Sonali Bendre on ‘Sarfarosh’: At times we felt we were making a documentary

Actress Sonali Bendre who is receiving a lot of positive responses to the second season of the streaming show lsquoThe Broken Newsrsquo is one of the actresses from Hindi cinema to have explored different film industries of IndiaWhile she worked across Tamil Marathi Kannada and Telugu cinema the actress said that for her language was a big challenge while working in those film industries and she wished that she was a little more conversant with the film teams back thenThe actress recently spoke with the IANS and discussed her new show being a part of lsquopanIndiarsquo films before the term came into being and her cultclassic lsquoSarfaroshrsquo which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary in Mumbai with a special screeningReflecting on her experience of working across the film industries of India the actress told IANS ldquoWe didnrsquot say panIndia in the 1990s we just did different cinema from across states I have done one film in Marathi cinema lsquoAnahatrsquo It was a fabulous story I have done a wonderful Tamil film it was a love story on the Internet the time when people used to visit cyber cafes I have Kannada films as well and of course Telugu films Out of all I enjoyed working in Telugu cinema and I did more of it Theyrsquore very gentle peoplerdquoAlthough the actress feels that the fun part of the similarity between different film sets of different industries is that itrsquos a film set she does feel that if the language barrier wasnrsquot there things would have been more dynamic for her as an artiste while working on films in different languagesldquoThe creativity the feeling of satisfaction after a day of good work is the same across the film sets The only difference I feel is that of the language Unfortunately I didnrsquot know all the languages and couldnrsquot be very conversant with the people on the sets of those films I knew the meaning of the words but I wasnrsquot very comfortable in speaking the language seamlessly with confidence So it was 4 times the work compared to Hindi cinema for merdquo Sonali Bendre saidSarfarosh which saw her opposite Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan emerged as the gamechanger in Hindi cinema It broke the clutter owing to its excellence in all departments of filmmaking with the riveting screenplay and its perfect castingTalking about her fondest memories of the film the actress shared that there were times when she felt like ldquoAre we shooting a documentaryrdquo but it was her character in the film that made her believe that it was an allout commercial filmShe said ldquolsquoSarfaroshrsquo is a very special film more so because of the director John Matthew Matthan I and John had worked extensively in ad films There were times when we felt like lsquoAre we making a documentary or whatrsquo But it was the music and the dynamics between my and Aamir Khanrsquos characters in the film that cemented our belief that we are making a commercial Bollywood filmrdquoShe said that Aamir as we all know is a perfectionist and it was such a great experience sharing the screen with him and she learnt much more about the world of films through lsquoSarfaroshrsquoldquoAt a time when Hindi films were just about getting it right in the face of logistics and time constraints lsquoSarfaroshrsquo stands as a film that changed the course of cinema in terms of how films are made and the stories are told on the celluloidrdquo she addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever