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Welcome with me Shah Ru Khan, Salman Khan and Amir Khan. Come on, louder for everyone. I don't know what side they're coming on from.
[Music] [Applause] There we go.
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>> Welcome. [Applause] Thank you for joining us today. Hi.
>> Is everybody else joining you?
>> Come on, Sh. [Applause] [Applause] [Music]
Thank you for joining us. Thank you.
>> And last but not least, Amir. [Music] [Applause]
Thank you so much for being here today.
>> Please have a seat.
>> Wow, guys. Did you see how the energy shifted in the room the second you're all here together?
>> It's all because of you.
>> I mean, no, I don't think so. Nobody was clapping when I was here. I'm kind of jealous. What? It's amazing to have you here today. Thank you so much for joining us. And my understanding is you haven't been together on a panel in the past 10 years.
>> Yes. The last time we shared um the stage was at Raja Sharma's place.
>> That's right. Yeah. Where you all forced me to dance.
>> That's so nice. So I wanted to ask you how does it feel to be together today? And I wanted to ask you another question and I know each one of you is going to have a different answer which is so interesting. Whenever we're talking to fellow actors, we're always, what's that it factor that makes someone the second you look at them know like, oh, these guys are going to make it. They're going to be stars. They're going to be universes. They're going to be bigger than life. So, I'm so interested to know on a personal level, what is it that makes what's the it will answer this?
>> You can all answer this.
>> Will answer this.
>> Do you want me to answer this? Anybody who ever says and this would be my experience this would be Salman's and Amir's and most of the actors who worked for many many years that there is nothing like an it factor if somebody ever tells you that
>> that uh is absolutely redundant and not true. You don't know what the it factor is. The it factor has got to do with the audience. How they take on to your persona, how you look, how you talk, how you walk. None of that resonates. It's just something else about a person that an audience starts liking in large numbers. If you were to honestly ask Amir right now, he'll tell you I don't know why I'm a star. If you ask me, I'll tell you I don't know why I'm a star.
>> Uh I know
>> someone is the only one who will know. Nobody else will know.
>> I know because
>> Yeah. So Allah has to make you a star. God has been kind. Yes. So this is the thing because I see a lot of actors and you know you've been here for a very long time and you've seen changes and everything has adapted and new mediums have like happened and how do you not lose that sparkle or joy of going every day to work? What is it that makes
>> because um
>> a none of us call ourselves stars. We don't believe in that. It is some journalist they add these things. Salman Khan star, Shah Ruk Khan superstar, Amir Khan superstar. We don't believe this at all. We still at home are just like everyone else. I still get yelled by my father. my mother still get told by my sisters, my brothers. So, we're just normal human beings. And it's just that there's so many people who we work with. They are the people who portray average mediocre people like us in not them, me to look like a god on screen. So the credit is not us, it is your DP, your director, your writer and then the people, the fans go and see Shah Ruk Khan, Amir Khan, Salman Khanakshikumar, Ajay Dev Ghana, Sanjay Dat you know on screen and they like what they see on screen.
>> So to what do you attribute the success that you have? Is it like a a group work like you're saying right now
>> it's success is what Friday
>> the success of even Bollywood film as your story is going on such a global platform in general
>> see our films release on a Friday and film is a big hit does well we're happy we come to a stage that the film is not so good doesn't do well some competitors are very So with everything that's mo like all the things that are changing, how do you adapt a little bit your craft with the changing times to appeal to the new generation but at the same time still appeal to the generation that has followed you from the start?
>> I think at the end of it all it's all about uh you know the content the emotional content that we have in our storytelling. Um, Amir is an extremely organized um, perfectionist as they call him.
>> No, no, no. He works organized at all.
>> Okay. He's not organized but he works very hard trying to tell a story. Salman has his freewheeling way to come and work because it comes from the heart. I try to uh amalgamate both of these but at the end I think the core value that the three of us and all the other stars Salman mentioned and lots of other stars who will come along the way.
