Mumbai: In an exclusive conversation with the cast and creators of the series "Khauf," where Monika Panwar, Rajat Kapoor, and Smita Singh discussed their project. They explored themes of fear, morality, and psychological horror, highlighting the show's unique approach. They also shared their personal fears and how the series challenges stereotypes, particularly in portraying women beyond traditional roles. They emphasized the importance of creative freedom and the impact of OTT platforms on storytelling.
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00:00Sir, first of all, you should go to the three of us.
00:03If we talk about fear, what is your inner fear?
00:10There is something that is happening.
00:12Let me tell you what it is.
00:15What is your inner fear?
00:18To lose a love once.
00:23We know each other so well.
00:26Let me tell you what fear is.
00:28Their fear is as a writer to have a blank sheet of paper and it remains blank.
00:35That is their fear.
00:36And Monica, fear is that you will not get good work.
00:41We are so good to know each other.
00:43We are so good to know each other.
00:45We are so good to know each other.
00:48If we talk about fear, fear taps into fear.
00:51So do you think that Indian audiences are truly ready for such psychological thrillers,
00:56we are so good to know each other.
00:58We are so good to know each other.
01:00We are so good to know each other.
01:02Is there any form?
01:04I am wrong, I must be a new Zenпan calendar.
01:05?
01:08So yes, there is a way to think about the movies.
01:09Why is it so good to know the movie now Bur High Wow is a good job.
01:10I is a good job.
01:11I am convinced it is a good job has aitive job has come out today.
01:12superficial chills or thrills
01:13and other things
01:14that you have made
01:15a horror
01:17which you have made
01:19a lot of things
01:20that you have made
01:22when you are engaged
01:24people are made
01:26a place of your life
01:27so this is not the way
01:29Hollywood has been called elevated horror
01:32which has been many things
01:33such as racism
01:35gender violence
01:36and family dynamics
01:38and society
01:40society toxicity tackle
01:42so I think up time
01:43that we have to make that we have a rooted Indian horror
01:47which is only symbolic level
01:50but it is engaging, character oriented
01:54or contemporary that we have to make.
01:56A lot of dark and edgy content is pepping out
02:01in the series.
02:02There are many suspense, thrillers,
02:04many things that are happening.
02:05So what is the fear that
02:08it is trendy and psychological thrillers.
02:11One thing is that
02:14for people to like to enjoy
02:17some basic things that look like.
02:21I think that all things are in fear.
02:23The other thing is that
02:24crime is a visceral form of horror.
02:27It is a depth and a depth of horror.
02:31Where crime and these stories
02:34can speed up to one quarter,
02:35and it can reach one otherORD.
02:37Because whatever you felt like the fear,
02:39whatever you feel, whatever you're in fear,
02:40whatever you are in danger,
02:42whatever, that you're in danger,
02:43whatever you're doing,
02:44they all are from your own.
02:45And that's the primary fear,
02:46which is in horror,
02:47may be.
02:48So, I think this genre is something that can go too far.
02:51We haven't started.
02:52Sir, it deals with fear and morality, so have you ever had to have to compromise for
03:03a role that you have not wanted to do so, then you have to do it?
03:09No, not really.
03:10I have been lucky and I don't do much work.
03:13I do one or two things in a year, so yes, I have been choosy and I have mostly said no
03:20two things that I didn't want to do.
03:22Honestly, I might have done one or two things that I didn't want to do, but I ended up doing.
03:27Monika ji, you should know that your character in Khov breaks several moral boundaries.
03:32So did you ever feel uncomfortable with the choices you make in the series and do you personally
03:40disagree with any of them?
03:41With the choices that the character made?
03:43The character.
03:44No, I think I am very proud of her, the choices she has made.
03:50It is almost like she is starting from the point jahan pe she doesn't know about her
03:57strength also.
03:58And she knows about her frailties or the weakness actually and she is moving towards the weakness
04:04to strength and she will come to know a lot about it.
04:07And I think this whole thing of like moving forward and to know about things and just to get away
04:14from her past and renew whatever she has.
