'I wish he would win all the awards'

When was the first time you were approached to make a film about your life?

- Murtuza Iqbal

Shoojit Sircar and I were on a podcast. After the podcast, we became friends. Then COVID came, and we had conversations. During this process, we became really good friends, and from 'director sir', Shoojit became a dear friend. And for him, from 'Arjun Sen', I became 'Arjun Da'. After that, one day, randomly, Shoojit reached out to me and talked about how he wants to make a movie about my life. Initially, I brushed it off, laughing, because I had never watched a movie. The very fact that you're talking to a director does not mean that there's a movie. That's when Shoojit convinced me that this is an every-person story, which will relate to people, and there were some fascinating people in my life, the same people who supported me. For me, the dealmaker was when he said, 'Arjun da, sometimes you're funny. I really liked that. And the rest is history.

Before I Want To talk, did any other filmmaker approach you to make a film?

No. Just to be very clear, I never saw a movie being made about my life. It was never in my subconscious, on my bucket list, or in my vision anywhere. I was living my life in my corner of the world, going through every day. I'm so glad Shoojit chose to make the movie.