Nikkhil Advani’s Mumbai Diaries is again and is getting praised for its portrayal of the 2005 Mumbai Floods. The collection continues a number of months after the occasions of the primary season, with the Bombay Basic Sanatorium personnel going through a recent array of stumbling blocks because of an afternoon of relentless rainfall. Within the collection, you’re going to as soon as once more see acquainted faces equivalent to Konkona Sen Sharma, Mohit Raina, Tina Desai, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Satyajeet Dubey, Natasha Bharadwaj, Mrunmayee Deshpande, and Prakash Belawadi, all reprising their roles from the primary season. Moreover, the brand new season will introduce new forged individuals, together with Parambrata Chattopadhyay and Riddhi Dogra.

In an unique dialog with Filmfare, Mohit Raina, Tina Desai, Satyajeet Dubey, Natasha Bharadwaj and Mrunmayee Deshpande, percentage their revel in of running with Nikkhil Advani, taking pictures scenes in water, whilst additionally sharing insights about their characters.

This season is according to the 2005 Mumbai floods, are you able to percentage in regards to the filming procedure

Satyajeet Dubey: Because it used to be bodily so difficult we needed to be on our feet at all times nevertheless it used to be nice. However there may be new finding out, I’ve learnt the right way to act underwater. I be afflicted by sinus and thus confronted numerous issues acting the ones photographs however I suppose that’s one thing you need to undergo to get the process completed proper.

Mrunmayee Deshpande: I simplest confronted the problem of finding out the scientific time period issues.

Mohit Raina: At first I got rid of my specifications and stored them within the bag, so I wouldn’t have to time and again wipe them. I’ve at all times stored one thing on most sensible of my head, in order that I may talk. Those are a few things that you just be told at the pass however all and all it used to be a distinct revel in for all people. I additionally learnt there’s no use of dressed in the footwear, if truth be told at the first day I wore them I used to come back out and dry them however then I realised how again and again will I do that. and so I began dressed in slippers.

Mrunmayee Deshpande: And , Nikkhil sir took lengthy takes. When any person is acting one surgical procedure, any person is coming with new sufferers. So, you need to be in your mark at all times. You might have to concentrate on what’s happening round you and be able to provide your response on time.

What have been a few of your own prep paintings for this season?

Mrunmayee: Script used to be the whole thing for me in my view. See you need to carry out surgical procedures and the trouble stage used to be higher, so we needed to redo our scientific workshops, we had to bear in mind all of the scientific phrases and we needed to get it proper.

Tina Desai: I had numerous stuff to do as a result of my persona is pregnant on this season and so I needed to a) perceive what it is love to behave generally whilst pregnancy, b) the right way to really feel the discomfort in a automobile, and likewise for the reason that observe continues with additional headaches and what precisely is going on mentally? What is going on bodily? How does one transfer in such an atmosphere? Fortuitously, my neighbour who is been via an excessively an identical state of affairs, so I used to be ready to get, like, reside, actual, testimony of what can occur but additionally I wore the prosthetic stomach and I walked round the home simply to look the way it feels to sit down and stand, and it is very creepy. As a result of it is manufactured from silicon, it is in reality uncomfortable and it sticks on your frame.

Mohit, what mindset did you pass in whilst filming Farzaana’s operation scene, when your persona, Dr. Kaushik Oberoi freezes within the ER?

So, Nikkhil sir had known as me to the place of work and sat with me and defined to me, what he’s anticipating from Kaushik Oberoi and he had instructed me very obviously that, ‘it is a man who’s a workaholic, who has been running for such a lot of years and works 22 hours an afternoon and now there’s a hole of 9 months, he has now not labored for the ones many hours, so you wish to have to take into account that it is a one that is making an attempt to comeback, he isn’t assured now, he has forgotten the whole thing, he’s on the backfoot, you spot how you wish to have to move about it,’ so, thankfully for me as a result of, within the first season I used to be now not ready to avoid wasting Mr. Kelkar, the ones visuals have been very recent in my thoughts, so whilst filming that scene I did not need to do an excessive amount of, I simplest had to bear in mind the ones visuals from the primary season and that in reality helped in that scene. Remaining night time, I noticed that scene and it in reality got here out fantastically. Because of Malay Prakash, our DOP (Director of Photos) the best way he has performed with the sunshine and the digital camera as a result of whilst filming I did not realise it, but if I noticed it, he has completed an implausible process.

Natasha, how did you faucet into the function of any person who simply misplaced their folks?

I feel it used to be season one, which ends up with Diya dropping her mom, which is one thing for somebody is very lifestyles changing, whilst you lose one of these sturdy pillar to your lifestyles. And extra so for Diya, as a result of her mom is the hyperlink between the daddy and Diya, so for her to grapple with that, to select up the items and herself and simply stand up, act more potent as a result of she at all times sought after to be a health care provider, she at all times sought after to avoid wasting lives, so she does not wish to deter that. So, this season, she is extra hopeful, she is making an attempt to paintings on herself, she has completed remedy, and she or he desires to maintain her anxiousness and melancholy in a wholesome approach as an alternative of taking capsules. She is making an attempt to empathise along with her father and this season she may be coping with a affected person who’s going via id problems, so when she is chatting with the affected person’s folks it is usually very healing for her and on the ultimate second Diya comes out more potent.

Let us know about your actual lifestyles 2005 Mumbai Flood revel in

Mohit: I used to be in Chembur, I used to be coming again, I had long gone there to lend a hand my nephew get admission in faculty and I were given caught in Bandra for about 3 days. There used to be no meals, all the street used to be blocked and it used to be additionally my first day within the town and so, I wasn’t in reality accustomed to the roads, so I had no different choice however to stick in a single position as a result of I did not know the place to move. Social media wasn’t there so that you in reality did not know what used to be the placement, so that you have been simplest listening to from the passerby, {that a} tree had fallen, a automobile had fallen, injuries, and other folks serving to every different. I survived the ones 3 days on Parle G biscuits, so, the ‘spirit of Mumbai’ got here and all of the other folks have been serving to every different. I do not believe that anyone must face this, however what we will be told is to lend a hand every different every time one thing like this occurs.

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