04:21I think she stands for that.
04:26So I think I am very proud of her choices.
04:28Can we say that your role in Khov might be seen as glorifying revenge or vigilant justice?
04:34I think when we have been shot and everything has been shot, so I think I can say this very
04:41firmly that we haven't done anything, not just with my character, all the other characters.
04:48We have neglected all the superfluous things.
04:51So, the way we can go into naturalism or realism, the way we can talk about personal instincts.
05:00So, I think glorify or instant things that you can take away from the audience is not in our dictionary.
05:12It's more of like a slow cooking.
05:15When you have some things that come in the morning, when it comes in the morning,
05:19it's more of like a slow cooking.
05:24So, I think we are dependent on that as such.
05:29You can tell people quickly that it's a horror or something, you know.
05:33So, I don't think so.
05:35It's glorifying something or revenge or horror or something.
05:39I don't think so.
05:40So, I don't relate to this word as such.
05:43Monika Ji, you have one more question.
05:45You have intense characters played before.
05:48So, this character is pushing actors to take more disturbing roles just for a shock value?
05:59Disturbing roles?
06:00Yeah.
06:01No, no, I don't think so.
06:03I don't think so disturbing is the right word actually.
06:06But, of course, I think that you have a broad spectrum.
06:12You can show your skills that you have.
06:18And the way the characters are written.
06:21So, I don't think so.
06:22It's just about playing the intense role.
06:25But, you can play any intense role in a light way, I think.
06:32So, I don't think so.
06:34It's just about that.
06:36Smita Ji, do you think that the audience is getting desensitized to darker stories?
06:44And the fear of feeling that appetite rather than challenging it?
06:47That's such a nice question.
06:49No, if I make an exploitative thing, I don't think I can do it.
06:56If I make an exploitative thing, I don't think I can do it.
06:58If I make an exploitative thing, I don't think that the horror is also a good thing.
07:03I don't think that the audience is a good thing.
07:08I think it's okay if they do it, but in this show there's nothing like that.
07:13In this show there's no appetite for someone to feed someone.
07:17But I think that for the engagement, you've always asked for violence,
07:22or for the disturbing content, this is a great challenge for many shows.
07:27But I think that this is a reaction, this is a backlash.
07:31Because we had so much safe and domesticated things,
07:37and I've seen it in time, so people have more appetite.
07:40And without exploiting it, you can create a dark story.
07:43It's not that you can feed yourself,
07:47but you can also create your own mood,
07:49that you want to create a dark story.
07:51And you can create it in this time.
07:53Rajeshit Ji, if you want to know something about OTT trends against,
07:58or if you want to know something about OTT trends,
08:01then suddenly you're crying,
08:03what makes you the way to this?
08:06Yeah, OTT trends,
08:11because
08:13these people are interviewing me,
08:16I'm like, how do you think about them?
08:18But
08:21I still say and I've said that
08:24for independent films it's not a very good time,
08:27because the platforms work in a certain way,
08:30and they have their own strategy,
08:31their own algorithms which they follow,
08:33which may not be the wisest way of making stuff,
08:36but that's what they do.
08:38On the other hand,
08:40in terms of series,
08:43in terms of shows,
08:44there have been many good shows,
08:46which the kind of things that were not being made earlier.
08:49Coff is an example of that.
08:51And that is being done,
08:52maybe not very often,
08:54not all the time,
08:55but definitely once in a while,
08:57once or twice a year,
08:58something new,
09:00new in the way of its making also,
09:04not just in terms of ideas.
09:06Something new comes that
09:09changes and pushes the boundary a little bit,
09:11you know.
09:12So yeah,
09:13so OTT platforms have contributed to that.
09:16And as an actor,
09:17I've done many films
09:19in the mainstream cinema also,
09:21and I'm not a fan of mainstream cinema also.
09:23But when I'm acting,
09:24I don't see that.
09:27I look at the role
09:28and the possibility of that role.