>> I think there's an emotional cont uh connect that our films have. Maybe it's a culture, maybe it's the fact that we all belong to uh in India at least and I think that's why more so in Saudi also there's a familial connect somewhere whatever the story if I'm playing a bad guy a good guy a happy guy a poor guy a rich guy whatever character we are playing I think somewhere the culture part of it and the emotional connect transcends boundaries of languages platforms as you mentioned whether it's on uh a telephone or an iPad or um on OTT I I think it's the storytelling emotional connect that binds every actor not just the three of us. We've been very fortunate like Salman mentioned God has been too kind to us. We just get up in the morning and do our work as simply as he said um being lombasted by our families at home for doing right and wrong. But we just get up in the morning and go back to work. But I think it's the emotional connect that somehow because of hundreds of people who work with us have been able to portray us and we have been able to tell these familial emotionally culturally common stories for the rest of the world in spite of the language that we speak.
>> So what do you think makes it appealing for such a global scale? Is it just the emotional part or could it be the addition of music, the the image, the photo? I mean I remember when I was starting to acting and everybody was like okay you need to go to Bollywood not Hollywood and I remember I had a period where I started watching
>> you should have come you've made it
>> should have actually I used to live oh really
>> thank you can do it and Katrina can do it
>> and yeah but it requires a lot of hard work and first it requires you to speak the language
>> if I if I want to do um an Arabic film
>> I will have to learn the language.
>> Mhm. That's interesting. Wow. But I was thinking and you believe you have to take a lot of risks in this industry cuz I feel like all of you have you're also wearing producer hats on not just actors. So for me I always wondered is there any limitations to just being actors? Is there a reason why you wanted to produce? Amir do you want to answer or
>> sorry what is your question? becoming a producer because
>> you know let me go back earlier to your earlier question of how you know what is a star like Shah Ruk said I think it's impossible to pinpoint uh perhaps I think all three of us were very fortunate that we were born in India born in a country where where we could be part of Hindi cinema had we been born somewhere else we wouldn't have been here so I think
>> you know if you're born in Hollywood those guys would have not been Well, so I'm saying it's a lot of it's it's the opportunities. It's where you are at the at what time you know uh fate whether you call it fate or whatever destiny where you are at that time. Of course, everyone is hardworking. All of us work hard and a lot of people who want to come into any field work very hard. But it's also a lot of are you at the right place at the right time. Many things work in your favor which are not in our control.
>> Many things are not in our control. So it's a mix of all of that I guess.
>> Yeah.
>> See Amir comes from a film background. So do I. This man here didn't.
>> He didn't. He came from Delhi.
>> Uh may I may I interject Salman? Sorry.
>> I also come uh from a film family. Salman's family is my family.
>> So I'm also like that family is my family. So
>> So now we know why Shah is a star. But that's why I must have
>> That's so nice to see this relationship between you guys. How do you feel in general?
>> That's only on stage.
>> You should see us backstage what we do
>> right after this.
>> Well, how's your relationship with with stardom in general and everything that happens? I know sometimes stardom can consume people and sometimes it can feed you. I mean, we're all humans here, right? Sometimes we want to have bad days and now you feel like with you appealing to so many audiences and having this much presence on social media, how do you feel it impacts you on a mental level, does it feed your soul or can it get overwhelming sometimes?
>> Well, it is challenging. I think it is challenging. Being uh in the public eye all the time is challenging. Uh I I think amongst the three of us, I'm probably the most reluctant star. No sir.
>> No, you always wanted to be a star more than both of us.
>> No, because he was the first born star.
>> I like to be in corners. I don't like I don't like the limelight on me. I'm not comfortable with that.
>> Are you an introvert?
