From visiting the stage where he made his acting debut to flying (crashing) paper planes, Abhishek Bachchan took Nihal Ranjit on a trip down memory lane. Check it out. #BrutSauce
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00:00To all my teachers who said I'd never make it in life.
00:04That was a lucky guess.
00:06Hello, sir. My name is Nihal. It is so nice to meet you.
00:09Pleasure to meet you, Nihal.
00:10How are you, sir?
00:11I'm very well, thank you. How are you?
00:12I'm great, thank you.
00:13Can you please tell the viewers back at home where we are currently?
00:17Well, I'm guessing we're in the kindergarten section of Jamnabai North Sea School,
00:21which is one of the few schools that I attended when I was a kid.
00:30So did you ever get any special treatment, perhaps, from teachers?
00:34Just to get in your dad's good book, maybe?
00:36No, not that I can remember. I get asked this question quite often.
00:40I see.
00:41But I can't remember ever having any special treatment.
00:45Okay.
00:46They're either being extra harsh on me because they wanted to prove a point,
00:49that they weren't being, you know, being extra lenient.
00:53They were amazing. Everybody was equal, so it was great.
00:58So, for then, parent-teacher conferences, was it mom or was it dad showing up?
01:02I'm pretty sure it'd be my mom because my dad used to be so busy working.
01:05Yeah, I'd imagine.
01:06He was doing at least two or three shifts a day.
01:09Right. Well, I feel like normally, it's usually the kids who are a little nervous for parent-teacher conferences.
01:13Petrified.
01:14Yeah, but probably with your scenario, it's probably the teacher, maybe, a little bit more nervous.
01:18Well, could have been.
01:19Yeah.
01:20But in boarding school, I didn't like parent's weekend at all.
01:23That was petrifying.
01:24Right.
01:25Because my dad, during that phase, wasn't working.
01:28So, he used to come for all the parent-teacher meetings.
01:31I don't think he was too happy a camper by the end of it.
01:36Did you ever throw a paper plane in class?
01:38Oh, yeah.
01:39I have with me some paper. Pick a color. It's all you.
01:43My daughter's favorite color, pink.
01:44Pink. Okay, that was my choice, but it's cool. I will take blue.
01:47Pink's your favorite color?
01:49Yeah, it is.
01:50So, you make your plane, I'll make mine, and then we'll compete in a minute from now.
01:53No pressure, no pressure.
01:54It's all about technique. I've been practicing all of last night.
02:02I'm a pro at this.
02:03How's it going over there?
02:05I'm fine. You mind your own business. You do your thing. Don't check over your shoulder, man.
02:09See, he distracted me now. I got my fold wrong. My aerodynamics are going to be off.
02:13I know you see the measurements are a little off. You might call it a flaw. I call it flamboyant.
02:18This is a plane, when we were in school, we used to call it the bomber.
02:23Kiss for good luck. We call it Sauce Airlines. Always got to blow.
02:28Yeah, I think he's going to lose.
02:30Take your time.
02:31I'm going to.
02:33Look at that. A thing of beauty.
02:35I mean, it looks fancy, but let's see. So, I'm going to let you go first.
02:38No, no, no, please. Age before beauty.
02:40It's going to be a tough act to follow.
02:42Okay, so cameraman, do you need to go back? Because this is going to take flight.
02:46Paper plane to my right. Abhishek to my left. Glory in front of me.
02:50Editor, you might want to put this in slow-mo because it's going to come majestically.
03:05Could I do a redo now?
03:07Okay, I'm going to do right-handed just for you.
03:09Okay, well, I wasn't standing there. I was sort of at the black line.
03:11You were here. Oh, stop it. You took two steps.
03:14Sort of over there.
03:15Alright, let's see. Let's hope this works.
03:17Oh!
03:21Editor, put cricket sounds everywhere.
03:23How did it come behind you?
03:25It literally went up and came straight down.
03:27This is... Here I am promoting my father's next film, Runway 32.
03:31That's pretty much what happened. The plane crashes.
03:33See, I'm a good son.
03:35How did you do that?
03:37You should have just folded up and thrown it.
03:39You're just being a hater right now. I just can't see this.
03:41Yeah, I am. I'm a sore loser. Yeah.
03:43I don't like this. Call me a glide-hater.
03:45I want another piece of paper.
03:47What you are seeing is Abhishek Bachchan at a second attempt.
03:50You know, it's me acting over-smart with my bomber and stuff.
03:53That didn't work.
03:55No pressure. It's not going to be embarrassing failing the second time.
03:57Oh, shut it. Shut it.
03:59So don't even worry about that.
04:01This is going to go past you at least.
04:03No, I'm guessing it's going to go behind you.
04:05Heaven help me.
04:07Okay, we're cutting. We're cutting.
