Interview With "Kill" Star Lakshya & Director/Writer Nikhil Nagesh Bhat

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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"Kill" had its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was the First Runner Up winner for the Midnight Madness section. Director/Writer Nikhil Nagesh Bhat's bloody, action, revenge film has been described as "The Raid" meets "Snowpiercer," and the companions could not be any more true. Bhat and his leading star, Lakshya, were kind enough to spend some time talking with me about their experience making the film, how it has found an audience in the United States, what went into the fight choreography, and more. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from Roadside Attractions. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the star from the film Kill, Lakshah, and the film's director and writer, Mikil Nikesh Bhatt.
0:13.8	Happy Vatan O'estri.
0:18.0	Yes.
0:19.3	Yes!
0:36.6	Abadantar! Yes. Yes. First of all, I want to see what is this what for me to be joining you, Mikhail Lakshaya.
0:46.3	I saw this film at its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival at midnight.
0:52.3	Oh wow. Whoa. Oh my God.
0:55.0	Wow.
0:56.0	What an experience that was.
0:58.0	Seriously.
0:59.0	Thank you both of you because I love action cinema that just takes no prisoners, holds
1:04.0	nothing back.
1:06.0	And I have a couple of questions I want to get into with the production process, especially,
1:10.0	because there's so
1:12.1	much happening in this film. In such tight, close quarters, first of all, I want to know,
1:19.4	Nikiel, for you, what made you want to set this story in such a confined space, knowing that
1:26.6	this was going to be a massive challenge for yourself.
1:29.3	Yes, yes. It was a massive challenge. It was really, really an enormous challenging
1:36.1	affair to shoot a film in that close compartment. You know, I've been saying this. So this comes
1:43.0	from a personal experience where I was part of this journey, and I was on a
1:48.4	train journey in which my Adjacent coach was robbed by some 25, 30 robbers in the night.
1:57.0	And while I was sleeping, I was not there.
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