>> I'm more of an introvert. Yeah. Uh so I I am uncomfortable in many ways. But all of us deal with it in our own way, I guess. You know I think you know I I don't want to take away the import of uh social media but I do believe uh that when it comes to social media and especially being in the limelight or in the glare of public all the time which any public figure has not only in films otherwise also
>> uh today uh you just have to have blinkers on
>> you have to believe uh cinema story writing storytelling creative work is a the beginning germ is belief. So if you have belief and this is what I'm doing and inshallah this will turn out to be well hopefully this will turn out to be well what others say does not matter. So you have to have blinkers on. You just have to say there there's going to be a lot of noise, too much noise all around you. Oh, he should dress up like this. He should sit like this. His film should have been like this. I think every morning if he were to look at social media, people tell us what next film to do also. What uh who we should star with in the film, who the director should be. But you have to believe in a simple basic idea of storytelling and just start your day with that, end your day with that, end your year with that. And I think you should end your whole uh career like that. Everything else is noise. You just tell your story. The what the story that you believe in. It's as simple as that. We've been doing it for 35 years. Maybe I put it too simply. Uh for people who are starting off and who are now surrounded by this um fantastic uh social media influx in every part of our lives may have problems dealing with it. The youngsters will have problems. But if you were to take anything from our experience, like he said, he's an introvert. uh whatever I know of Salman I don't think he wants to be in the public eye personally I'm very shy so we actually are people who would not love to be in the public eye all the time we deal with it because it's part of a job now beyond that I don't think either of us takes it seriously we just make sure our work is taken more seriously than that
>> he doesn't come out of his house he doesn't come out of his house I don't come out of my house
>> only when we have to work that is when we have to go to shoots See, I believe um I remember um that must have been about 13, 14, I went to see this film called Enter the Dragon and when I came out of the theater, I thought I was Bruce Lee and I got beaten up.
>> Okay. But that impact is that I realized one thing is that when you come out of the theater, somebody should want a son like you. A mother should want a son like you. A father should want a son like you.
>> A sister should want a brother like you. A girl should want a husband or a boyfriend like you. And when you come out of the theater, you should go back home at least a 20 25% a better person. And that character is liked. So he's liked by older women that I want a son like this. I want a brother. Now we've come to a stage like I want a father like him. Very soon we going to be we want grandfathers like him, granddad. But do you feel like you have to be you cannot necessarily be your authentic self when you have such when you're put on such a pedestal of people wanting to be like you wanting to do that that you don't get to express your weaknesses because as human beings we all do have weaknesses as well.
>> Success has made more failures than failure itself. You fail get complacent you stand up you start working a lot harder. success. If this goes to your head, then your old age is going to be really painful. So, you should never let success go to your head. It's I mean, you cannot take the credit. You can take the credit for failure because you've signed the film, you've done the project, but you cannot ever take the credit for success. It belongs to everyone.
>> And the energy, that's very correct. And I always thought that acting we're trading energies with people and that people require your energy all the time. So my question would be when you have such a huge fan base and and audiences and people around you all the time, where do you resource yourself and what's your relationship with the fans and how do you maintain healthy boundaries with people so that you're able to have your bad day or able to focus on the scene you want to do without necessarily having to give your attention to everyone around. I think Razan what happens is uh when you're asking these questions to the three of us the answer would be similar you just have to be true to yourself and when you become a star people expect a certain kind of behavior from you certain kind of uh uh you know out in the public that we start to learn as a matter of fact stardom of the level that Salman has seen Ahmed has seen I've been fortunate enough to see actually humbles you it makes you grateful to all the forces around you and one of the biggest forces are the audience who's loving you so much. So the humility always becomes uh I'm sure for all of us and all the other actors as the years go by that I'm in the service of the audience. I really need to make sure that they are entertained. Like Salman said when they walk out they should feel a better person because they've seen our film. When they walk out they should aspire to be somebody or they should identify with the character we are playing. So at the end of it all all actors at least in our context would be that there is nothing else that we want to think about as a matter of fact I think we don't even like to call them fans these are people who love us you talk about energies we just want to share this positivity back with them that they have given to us not only shared for the last 35 years so I think it's a very gratifying feeling it's a feeling of gratitude it's a feeling of wanting to serve everybody who comes to watch our films in the best way possible there's never been a finger lifted, an expression done, a dialogue done without keeping in mind are we making sure everybody who comes to watch this film is happy to see or goes back like Salman said a better person. So it's a it's you just have to be honest to yourself and say I'm in the service of uh storytelling to this huge gamut this huge sea of people who love us so much.
