A man's undying love for his wife and son makes him go to great lengths to correct his past for a better future.
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00:00I can't think of a gun any
00:19I can't think of a gun any
00:20This house is made to disappear
00:23I do anything, but it'll appear
00:27I have to admit to what had happened
00:36River Seas is a love trail
00:39love story, sacrifice
00:41family
00:43sustained by the gains that are taken from another
00:48which is going back to the past.
00:51The power that was given to him by his father
00:55when he told his son about the power of the mystery
00:59he also told him about the conditions
01:02so that he wouldn't do the mistakes
01:04that his father did in the past.
01:10So, go on and stand up.
01:11One more doctor on the shoulder.
01:13Action.
01:18I'm Mainda Imran. I play the role of Hazira.
01:26I'd say my personality comes to all mothers.
01:29I'm very considerate of my family, my husband, and my children.
01:34To play the role of Hazira,
01:36you don't need a long preparation.
01:39But this character needs a ready-made Minda.
01:43She wants subtle acting, but very deep.
01:47For me, our emotions also have to be very strong.
01:50Sarah, please.
01:52Don't cry, please.
01:54Why is he so bad?
01:56For me, I don't have much time travelling
01:59because the one who can time travel is Akid.
02:02He tried to save nearly 500 times.
02:05Tell the audience how determined he is,
02:08how he loves his wife and children.
02:11He fought against fate, but he had to make that choice.
02:16His wife and children are the most important things in his life,
02:20but he had to decide.
02:24I don't want to be afraid of the future.
02:28You shouldn't have saved me.
02:30And I don't want to regret the past.
02:33Why didn't you save Anas?
02:37I want to live for now.
02:39No matter what happens, you have to break through.
02:44Do you hear me?
02:45Akid!
02:48You have to come back!
02:50You have to come back!
02:53As a director, this is my 15th directorial work.
02:57When I want to make a story about time travel,
03:00I look at the market now.
03:02There are so many time travel stories.
03:03So how to make the time travel team unique?
03:07When I make this story, I look at other films about time travel.
03:10And I need to find a uniqueness in this time travel.
03:13Because whenever people say about time travel,
03:14the first thing they think about is to get rich.
03:17I think all the time travel films that I've watched
03:20are all about time travel without any cost.
03:23They can just go back and forth as they wish.
03:25So when I want to do this story, it has to be about humans.
03:28It has to be about our raw feelings.
03:30And as humans, we always think about time.
03:33Time is everything.
03:34I think the story about time is something that everybody is interested in.
03:38And using this aspect, I want to talk about us, human beings.
03:41If there is time, if you can control time, what would you do?
03:53It's a love story. I wanted to do a love story.
03:55But it's not just about love.
03:57Not just about love between husband and wife, girlfriend, boyfriend.
04:00It's the love about a human being.
04:02The love that we receive, especially from our parents.
04:05So with that in mind, I wanted to put a character into a test
04:08where if you can play God,
04:10but the cost is to risk your life.
04:12How far would you go?
04:14That's the challenge that I want to put into the characters in this film.
04:31Although he is someone who can be considered an introvert,
04:36but he meets someone who completes his picture.
04:40It's like a jigsaw puzzle.
04:42That one thing that fits to complete the whole picture,
04:45that last piece belongs to Sarah.
04:48And then they get together, get married and have a child.
04:52So his life with Akit is very...
04:55People say it's okay, sweet, until Anas dies.
05:00And then the relationship between Sarah and Akit dies.
05:06In this film, Aziz plays a role of a conflict between two characters.
05:13Every character must have a conflict.
05:15Aziz is a character of conflict as a story line
05:19so that it will be interesting.
05:21So how do I want to fill this character
05:24so that this story has an impact on the story line
05:27and also other related characters.
05:36A KITTY PUSH
06:00Me and my DP, this time,
06:02we try a lot of technical stuff to differentiate between moments like this.
06:05A lot of thoughts are color palette, lighting, harsh light, soft light.
06:09Shooting also uses two sets of different lens.
