uh and U it motivates me also yeah this time that is going on what do you mean I have not put a Finish Line for myself uh it's like like that checkered flag is flag is a mirage for me I wanted to be there but I don't want to reach there because because you know as they say that the wolf climbing the hill is alway
s hungrier than the wolf on the hill so I want to be the wolf climbing the hill and I want to keep seeing that Peak and the peak I should never reach uh because every time I you know once you reach there you've reached there now now what you're going to come down only you know or you stay there but I just want to keep climbing so goal is is something that I'll probably set a new goal every year every phase every few years but I just whatever the uh the limits St for this profession or whatever I
want to I want to achieve them all success metric Daily Success matric literally and that is a very holistic success matric because success is not just for me it's not just a job okay it's for me as a husband it's for me as a son it's for me as a brother it's for me as an actor it's for me as a public figure it's for me as everything put together I need to feel successful uh not just as an actor or Journey trade U social life uh um sh the not I would't say like friendship but pure friendship pu
re friendship that's not dependent on the number of times you meet them or talk to them lack of new pure friendship uh N I feel like what new pure when you're saying pure it's a very like a meaning pure pure friendships are also notep but I feel say like my college friends your engineering friends s i I love them to bits and and that really is like one part of my life which I can call like truly like family uh which they are but I sometimes don't get to meet them as much as I would want to spend
time with them as much as I would want to and so many times I like like really feel for moded I can't I'm not there or whatever but but that's a very small price you pay and thank God that they are true friends because they understand okay this is what you mean by social life lack of social life yeah just this Factor the social ccle it's like my family and these friends and a few friends from the industry that's a different story are you comfortable naming who from the industry yeah there there
there's Amit pal singra there's Anan tiari uh he's a director uh I've gone for his drama coaching when I was a kid really yeah an anyway he had directed these two guys I met them during laa square foot and anan's wife angira who was my co-star uh these guys are like like family uh and but there are a few people okay uh Vicky k you are the Shan of Indian engineering students uh this was a lot of fun talking to you honestly uh I hope you also had fun bro but wow these are the closing lines yeah w
ow yeah I didn't feel like like for me also it's like it's fun for me where I feel like I had a genuine chat uh where like you know it's not a presentation of who I am what I am what film is coming up or whatever it's just we're just having a conversation and and hope like I'm I'm sure that's how it's going to reach them but but uh it was like it's it really was fantastic being here and uh connecting to you and connecting to your viewers through the show uh and I'm uh just very thankful for havi
ng me on the show so thank you for that no I have some last things to tell you not to ask you okay okay uh the whole intention of the show is get into your heart rather than just your mind uh and I know you're aware of this but maybe I'm just repeating myself you're a very very blessed human definitely disciplined think engineering but there's a big role of Destiny in your life very very big role to get selected for particular Parts even from the start 100% why were you the ad with the the actua
l director so there's too much Destiny that's gone into your life and it's very obvious even from the outside this is what I knew about you before I actually spoke to you today so I'm just very I Won't Say curious I'm very happy and excited to see that Hill that you're climbing on because uh maybe you don't want to look at the check out line and maybe there's no check out line but we can like see it so it's great bro I just I just wish you all the luck thank you uh really it's very very nice tal
king to you just as a guy forget even the engineering College stuff for once we need to forget that but maybe I'm just doing behalf of Team TRS and Mountain Dew we have a little gift for you bro hey or pre award a uh so thank you for everything you've given us through Cinema and just very excited to see where you're going bro all the best honestly I wasn't able to encapsulate in words but that leaves room for a second podcast of course thank you so much and all the best for Sam B thank you so mu
ch thank you Brothers I think he's a very very good speaker I think I'm sure this is not the last time I'm seeing him I'm sure this is not the last time I'm speaking to him go is the same guy he's very work oriented he's completely present or humble I hope you guys understood his humility that's the greatness of this guy and that's why I feel and that's why he was a very special guest on stories on TRS please with the stories and please keep following TRS lots more coming up we will see you in t
hree days with some more himti [Music] [Applause] [Music] kah
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