>> Yeah. And how do you recharge yourself with all these things? It's like where do you find your source of inspiration on a daily basis to be able to give everybody else that feeling?
>> I I find it in my children. I I find uh kids very refreshing, very resourceful and um Salman has a lot of children in his family. A has kids. I I find them great source of energy. Um I just find their ideas now you know I've been fortunate to be first. Let me just say thank you Joy Forum for giving us this opportunity. Thank you Adnan for having us here. Thank you um Turk al-Sh. I'll tell you the reason. Last night we were together. Last night we were together and we got to meet so many people. We met the team from Squid Games. We met Speed. We met Mr. Beast. And this energy that we see of so many other people that we've only uh experienced on screen, never met personally really helps us also to think okay you know here is a congregation of people that all of us are come to this platform in Saudi uh sharing wanting to tell people good stories to entertain them. I think that's refreshing for me you know when I come to a forum like this get to meet us in this kind of setting. We meet other otherwise at home and have a great time. But this is really nice to come and say okay there's so many people wanting to share ideas you take refreshment from there you take energy from there and yes, the more innocence you spend time with, the more energy you get to express in acting.
>> I find uh I find reading uh really helps me. I love reading since I was a small kid. So that is something that that input of characters, ideas that that really inspires me when I read a good book.
>> And now singing as well.
>> Now Mohammed is singing also. He's learning classical singing for the last two two years now.
>> Okay. Now these two have decided to start pulling my legs.
>> Are they would you like to like please put you on the spot now? I think basically you know basically our families keep us grounded and we know that till the time we don't give it our blood and sweat the hardest that we can work you know tearing ligaments breaking bones I don't think that the audience will they want to see hard work they want to see that we're taking our time off we're taking a whole day off to go and watch a movie we want to see you at your best
>> so that is what keeps us going because they are taking their families are going to see somebody who they don't know, but yet we're in their living rooms, in their bedrooms. We're on their phones. So, we all the time have to give it our best so that their money is well spent
>> when they come and watch our movies. And basically, our families keep us grounded. And we've seen we've seen you know from nobodyies we were nobodyies to such heights of success and then suddenly um disaster after disaster. So that failure has kept us all balanced that this is always never going to be there. This is going to go. Now how are we going to handle this is that's the only one thing in our mind that we should be normal human beings content
>> and that whatever he's given us till whatever time till whenever we are grateful for that and 99.9% of the people don't have even 0.1% % of what we have and it is because of them that we have what we have today and we all are very grateful to them. M that's such a lovely word and hearing you all speak about families it just shows how we have similar values in the Middle East as well like we're very family oriented so it's very refreshing to see the strong bonds and what do you think would be the similarities between the Arabic culture and the Indian culture?
>> Uh well whatever I mean I this is the second time that I'm coming to Saudi Arabia. It's a beautiful country. I came a few months ago uh for the Red Sea Festival
>> and now for this one. I think that uh the people here are extremely loving, extremely respectful. Um there's a lot of positivity in everyone here. So that's wonderful to see
>> and generosity I find.
>> Certainly you're absolutely right.
>> Yeah. Uh so there are a lot of similarities similarities I think the emotional key uh that Indians have is very similar to the to all of Middle East and I would say even like I've been to China and over there I find that the you know the emotional key of Chinese people is very similar to Indians as well. Yeah. So it's not just I think it's the Middle East, India and even the East has a very similar key in terms of their emotions. That's what I have experienced.
>> And also the respect that we have not only for our parents, for our grandparents.