04:09This interview is over. I can't even take it forward from here.
04:12Yeah, do all that.
04:14Let's get out of here.
04:16Good evening, class.
04:18No, no. Please sit down.
04:20You can call me Professor...
04:22Yes?
04:24Miss, can I go to the bathroom?
04:26Absolutely not.
04:28My name is Mr.
04:30Yeah.
04:32It's almost as good as my paper.
04:34Mr.
04:36Sauce.
04:38Mr. Sauce.
04:40I'm going to be teaching you Gen Z vocabulary.
04:42Great.
04:44Alright.
04:46I'm going to quiz you on a few words.
04:48If you don't know what it means, try to guess what it means.
04:50Okay?
04:52This is the OK Boomer segment.
04:54Many have tried and everybody has failed.
04:56So dare I say, could you be the first one?
04:58Highly doubt it.
05:00Yeah, same.
05:02So the first word is finsta.
05:04What does a finsta mean?
05:06I don't know.
05:08Do you want to guess?
05:10No.
05:12This is going to go by really fast.
05:14A finsta is a fake Instagram
05:16that you use for a more intimate following.
05:18That's what we make
05:20finstas for.
05:22So see, I heard finster.
05:24So you're going to tell me you knew what finsta meant?
05:26No, I still didn't know.
05:28Okay.
05:30So, just a scoreboard over there.
05:32A, B.
05:34Nihao.
05:36We'll just put zero there.
05:38Don't worry about it though.
05:40Next word is extra.
05:42What does extra mean?
05:44In the English language, I can tell you what extra means.
05:46Well, in the slang connotation.
05:48He's being really extra right now.
05:50Yeah, he's just overdoing it.
05:52Not bad, not bad.
05:54Feeling confident?
05:56We have one point.
05:58Ghosting.
06:00When you ghost somebody,
06:02is it like when you don't answer their messages
06:04or you don't get back to them?
06:06There we go!
06:08Okay, ball rolling.
06:10Gucci.
06:12It's a great clothing brand.
06:14Yes, I'm sure.
06:16In slang, what does Gucci mean?
06:18In a sentence?
06:20I'm feeling Gucci today.
06:22Okay, so I'm feeling on top of my game.
06:24Okay, that was a lot of context.
06:26I'm fine.
06:28What does Addy mean?
06:30How do you spell that?
06:32Addy.
06:36In a sentence?
06:38My favorite word is Addy.
06:40Thanks.
06:42Can you send me the Addy?
06:44The dress.
06:46I sort of handed that to you.
06:48No.
06:50AB going fairly strong.
06:52I'm going to give you two more words.
06:54The next one is stop the cap.
06:56This is the phrase.
06:58Cap as in C-A-P.
07:00Stop capping.
07:08Hey man, stop the cap.
07:10If you're like
07:12bullshitting your way through stuff.
07:14I can't give that to you.
07:16Stop the cap means stop lying.
07:18You're lying.
07:20Yo!
07:22Listen, I don't make the rules.
07:24I don't keep the score.
07:26I can't give that to you.
07:28The last word is
07:30flex.
07:36I think I know what it means.
07:38My second favorite word is flex.
07:42Stop flexing on me dude.
07:44We get it.
07:46You're flexing on me.
07:48When you're trying to assert yourself
07:50to make a point about something.
07:52Sort of like
07:54swag though.
07:56That's what I said.
07:58Not really though.
08:00Okay.
08:02That's another zero.
08:04But you did do quite well.
08:06I got five out of eight.
08:08Even if you got one,
08:10that would have been better than whatever you did at the gymnasium.
08:12I had the
08:14blue plane, right?
08:16No, you had the pink one.
08:18That's when my daughter
08:20snatched it out of my hand.
08:22You just snatched it from my hand
08:24like this is mine.
08:26Do you remember when that happened?
08:28I'm pretty sure we have it.
08:30So that was the OK Boomer segment with Abhishek Bachchan.
08:32So you're telling me you were not an avid reader.
08:34You weren't too much.
08:36Sadly, I come from a literary family.
08:38My grandfather was a very eminent poet.
08:40My maternal grandfather
08:42was a very eminent journalist.
08:44So I come from a very literary family.
08:46My sister is an avid reader.
08:48But I never really,
08:50like I said,
08:52used to be running around and playing.
08:54And then obviously later in life, my philosophy was
08:56as I told you,
08:58why read the book when you can watch the movie.
09:00So on that note, your upcoming movie, Dasvi.
09:02Can you talk to us about your
09:04character and how you sort of got prepared for the role?
09:08So yeah, Dasvi is
09:10according to me, a wonderful film.
09:12It's the story of
09:14a politician,
09:16a chief minister who gets jailed
09:18and due to certain circumstances
09:20decides to sit for his
09:2210th exams.
