Sledging makes things interesting. There are no ROBOTS playing. They are HUMANS who want to perform well for the country. So when STAKES are so high, emotions will TAKE over. Sometimes sledging gets the BEST out of you.
EVERYBODY who's been fired has heard before about the PROBLEMS they have. They just don't KNOW it's that SERIOUS. Once you know what the stakes are, you BECOME more serious.
In the public MIND, an INVESTMENTBANKER is no longer conservative; he's a RISK taker, a GAMBLER in high stakes, not to mention a thief. These people are dangerous - deliciously so.
People THINK that, when you're doing COMEDY, nothing MEANS anything, that people RUN around and act CRAZY. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
I'm always TRYING to MAKE movies that are better than the ones that we've made before. We don't always succeed at doing that by any MEANS, but we're always trying to raise the stakes, raise the bar, make the movies better, and that's hard.
On 'Grey's,' if you have a BADDAY as a doctor, you LOSE a patient. But what's CRAZY about 'Station 19' is if you have a bad day as a firefighter, the patient dies, or you DIE, or your partner dies. It's a whole other level of stakes.
In Bombay people know me as a Rituparno Ghosh actor but Calcutta gives me the COMFORTZONE and that's why I love SHOOTING here. In Bombay, the MONEY is bigger, the STAKES are bigger.
Every film that GETS made, and I'm not just talking about 'Star Wars,' I'm talking about Marvel, DC, every tent pole film - they seem to just keep GETTINGBIGGER and bigger and bigger and bigger. The WORLDS get bigger, the stakes get bigger.