09:31So being an actor yourself,
09:33and I have all the questions,
09:35what is most carrier
09:36to your failure at the box office
09:38or losing creative control?
09:41Losing creative control?
09:43Yeah.
09:44But the actor has so much creative control
09:46It doesn't happen.
09:47It doesn't happen.
09:48It doesn't happen.
09:50I mean...
09:52So what is the sense of fear?
09:53The sense of failure
09:55has never been a bother to me at all.
09:58And also the...
10:00How you define failure
10:01is probably not how I define failure.
10:04Failure is not box office numbers.
10:06Failure is your failure
10:09to achieve what you tried to do.
10:11That is failure.
10:12Because if in making a film
10:13and writing a script,
10:15you have an idea
10:16and if you reached that idea
10:17to a satisfying level,
10:18you're a success.
10:20It doesn't matter
10:20what happens to it after that.
10:23And sometimes it doesn't work.
10:25Then it doesn't work.
10:26You know.
10:27I mean,
10:28you have an intense character play.
10:32So do you think
10:33that women in Indian thrillers
10:35are finally being written
10:36beyond stereotype?
10:38Yes, I think definitely.
10:39Yes, I think definitely.
10:41Yes, for sure.
10:43I mean...
10:44Aapka...
10:45Of course, writing table
10:46itna bada gaya hai
10:47and bada ho gaya hai.
10:48And I think...
10:49sare women related roles
10:53aap bilkul...
10:55Matlab jis perspectives
10:56saa pehle dekhte the aap
10:57wo nahi hai.
10:58I mean,
10:59abhi ham logun ko...
11:00I don't think so.
11:01Ladikia, agar pere ke irdhgirdh
11:02abhi nahi nache toh itna
11:04koi farak nahi padega.
11:05You know, even if they are bad.
11:06You can see,
11:07even if they are not dancing,
11:08they don't have any dancing skills
11:10and everything.
11:11Itna kuch farak nahi padega.
11:13So,
11:14I think jis depth se likha bhi ja raha hai
11:18sab ki kahaniyan likhi ja raha hai.
11:20And I don't think so about the women only.
11:22I think the male characters also.
11:24So, jis tahi ke se story ko
11:28main matlab sara attention dhe ke likha ja raha hai.
11:31So, for all the genders it's good.
11:33Sir, aap dunohon se jana chaheng hai.
11:36Were there any movement
11:37during the making of Khawf
11:38where you felt that
11:39this might be too much
11:40for the Indian audiences?
11:41Too much kya hota hai yaar?
11:44Kya hoga hai?
11:45Too much hoga hai,
11:46too much hoga hai,
11:47bankar denghe loog.
11:48Smuch off,
11:49remote to atmi hai na.
11:49Too much kya hai.
11:50Haa to aisa kabhi laga
11:52aapko ki yeh deke ke toh off
11:54denghe loog.
11:54No,
11:55bhoh bhoh bhoh sari kharaab cheeze
11:56dikhe lagta hai,
11:57ki yeh too much hoga hai.
11:58Doh minit dekhliya,
12:00air ball hoga chalo.
12:01Bolit sehi insaan band karta hai.
12:02Kari sab kuch bhi dikha dhige.
12:04Okay.
12:05Last week kya message dhina chahenge apnei fans ko aap or kya kehenge?
12:09Bahi khauf dekhye,
12:10bhoh tati series hai.
12:11For me personally,
12:13there's a lot of thing that I do
12:15but I don't get very excited about it.
12:19This one I'm truly excited about.
12:21I think it's something that has turned out
12:24as well we imagined it would.
12:27You should always start from this.
12:29And then this one.
12:31The next one.
12:32Message to the audience.
12:34Message to the audience.
12:35The same message.
12:37That he doesn't like much
12:39and he's like this.
12:40You better trust him.
12:41He has more traction than me.
12:42Please trust.
12:43He has more traction than me.
12:44I think horror genre mein
12:46hum luk bhoot samay ke baad kuch asa
12:48psychological horror mein tap in kar rahe hai.
12:51So I think for that you should watch it.