Скачать или смотреть A Conversation With Avtar Gill

Pooja sits down with the ever-unassuming yet endlessly fascinating Avtar Gill—a man who insists he’s “ordinary” despite a career spanning 350 films.

In this episode, filled with sardonic humour and candid reflections, Avtar looks back at the quiet strength of his truck driver father, jokes about being labelled Mahesh Bhatt’s third wife, and reflects on the lessons he has absorbed from greats like Dilip Kumar, Pran and Hrishikesh Mukherjee.

Along the way, he regales Pooja with stories—of the time Rishi Kapoor pranked him at midnight by pretending to be Steven Spielberg, why Sanjay Dutt pushed for a Sadak remake, when he wrote his own dialogues in Rangeela and the time he witnessed Mithun Chakraborty eat rice and salt water in a hotel suite in Malaysia.

Avtar also reveals how he has managed to look the same for decades, why he calls himself an also-ran, why he has no ego in asking for work and how, despite nearly five decades of work in the industry, he remains a labourer at heart.

Timestamps

00:00—3:47: Why Avtar Gill isn’t an ordinary man
3:47—14:04: Why Avtar won’t hesitate to jump off a building for Mahesh Bhatt
14:04—19:40: Avoiding Parveen Babi and refusing to retire
19:40—24:02: Why Sanjay Dutt wanted to do a remake of Sadak
24:03—27:00: Going to TV Studios dressed as Raavan
27:00—32:25: The gift from Dilip Kumar that Avtar has preserved
32:26—39.00: Pran’s diet advice, Amitabh’s discipline
39:00—45:30: When Rishi Kapoor pretended to be Steven Spielberg
45:30—48:15: Writing dialogues extempore on Rangeela
48:20—55:25: Revering the dead and ignoring the living
55:25—1.06.21: Why Avtar remains in a race only with himself