Monday, December 23rd, 2024

Javed Jaffrey Exclusive: As long as there is a desire to do something, an artist remains alive


The brilliant actor Javed Jaffrey, who is seen in a negative role in Bhuvan Bam’s web series ‘Taza Khabar Season 2’, is once again in the news. Javed, who makes fans laugh with his/her comedy, will now be seen on screen in his/her scary avatar. he/she has spoken openly about his/her career and OTT experience.

Bollywood actor Javed Jaffrey has spent a long time in the film industry. he/she has also been very popular on TV. These days he/she is in the news for his/her web series ‘Taza Khabar Season 2’ on OTT. Recently, in a conversation with presswire18 Times, he/she answered questions about his/her career, his/her innings on OTT and life as an artist as well as his/her personal life.You have been winning everyone’s heart through comedy for a long time. So when you entered a new world, OTT was a different kind of experience, how was that experience?
One good thing about OTT is that people carry it around in their pockets. Someone is travelling in a bus, someone is in a train, so people can watch it anywhere. You don’t get to see this with TV and films. This is a big advantage of OTT. Secondly, like our series, you can watch it in two and a half hours at a stretch. We haven’t made a very long series either. In films, it is like if there was some more time, we would have shown it, but in OTT you are able to do justice to the actors according to the time. So it was a lot of fun working on OTT as well.

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You keep visiting Delhi, so is there any anecdote related to the capital that you would like to share?
I remember an incident from a shooting in Delhi. The shooting was going on. When the shooting happens on the road, there is a crowd. The production people are also there, so they tell the people to move back a little. Now they moved back two inches. After a while, the director angrily says, move them away, they are coming in the screen. So the production people again tell them to move back. So they moved back four inches instead of two. In such a situation, the team had to tell them again and again. So one person says in Delhi style, ‘How much more should we move back, should we leave Delhi itself’ (laughs) So I remember this incident.

You have played many different roles till now. Is there anything you feel you still have to do?
An artist has a desire to do something or the other till his/her last breath. The day that desire ends, the artist also dies. If people’s wishes and blessings remain, then we will do something new.

An artist wishes to do something or the other till his/her death, the day his/her desire ends, the artist also dies

Javed Jaffrey

You danced in the film ‘Meri Jung’. Tell us something about your dance in that film?
That was a time when I didn’t know where I wanted to go and where I was going. I didn’t know what I wanted to become. When I got an offer, I took it. I got that offer because of dance. When I went there, the choreographer at that time was Saroj ji. She called all the dancers of the industry and asked them to see this boy. She said show me what you do. I showed them. They were very graceful people. They didn’t think that we are big choreographers so what will this child teach us. So they chose my good steps and said we will use them. Then they molded them into choreography. The way Subhash Ghai sahab showed it on screen was amazing. People said that all this won’t work, we need simple dance, which people can do themselves. I said that this is what I know. So the first generation of the songs that you are watching today started from songs like that.


Your series ‘Taza Khabar Season 2’ is in a lot of discussions. Tell us something about this series?The rest of the casting for ‘Taza Khabar 2’ had been done, I was approached for my role much later. At that time I had not seen the first season of ‘Taza Khabar’, I had only seen the trailer. I liked it but for some reason I could not watch the season. When I saw the first season, I really liked it. I especially liked Bhuvan Bam’s work. I had seen him/her earlier in short video format. he/she has a very good connection with the youth.



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