Balancing Fame and Family | Ft. Pankaj Tripathi | Anupama Chopra

Riding high on the success of Stree, Pankaj Tripathi sits down for an FC Unfiltered conversation with Anupama Chopra and an audience of acting students. The actor dissects his most memorable performances in movies like Masaan, Newton, Stree & Gurgaon. He also talks to us about why acting is similar to cooking and why he will start doing “average acting” the day he realizes his co-actors are wary of his craft! Did you enjoy this session? Tell us in the comments below so we know what kind of content you like. 00:42 - Pankaj Tripathi on growing as an actor through criticism. 01:49 - On the hard work has been paid off and has your time come. 03:17 - Being aware of what's happening around. 04:22 - The moment one becomes an actor he puts up a black mirror to stay away from the world. 05:41 - Forgetting the question asked. 05:59 - Fast shopping from cotton world. 06:30 - "Akele hi aaye theyy, akele hi jaana hai" 06:55 - Being a nice cook. 07:18 - Cooking and acting is similar. 07:58 - Talking about the character Sadhya Ji in Masaan. 11:26 - After reading a script how can an actor select less on screen time role. 11:51 - Talking about the character Kehri Singh in Gurgaon. 13:34 - Working on the body language of Kehri Singh in Gurgaon. 15:28 - Talking about the character Aatma Singh in Newton. 18:02 - Director's saying whatever you feel fine you please do. 18:55 - Talking about Aadhar card dialogue in Stree. 20:44 - Becoming a scene stealer. 22:13 - Call from Mahesh Bhatt. 23:04 - Talking about anger. 23:49 - Bag filled with motivation, truth and realism is of no use. 25:01 - Your acting is your marketing 25:07 - Delhi man complimenting at the airport. 25:28 - Fans remember my character. 26:05 - Honesty and truth in acting. 29:06 - An actor is an actor and not a supporting actor. 29:48 - Love marriage and rule breaker. 30:07 - Sharing the incident of performing a pooja and getting paid in the form to watch free films in theater. 31:31 - AQ - Developing Cinema acting and working on daily soaps. 33:26 - AQ - Understanding and preparing for the character. 34:40 - AQ - Talking about his character Major Virendra Rathore in Shaurya and the challenges faced while shooting the film. 35:52 - AQ - Toughest emotion to portray on screen. 36:54 - Laughing point in one's body. 37:19 - Sharing the incident of the crying emotion on set. Have you subscribed to Film Companion yet? Join us here - http://bit.ly/FCsubscribe Visit us at http://filmcompanion.in Do Like, Share, Comment & Subscribe to our channel. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/FCsubscribe Follow Us On:   / filmcompanion     / filmcompanion     / 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 compete 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 asset our use of the works under the exception provided for criticism and review.