>> That's true.
>> For our mothers and that respect is I mean you have it here. The whole Arab world has it and and so and so do we. That mother is nothing above mother and there's And no and no man can ever be happy for a person's success than his own father. So we know these things. We know that they're on our side. And the fact that um we will stand up in front of them, we will bow down in front of them is because we have that tremendous amount of respect for our people.
>> You have it here, we have it there. and that thing of um that we should not hurt our loved ones. So these are things that is common with in your culture and our culture.
>> That's true. And this is what I want wanted to ask you next is that Saudi Arabia is really becoming like a hub um attracting people from all over the world to come do projects here. So in what way do you think you can bridge the gap between Bollywood and actually doing projects in Saudi Arabia? Do you see what is your vision for that?
>> I think after having spoken the fact that you know we have uh so many cultural binding things, familial things, we are all god-fearing. I think these are commonalities between us and Saudi and actually if you really expand your vision uh most of the world believes in these three tenets and I think uh what Saudi Arabia through forums like this and other uh things that are happening in Saudi Arabia lately I think is opening up a midpoint for the world from the west to come in from the east to come in share ideas plan things and to be honest uh the openness and the hospitality and the love with which everybody's welcome coming here I think that itself is so uh it makes you feel so wanted you know you come here once I've been here a couple of times now and I've flown I've been shooting here for about 15 20 days for me it is look I'd love to come back here you just need an excuse to come again uh and inshallah work also brings us back forums like this bring us back but at an individual level also I think the fact that uh Saudi has cultivated uh this uh landscape for all kinds of people to come down here, share ideas, nurture goodwill, and basically just be able to create content. When I say content, it's not just for a platform. Just be able to tell stories to each other which make the world happy. The world sometimes is an unhappy place. I think uh we all come together, congregate in places like this. We share a bit of happiness and hopefully it'll transcend and go out to the rest of the world. So, uh there is not going to be any problem. I'm uh I don't know if you're aware or not but uh Salman and Sanju have already done a bit part in the film which is being made here which is fantastic looking. Yeah, we played we played uh um in small bits. We did a guest appearance in it's called
>> and it's seven dogs.
>> Can I can I just say in Saudi they call it guest of honor. They don't call it guest
>> man was there
>> taking care of us.
>> So it's it's a you know it's just opening of this gateway and I'm sure we'll all be working here. people from Saudi, the talent, the singers, the writers, the poets, filmmakers, uh cameramen, they'll come down to India and do stuff and all of us go around and conquest the whole world with a storytelling at the end of it all. And see uh I I think that's what uh it means. It's not a difficult thing. If your heart is in the right place like Az is from India and Saudi is from Saudi, I think we'll connect and uh continue telling lovely stories together
>> and I think it's going to be a really good thing for the Arab film industry you know um since Saudi has just opened up and um they're making theaters after theaters after theaters. So for the Arab film industry because um it's a very large Arab um community you know a lot of people speak the language now just imagine you have someone 20 30,000 theaters here the amount of work that your film industry will get and most of the times that other industry needs you know Arab Arabic actors.
>> Mhm. So there will be a lot of work and a lot of revenue that is generated and I think this that the Arab film industry could be one of the largest film industries.
>> I also feel that Saudi Arabia over the last few years is demonstrating with its actions that it wants to be more inclusive. it wants to be part of you know um larger things and I think that that demonstration with actions is going to pay up pay lot of you know uh I mean like Salman was saying it'll bring a lot of work here it'll the fact that you know Saudi is inviting creative people not just creative people I think sports people as well from all over the world uh by their actions they're indicating that they would like to be much more inclusive And I think that itself is a very strong statement and a strong step sure in the right direction.
>> So what project would have to land right now in front of you that's a co-production between Bollywood and Saudi Arabia?
>> Razan Salman by is learning Arabic.
>> Oh that's wonderful.
>> I'm learning the dance and Amir is going to audition for the song right now.
