Anupam Kher aims popcorn at interviewer’s face, refuses to answer question about Tanvi the Great: ‘You haven’t watched my film’

Anupam said that they had been in conversation to set up the interview for a week, which the host denied. “There is no defence in this. You are not ready to admit that you didn’t do your job, but you still want answers from me.” When the host said that he wasn’t in talk with Anupam’s team for a week for the interview, the actor leaned back, picked up a piece of popcorn placed in a bowl on the table between them, and asked the host to open his mouth. Anupam proceeded to aim the piece of popcorn at the host’s mouth; it ricocheted and fell on the floor. Anupam continued, “First of all, you don’t have to apologise. Everyone has a different personality. I don’t postpone what I feel.”

The host said that he’d become ‘conscious’ and that he no longer felt that he was being present for the conversation, after becoming consumed by the thought that he hadn’t done a good job at research. “It is affecting me,” he said, and Anupam replied, “It is affecting you because you deserve to be affected.” He moved on from the conversation by saying that he was just pulling the host’s leg.

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A clip of the exchange was shared online on Reddit, where people reacted in the comments section. “He looks so visibly uncomfortable, genuinely feel bad for him,” one person wrote. “He handled it so well. Pyaar se apna point rakha and correct boldiya. It’s on the PR and the manager. Of course as a cinema podcast, he should have watched the film. But PRs often tell you literally last minute that something is happening. Matlab aise 15 min pehle bhi they tell journalists that they have an interview with so and so artiste. For a podcaster, it’s a big opportunity to miss it for whatever reason,” another person commented. A third person wrote, “I watched this interview and it was uneasy for Vaibhav and even me. Anupam was high handed and was a bit hostile in the way he was talking, the tension in the air that he built up like the narcissist in him was visible. He acknowledged that the team had done good research but on the other hand, he did not bother to know about the format of the interview. Vaibhav was going to explain but Anupam cut him off saying nahi nai you carry on. Anupam came with an agenda to promote his movie while the show was not about it at all. His team did not do the job to inform him that this was not a promotional interview, but a general one about his likes, dislikes and his work. For the first time, this longest interview actually did feel LONGEST. Kudos to Vaibhav to handle it well.”

In an earlier interview with Raj Shamani, Anupam said that the movie was crowd-funded by independent financiers.“I called up a few friends of mine in US and in India. We have 10 co-producers on this film. It’s basically crowd-funded. I sent them the synopsis of the film, and none of them have anything to do with films. They are businessmen, they work in banks, they are doctors. They didn’t have to (give me the money). But they said okay. I said I will return the money when the film gets released, but none of them have asked for it… You know something more interesting? All my main four cast members decided not to take money from me till I have it. Arvind Swamy, Jackie Shroff, Pallavi Joshi, Boman Irani, I went to them and said this is what has happened. I said, ‘I will pay you’, and they said, ‘Did we ask for it?’” he said.