We round up the actors behind the finest Hindi language performances of 2021 - Vicky Kaushal, Taapsee Pannu, Sidharth Malhotra, Sanya Malhotra, Samantha Prabhu and Adarsh Gourav speak to Anupama Chopra about coping with a difficult year, scenes that tested their calibre and what's in store for them next. Location Courtesy: JW Marriott, Juhu JW Marriott Mumbai Juhu is an iconic five star hotel overlooking the sparkling Arabian Sea where luxury meets glamour. That’s the JW treatment! 00:00 - FC brings you the much anticipated roundtable - Best Performances of 2021 00:55 - The actors pick a scene they did in 2021 that they’re proud of 15:58 - How actors deal with stardom, and still perform to their best ability 18:52 - Sanya Malhotra on getting consumed by her social media 19:42 - How authentic are the actors on social media? 21:06 - “Once a star, you’re a star� - Vicky Kaushal 22:58 - Adarsh Gourav wants to continue to prep for roles as a regular guy 27:55 - Vicky Kaushal on Adarsh’s performance in The White Tiger 28:53 - Maintaining the ‘persona’ of an actor & a star 31:27 - “We’re not bots, we’re also human beings� - Taapsee Pannu 33:34 - Samantha Ruth Prabhu on building the strength to cope with social media bashing 36:12 - Are Taapsee & Samantha working together in the future? 36:42 - Ever said no to a project because of the larger messaging behind it all? 41:57 - Where does the industry need to do more work, when it comes to gender equality? 43:28 - “With OTT, the playing field is getting equal� - Samantha Ruth Prabhu 45:08 - “I want to be the hero from the first frame� - Taapsee Pannu 46:58 - “Growing up, it was so difficult to find a female character that we could relate to� - Sanya Malhotra 47:24 - When do we come to a point where we can have a leading male actor play a supporting role in a leading female actor’s film? 48:53 - “One should be cast for their performance, not what you are offscreen� - Sidharth Malhotra 50:23 - Sanya raises a question about the stereotypical ‘hero ki girlfriend’ role 51:20 - Vicky believes in having his roles to be a mixed bag of choices 54:48 - Do the guys get offered the ‘heroine ka boyfriend’ roles? 56:01 - The comparison of an artist’s anxiety between a theatre release & OTT release 59:11 - Have you ever fallen out of love with acting? 59:30 - “As a kid, I was a compulsive liar� - Adarsh Gourav 1:00:57 - Taapsee doesn’t enjoy being on sets when she’s not convinced about something 1:01:28 - Vicky questioned his profession while watching his college peers succeed 1:02:10 - Sanya left her job as a dance teacher to move to Mumbai 1:02:52 - In 2022, I’m looking forward to… 1:08:52 - Sidharth’s curious about the Hollywood way of things #VickyKaushal #SamanthaPrabhu #SidharthMalhotra #TaapseePannu #SanyaMalhotra #AdarshGourav Edited by: Newel Mathew Sailesh Production team: Sneha Menon Desai, Tanvi Ajinkya, Vinisha Tauro, Vir Suryawansshi, Rahul Chaudhary DOP: Indrajeet Deshmukh Associate DOP: Vilay Verma Sound: Pravin Sharma, Atul Omprakash Sharma Design: Yash Tambe, Aashish Verma Social Media: Taarini Balsara Have you subscribed to Film Companion yet? Join us here - http://bit.ly/FCsubscribe Follow Us On: https://www.facebook.com/filmcompanion https://www.twitter.com/filmcompanion http://instagram.com/filmcompanion The Film Companion is a web channel intended to promote Indian cinema through films review, interviews, discussions, video essays and analytical compilations. It is intended primarily for the purpose of encouraging informed discussions, criticism and review of cinema and towards such purpose the programs use short extracts of cinematograph films, sounds recording and photographic works. These clips and extracts are of a minimal nature and the use is not intended to interfere in any manner with their commercial exploitation of the complete work by the owners of the copyright. The use of works are in compliance with the fair dealing exception provided under Sec. 52 of the Copyright Act, and we assert our use of the works under the exception provided for criticism and review.

• published: 06 Dec 2021
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