>> Come on. Come on. He's learning for see they'll keep an You know what my problem is? They'll keep asking intellectual questions and we'll run out of answers after that. We entertainers. We
>> enter with my questions. By the way,
>> you're sounding too intelligent. Razan, we are getting a call about what else nice word big words to use. So, we are going to ask Army to save us with they just uh he's just been learning. So, we all have to be happy that he started learning and he'll do a little rendition and the loudest claps have to come. Uh Salman and we are going to clap the loudest when he sings. So I love singing. I don't know how much other people like my singing but I enjoy it. So why don't all of us three of us sing here? No,
>> we'll do the backup dancing.
>> Why don't you join
>> like we like we do in Hindi film. Salman and we will just stand behind
>> and we'll do a little dance please.
>> Salman our step is this step.
>> Whichever song you want we listen. Whichever song you want to sing, a we are your back background dancers. Big round of applause ladies and gentlemen. his first public performance of his learning the classical singing
>> and in Saudi Arabia
>> that was great
>> actually Salman sings really well I've heard him sing
>> yeah but only in the studio and after that uh the technicians spent about two months uh correcting my voice so I don't think it's a good idea singing right here now also um you know uh Saudi Arabia has given so much of employment to our people you know people from the south people from uh all over India so it's like amazing everyone um because they pay them well they take great care of them here so most of the people the working class as well as everybody they get a much better salary here their life is much better there I mean the the families there are taken care of. So we are really thankful and grateful for all the employment that you have given our people. Yeah.
>> So definitely there are stories to be told since there's such a large large presence here of people from India. I guess I'm already writing a script in my mind. So I wonder what would you like what's your dream project that you could think right now or in a special location or a special jar that you see would fit Saudi Arabia?
>> See right now if you make a Hindi film and just release it here it'll be a super hit. If you make a T Tamil film or a Telugu film or a Mallayali film film,
>> they will do hundreds of crores of business just in this belt. Just in the GCC belt because so many people from our countries have come here. There are people from Baluchasan. There are people from Afghanistan. There are people from Pakistan. Everyone is working here.
>> That's so nice. Do you have anything to say? No, I mean you're asking about a dream project. I think uh let me show off a little. It's been too long. I've been humble on this platform. Yeah, I've been being too nice, too kind. I have to say if three of us are in a project, it is a dream itself.
>> So, whenever we absolutely hopefully not a nightmare, it will be a dream if the three of us are together. And inshallah whenever we get an opportunity a story we always sitting whenever Amir Salman myself we get together and I look up to these two guys genuinely I do because they've been working in the industry
>> he still does he still does
>> I still do look look at me I'm still looking up to Salman so uh I look up to them honestly because uh the kind of ups and downs and the work they've done starting from scratch and having worked their up way up to this these people are aspirational and inspirational and somewhere I feel really really thankful that I have the opportunity to sit on the same forum, same stage and the same house and chat with them. So uh if we are able to get together for a film which we discuss lot of times we just need to make sure it does not let anyone down. So, so Shah Ruk has this one thing keeps on saying it over and over again that I want him to say that here. Try and say that here that nobody can afford us three in a film together. That's right.
>> I don't want to say it I don't want to say it in Saudi because everybody will get up say habibi habibi done done. No, we joke. We joke because the affordability is not just the money. The affordability is the kind of timings we follow for work. We're very hardwork. We do come on time. But we have our own eccentricities. We've been working for too long. So can anyone afford those eccentricities? You know, I also tell you when when we are working together, we start laughing and joking so much. I'm sure any director, producer and writer will can you start working now guys please can we stop joking about and all. So I think uh there's a lot of goodness we three share. There's a lot of goodness we need to tell a story with. And uh one fine day uh the three of us will be uh in a place where somebody takes on all the eccentricities and says come on three of you work together and have a good time inshallah.
>> Then when we three work together the hero the star of the project is not going to be Shah Ruk Kamir or me it's going to be the script. The script and the script itself that's it.
