EXCLUSIVE: Satish Kaushik played vital role in getting award show to change ‘Best Comedian’ category to ‘Best Comic Actor’-Watch LAST interview

Satish Kaushik was one of the most talented and incredible actors who always won hearts with his comic timing. Over the years, Satish Kaushik appeared in many movies and kept fans entertained. Not just an actor, but he was also a director. Satish’s untimely demise two days ago left the entire nation in shock.

A week before his death, the legendary actor sat down for an exclusive interview with Bollywood Bubble and had opened up on how comic actors are now being taken seriously. The late actor had also revealed how he played a big role in getting an award show to change their category from ‘Best Comedian’ to ‘Best Comic Actor’.

Satish Kaushik recalls an interesting story

Satish Kaushik, who was promoting his upcoming show Pop Kaun at that time, told us, “Comedy karna aasan nahin hota. Dusri baat yeh hai ki joh aapne pehle sawaal pucha tha na ki waqai mein humare Hindustan ke andar, cinema mein bhi, comedian ko comedian mana jaata hai, actor nahin mana jaata. Yeh comedian hain. What is this? Comedian se better actor ho nahin sakta. Bade bade hero kaam nahin kar sakte (Comedy ain’t easy. The second thing is in India, even in cinema, comedians are considered comedians, not considered as an actor. This is a comedian. What is this? There cannot be a better actor than a comedian. Even big heroes can’t work)”

He added, “Ek humare time mein aisa logon ka hota tha Johny Walker bhai ya apna Mehmood bhaijaan inn logo se hero ghabrate the. Inke saath kaam nahi karte the. Mehmood bhaijaan ko hero se jyada paise milte the aapko pata hai? Kishore Kumar inko jyada paise milte the. Humare yaha comedian ko waqai hi ek side kick bana diya gaya hai. Log uspe haste the. Aap koi bhi public mein hero ya villain ko nahi kahega ki aaaa this that, lekin comedian crowd mein hota tha toh aapko aisa lagta tha. Aur dusra kyunki filmmakers bhi comedian bolte the, actors koi nahin bolta tha asal mein (Once upon a time it used to be like this that Johny Walker or our Mehmood, heroes were scared of these people. They used to refuse to work with them. Mehmood used to get paid more than heroes. Even Kishore Kumar. Comedians have been reduced to be a side-kick here. People used to laugh on them. The thing is even filmmakers used to call them comedians, no one used to call them actors)”

Satish Kaushik continued, “Jabki hum Sourabh, mein, humlog toh aisi institute se aaye hai joh… hum yaha aake comedy ki joh filmo ke part ban gaye, otherwise hum, for both of us we are actors first and we did roles which had great humour. We did films which had great humour (While we, Sourabh have come from an institute. We came here and became a part of comedy movies)”

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He went on to add, “Pehle hai na filmfare mein ek award hota tha ‘Best Comedian’. Isko maine kehke change kia that it should be ‘Best Actor In A Comic Role’. Yeh karwaya tha because he’s an actor. Aur humare Hindustan mein yeh banna hona chahiye tha. Yeh pehle bhi respect nahi di gai. Humare yaha respect nahi di jaati (Earlier in Filmfare there used to an award ‘Best Comedian’. I made them change it to ‘Best Actor In Comic Role’ category. And it should have been made in our India. The respect was not given earlier also. Respect is not given)”

The actor further added that a comedian can easily pull off a serious role. “Joh comedy karta hai na, woh har genre kar sakta hai. Aur joh har genre karta hai, woh comedy nahin kar sakta,” he added (The person who does comedy, he can pull off any genre. But the person who does all genres cannot easily do comedy)”

Talking about his last upcoming show Pop Kaun, it also stars Kunal Kemmu, Rajpal Yadav, Sourabh Shukla, Johny Lever, Nupur Sanon, Chunky Panday, and Jamie Lever. The comedy show will stream on Disney Plus Hotstar from 17^th March, 2023.

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