06:11Based on different scenes, based on different mood, we change the lens.
06:14In terms of technique, I like to try new things.
06:17In all my films, there must be one or two shots that look technical.
06:21Like you have to craft it, you have to plan for it.
06:24So this time, the idea was very simple.
06:26It's just a go-around battle, a 360 shot,
06:30and then with some CG on the face and this and that.
06:32I hope it's a different type of visual entertainment for you all.
06:41Special makeup this time, I wanted things to look genuine.
06:44I wanted things to look good.
06:45He's about 50, 60 years old.
06:47Just add a couple of synthetic skins on the face.
06:50The most difficult one is the 80-year-old one.
06:52That one took 7 hours, we thought 5 hours.
07:03This is the end between the father and the son,
07:06between the brother and the father.
07:09Action.
07:11Action.
07:13Action.
07:16No more reading.
07:26In River City, the physical demands are not too high,
07:31but it's still about running, jumping, especially running.
07:37But thank God, I just finished making another action movie
07:42that I was fit for that film.
07:44So in a way, it helped the project to enter River City.
07:56A kid fall from the bike.
07:58That was the most scary.
08:00That is the most special moment in the shoot, really scary.
08:03My heart skips, I don't know how many beats when that happens.
08:06Because it was right in front of my eyes.
08:08I was looking at the monitor and it just popped.
08:11What time and where?
08:14You need to know the time.
08:29Cut it.
08:30I think this experience is very pleasing,
08:32because I'm very humble and very grateful.
08:35Because I was able to work with a group of very talented actors.
08:40I'm very grateful to all the actors.
08:42Beto, Syikin, Hasnul, Badrida, everyone.
08:46Thank you for playing their parts.
08:59Ibu won't come back.
09:01Ibu is gone.
09:02She won't come back.
09:04She won't come back, do you understand?
09:07If I can time travel,
09:09I want to time travel to the time when I was in middle school.
09:15Because at that time, I already understood a bit about life.
09:19And at that time, my mum was still alive.
09:22So I can do better, I can appreciate her.
09:25And then I can, you know, serve her better.
09:28If I turn back time,
09:31I want to go back to the time when my grandmother was still alive.
09:38And I want to spend more time with her.
09:43I'm happy where I am now.
09:45I believe the journey itself made me who I am now.
09:49So I embrace every little, every experience that I had.
09:54But I don't want to live that anymore.
10:01When I look back at my career, of course there are moments that I regret.
10:04But like Sarah's philosophy in this story,
10:07those mistakes, those regrets made me who I am today.
10:10So even though I regret it, I don't think I want to relive that.
10:14Because I am who I am, we have to look forward.
10:16What if I travel back and I settle back that problem?
10:19Who knows what kind of person I will become today?
10:22So I feel like we just accept it, God will plan everything.
10:26We just play our part, do our job.
10:31He knows he can't do this.
10:34I know, I know.
10:36It's a tragic love story.
10:39And it teaches us to accept our fate.
10:43And we can't fight fate, we can't fight fate.
10:47We have to accept it, and life has to move on.
10:50Something new for the audience.
10:52I am sure everyone is going to love it.
10:56This time when I wanted to do this project with Versi,
10:58I feel very grateful.
11:00Because the purpose of doing this film with Versi,
11:03it's not just for box office success, commercial success.
11:06Because me and my investors, we have agreed that
11:09of course we hope this story will box office.
11:11But more importantly, they want to support me to do something new.
11:15Something that I have not done before.
11:17This time I shoot this story, I try to make it more slow tempo.
11:21There are a lot of new challenges for me to do this time.
11:24That's why I hope for all the audience,
11:26if you like my previous films,
11:29this time when you watch this film, you have to relax.
11:33This is my new challenge in this new genre.
11:36I hope the audience will like it.
11:49Finally.
11:516am.
11:53Are we done?
11:55Yeah!
11:57After 33 shooting days, about 6 weeks of shoot,
12:00I thank you everybody.
12:01Thank you for your hard work.
12:03Versi is a wrap!