09:24And he's only an 8th standard pass.
09:26So how he prepares,
09:28a fair amount of the film was shot in the library.
09:30In the jail. We actually shot in
09:32the Agra Central Jail.
09:34And you also did a screening at the jail itself?
09:36Yes. The jail we shot in has
09:38a central ground, which also doubles
09:40up as a cricket pitch.
09:42So we actually took over that ground.
09:44We had brought in about 5 trucks
09:46with all the
09:48equipment. We put up 3 screens
09:50and over 2,500
09:52to 3,000 of the
09:54inmates sat down and we managed to show
09:56them the film. So I felt good about that because
09:58it was a promise we made and they loved it.
10:00I actually wanted to show you two
10:02of your older photos.
10:04Oh! Okay. Let's get you to react to them.
10:06Give the viewers just some further context.
10:08Sure. What was happening?
10:10If you remember. Oh wow, no I don't remember this.
10:12But I'm guessing that
10:14somebody got a scooter and we were playing with it.
10:16I can't even remember where this is.
10:18Insightful. Thank you.
10:20I must have been like a year old or something.
10:22But judging by the length of my hair,
10:24they had just shaved my head. So I must have been between
10:261 or 2 years old. I've seen this photo
10:28but I don't remember.
10:30That's my elder sister Shweta and my dad.
10:32In case you didn't know, that's my dad.
10:34No, we'll put the photo up. It'll pop up.
10:36Well, this is also another cute baby photo.
10:38This was a photo session in my house.
10:40And this is a photo session
10:42I always make fun of my sister
10:44because I'm holding
10:46like a stuffed toy but it's actually a camera.
10:48But why she's holding a telephone, I don't know.
10:50If you can see, it's a telephone.
10:52She actually posed like that.
10:54This is a photo shoot.
10:56Again, I don't remember doing this but I remember
10:58seeing this photograph since I was a kid.
11:00This is where my first class was.
11:02Okay, oh you remember.
11:04Like the foyer over there.
11:06This is all changed but you can see
11:08inside. None of this was here.
11:10This was all open and you had all the classrooms.
11:12I was in class. The second standard
11:14was here.
11:16Can we go to the auditorium?
11:18That was the first time I actually acted on stage.
11:20Let's do it.
11:22Are we allowed to go up there?
11:24Are we guys?
11:26We'll find out.
11:28So, how are you?
11:30Don't freak out kids.
11:32Sorry to interrupt.
11:34What class are you in?
11:36E.
11:38Second standard.
11:40I also studied here.
11:42What house?
11:46I'm sure they're going to ask for my photo after this.
11:48Let's just wait.
11:50Yeah!
11:52I was an M.G. also.
11:56Yeah, okay.
11:58You're not.
12:00Okay, yeah.
12:02I'm busy anyway so it's cool.
12:04So, here we are man.
12:06This is
12:08hallowed ground as far as I'm concerned.
12:10This is the JNS auditorium.
12:12So, the first ever time
12:14I played a starring
12:16role in the
12:18school play was
12:20when I was in Jamnabai.
12:22I don't remember the
12:24play. I just remember my character.
12:26I played a red Indian called
12:28Chief Big Bear.
12:30I was on stage right
12:32throughout, standing like this. I had this huge tattoo
12:34of a bear. I have a photographer with
12:36my huge headgear.
12:38And did dad come to watch this performance?
12:40Yes, he did. I remember
12:42we were taught.
12:44How old are you in 2nd grade?
12:46You must be about 5 or 6.
12:48He was taught
12:50if you see your parents,
12:52don't acknowledge them.
12:54But, as kids, the minute you see
12:56you know, and my dad, I remember he was there with the
12:58video camera.
13:00The minute I saw him like...
13:02I've got to ask him for that video
13:04somewhere. But, yeah, this is where it all
13:06began, man. This is very special.
13:08Thank you for doing this for me. Yeah, for sure.
13:10100%. Wow.
13:12So, you know guys, this was really fun.
13:14We saw Abhishek
13:16Bachchan in the stadium losing in
13:18spectacular fashion to me. Who's the winner?
13:20It's really up to
13:22you guys. I'll let you guys decide it in the comments.
13:24Would you have anything to say about
13:26that defeat?
13:28Absolutely not. Alright. And
13:30so that was
13:32Back to School with Abhishek Bachchan. Give it up, guys.
13:34I wish you all the success in
13:36your upcoming movie,
13:38Das Veek. It was so nice to meet you.
13:40And I will take my leave. I'll stay seated because I'm still taller than you
13:42when I'm seated. Okay, I'm just going to handshake
13:44that and... No, man, but thank you.
13:46This was incredible. Thank you so much for doing this.
13:48Thank you, sir. Alright. Peace out.