>> That's nice. But I can see you guys doing comedy together, action together, drama together. Like the world is your oyster. So I feel like today is maybe like a day that's special where something's going to be born hopefully.
>> Amit, what come
>> are you with us?
>> Sorry. He's already zoned out. He's spaced out.
>> So what can we do to bring back your attention?
>> What do you want to talk about?
>> No, no, no. He's stuck on the third question.
>> Okay.
>> What?
>> He'll answer you from the third question now. He's he's understood the third question and he'll come back. He's been thinking very well.
>> The third question was why why are you also producing as well? I think that was the third question. Do you want to answer that?
>> When can we all come together?
>> No, I I missed that. What were you asking?
>> When can we all come together?
>> I think I think emotionally all three of us are ready to do a film together. Uh it's just a matter of coming across the right script. So hopefully as uh Salman said, it'll be the script that's most important uh for all three of us I guess. And once it's a good story which all three of us like then I think you know hopefully it's a well
>> the rest of things don't matter now
>> it's always a story for me right from the beginning of my career it's always been you know I as a kid I I've always loved listening to stories as I'm sure you all do as well. So I remember when I was a kid I used to we used to you know harass our cook so that when she would finish cooking then she would sit in the kitchen and then we would all gather around her. Her name was Nasim Bi and she would tell us stories you know and I loved listening to stories from from the time from childhood. I began reading at a very young age six at the age of six I began reading. So I got into stories and then my father was a producer. So a lot of directors and writers would come to pitch.
>> My father used to come.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> My father used to come to your father.
>> Yeah. Yeah. So uh I've sat in from the age of six or seven years till the age of 16 17 almost all the stories that my father heard I heard. And to begin with sha I used to hide behind the curtain because my father was very hot-tempered you know. So I was scared that he might get upset with me. So I used to hide behind the curtain and then he got to know that I'm listening to his stories. So he brought me in front and I think today when I look back I realize that that was my training ground. I I never imagined I would be in the films at that time but just hearing stories and hearing the analysis of a story from people who are in the field writers directors that taught me a lot as I was growing up. It was like a gurugul you know like we have in India the gurugul style of learning is probably what I went through you know also we because of films were made my father and uncle were both filmmakers we've seen films evolve from the story to the prep to the way you know six reels have been shot eight reels have been shot
>> and we've seen screenings of our films which our parents have made so that entire process was a big learning I think for me during my childhood
>> and Since my father is a script writer, so we used to do this every day at home.
>> Yeah. Yeah. And in fact, Saleem Sab and Javit Sab, Salman's father, Saleem Sab,
>> the two of them were the most successful writers that India has ever seen.
>> I think they wrote 22 scripts together.
>> Yes.
>> Out of which 18 are super hits. I mean, what a track record here.
>> Yeah.
>> So, what advice would you have for the next generation of actors that's coming up now in a very different world?
>> You know, I think we first started. I think three of us will need advice from the young actors because they are so good. Have you seen the young actors? They're doing their first film. Amazing. I think the young guys don't need any advice from us. We need advice from them in their first film.
>> In fact, they give you advice. Don't follow.
>> No, I I feel that the younger generation I feel the younger generation is 10 10 steps ahead of us. I'm I'm I'm I'm certain about that because the the quality of work that young actors are doing, actors, actresses, writers, amazing stuff. So I get really inspired to watch young people work. I mean if you see Lapata ladies, they're all new actors here. And when I saw the first cut, they have this huge advantage over
>> they have this whole advantage over us because uh when we were growing up, we didn't have CCTV cameras. We didn't have uh phones with cameras. These kids are making they they don't
>> they're not camera conscious at all,
>> you know. They're just very free up with cameras around
>> because they're facing the camera all the time
>> from their phones to um I mean you walk into supermarket and you know that the cameras are following you all the time. We didn't have all that stuff. So the first time when we faced the camera and the camera went you know that we used to like
>> get nervous and because of that we used to go into a take another take another take that sound used to distract us but now today the equipment is so amazing and this everywhere it's cameras cameras cameras cameras cameras so the younger generation they don't have the fear at all like how now Arian made up web show bads of Bollywood ollywood and it's done really really well. So now his upbringing is
>> sure
>> the same but he didn't want to I had to rather have him him in front of the camera and um uh supersede his father and like I said earlier Arian will be the only person he'll be happy with if Arian supersedes him
>> or if Salman has a son then I'd like him to be the biggest star ever in the history of mankind. So we are working on that. But I I have a little advice for youngsters. Like Salman said, he's very right. All the youngsters are now very video literate. Cameras are on their faces, in their hands, everywhere around. And I think yes, it has helped Arn and all the youngsters now who are coming as actors or directors or storytellers because they're so used to cameras being around like Salman said when we started with that I2C camera gear, the sound you had to talk over it. There was no sync sound. It was very very difficult. But I think there are two parts to being a creative person. One is the art, one is the craft. And the craft is now very easily available because of technology. It's in your hands. But within all that, do not let your art go. And what is art? Art has to be the innocence which Salman Khan has retained over the years. What Amir Khan has retained over the years. Hopefully I can retain over the years. the innocence of just wanting to tell a story in the simplest form like he heard from his father like he's heard from my father I'm sure growing up I heard from my father and mother so I think if you are able to keep it simple don't get carried away by the craft by the uh social media by the peripherals of telling a story which are very many marketing publicity wanting to be a star being in a cover of a magazine there are lots of noise around if you're able to take the craft learn it but don't don't let the craft take over the art that you have and the art is the heart. That's all you have. You have to feel from within.
>> Wow. The art is the heart.
>> And let me tell you uh we are on a forum where we'll be very honest about it. There are days when we get it wrong. We also know it it's gone wrong. We couldn't do better than what we wanted to do. We go back home even now and sit back and say I could have done can I ask for one more take. We think that way and we also feel very sad when all of it goes wrong. But wake up in the morning and feel that we have to get back to what we know best which is just basic storytelling. And it is very touching to hear that these two wonderful superstars not only of a country but of the world have just grown up and decided to tell stories because their father used to tell them stories. So it's as simple as that. The stories that you hear at home from your family are the ones you want to tell outside. And that simplicity is the art. So please retain that. Work hard. Bad days, good days, just keep working hard.
>> Have you seen that Netflix you and Janet?
>> Jun and me. Oh, we did a ad. That ad you're talking about?
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Yeah. So, he me.
>> So, I called him up and uh there was a scene that they recreated of Andaz Upna and Juned has done it so well. So well. I called him up. I said Joned is fantastic in this. So now being Amir's son.
>> Okay, he's grown up.
>> I mean I used to carry him in my ar both their children. Now I'm working on my own but that's besides the point that but fantastic. I called him up and I said you know what job you guys have done on that. So it was a promotion for your YouTube channel that it was amazing amazing job.
>> Thank you so much guys. I think we are nearly out of time. I think I could have spent a lot more time here with you guys, but in a nutshell, is there anything you can summarize in maybe one phrase? What's going to be the future of Bollywood and what do you envision it with this myriad of cultures coming together?
>> I think more than talking about Hindi film industry, Bollywood, South Indian film industry, the three of us would like to stand together and thank Saudi for giving us this opportunity.
>> Let's go.
>> And thank you Razam for looking out.
>> Thank you so much guys. and let's call it and let's not call it Bollywood anymore. Let's call it the Hindi film industry.
>> Industry and we'd like to thank the whole of Saudi for having the three of us here.
>> Thank you so much.
>> Thank you for all the love and respect. Thank you.
>> We've had the three of us have had more fun being together than you've had listening to us, I'm sure. So, God bless you and inshallah we'll be here more often and make films together with Saudi, with India, for the rest of the world.