“I said, it’s not the 37th year… I’ll go myself” |

• Let’s start from the beginning, from Ceyranbatan. In other words, you can be born in Jeyranbatan, but a person is not from Jeyranbatan, he comes there from somewhere, because it was created later as a settlement.
• It was established in 1959. My father lived in Baku since 1947, and we are originally from Yardimli. Later he moved to Ceyranbatana. They went and brought my mother from the homeland, they were relatives, and then I was there. Five child we have been, my sister passed away at the age of 18, and then my brother in Karabakh martyr it happened, now we are one sister, two brothers.
• So I see, did not come from the family inclination to art?
• My mother was going to a tailoring course, it was somewhere in the mid-70s. I used to go with him, there was also a theater club in the same place. 8-10 I would be old. I was waiting for my mother, watching the exercises. Then we bought a house opposite the House of Culture. I went to music school there. At school, we staged the lessons we had in literature classes. Teacher Narin and teacher Solmaz conducted such a lesson. They taught monologues from works. I studied literature, history and geography in high school, I don’t know what mathematics and physics are. One day, we had a creative argument with the late teacher Solmaz, I said, the children are not saying the poem correctly, that’s not right, he said stop, let’s see. I also said the monologue of happy Alexander. There was a moment of silence, everyone was affected. After that, the teacher did not ask me for a lesson, but made me prepare a poem and a monologue. Once the students of the University of Arts prepared a play at our school, they also gave me a role, I was very happy. They gave me money from home to buy buns at school, I collected them and bought a ticket to the theater. I used to come alone, go to the city, to the cinema, to the theater. University I came to the teahouse, Firudin Maharramov was one of the students who put on a play, I was coming with him. In 1984, I finished school and submitted my documents to the University of Arts. In the second year, I failed to write, I was graded in my specialty and failed to write. Military after the service, I came to the exam again, I failed again. My uncle was wealthy, he told me to find someone and talk to him, but I didn’t let him. My uncle wanted us education let’s buy I said I will go there myself. I sat down Azerbaijan I prepared from language, studied grammar. In 1988, there was “People’s University” under the University of Arts, I went there, it was 2 years, I studied directing, I worked in the evening department, at the factory. There Farewell Hasanov was my teacher. I was accepted in 1989 of the university to himself. My uncle gave me a gift of 2 thousand manats, I went and traveled around Russia. I was studying in the 4th year, Jannat Salimova was creating the “Camera Theater”, they said if you play here, I said, of course. I acted for the first time in “Skapenin Kaleyi”.
• I remember that show…
• I was studying and working in that theater. I worked at the Camera Theater until I joined the Young Audience Theater.
• You had good roles. I saw Othello and Aesop in the Chamber Theater.
• The theater was a theater, and the repertoire was rich. I also played Khudayar Bey there.
• Yes, the first time I hated you was in the role of Mr. Khudayar, and the last time in the movie “Sugra and Boys”. There is one issue that you created different characters in the Camera Theater. Jannat Hanim does not specialize in one character, but draws in every character. You played both negative and positive roles. You can say that there is no negative or positive image, but I think there is. As in life, there are negative and positive (good and bad) people on stage. Now the directors have started molding you.
• Yeah… I’m not in the movies much. This is my first big role in a professional movie. There was also one “Until the last breath”. Karabakh on the subject. These are events that have been given an artistic solution. I have appeared in two Georgian feature films Karabakh is the subject. Iran–Azerbaijan I have appeared in two joint films. I have not appeared in a state film. He is not a negative character in other films. In a movie “Sugra and Sons” it is.
• I say in the series. Rovshan Isaac saw you like that.
• In serials, yes, but he is a thief, he is in every village and city. I also played the father’s crooked son in a TV series. I was a romantic hero in “The Last Chapter”.
• The series is like that, you watched it, it’s gone, you don’t remember it.
• Yes, but there is one problem. In my 22 years of theater experience, they didn’t recognize me anywhere except “Torgov”, but after appearing in 2 serials, they recognized me everywhere except “Torgov”. Serials bring popularity. He was also a negative character in “The Treasure Tree”. All the serials I shot were well-maintained.
• How is the situation with the feature film from that point of view, are you invited or declined?
• There is also a refusal, the fee is not satisfactory.
• How did it happen in “Sugra and the boys”?
• Ilgar Najaf is very good from that point of view.
• How did you see yourself as an outside audience in that film?
• It didn’t affect me.
• Did you play poorly? I was thankful you weren’t around when I watched the movie.
• It is a phenomenon that happened in all regions in those times. The heads of the collective farms were the owners of the villages. Barat is one of them. He is a morally damaged person. They were the officials of that time, I once listened to one of them live when I was filming in one of the regions. Somewhere he was 90 years old, he revealed everything himself. Those dates should be opened and shown.
• Have you ever regretted leaving the Theater of Young Audiences?
• It is a long time ago. I reacted like a human being to what was happening in the society, I saw that they called a meeting in the theater because of me, I said it’s not the 37th year, there’s no need, I’ll go myself. Even now I am like that, I can’t be indifferent, I express my attitude, I suffer the damage.
• Even if you win as an individual, you lose as an individual, today you are needed on the stage of that theater, you are also needed on that stage.
• This is my destiny, my life. I’m not saying I did right or wrong. Of course, there is a certain disappointment, but maybe I will do it again in the future. If they say to do it, let life get in the way, maybe I won’t do it.
• Maybe I will?
• Perhaps. I don’t know when, where or what I will do. Maybe there will be an event that I can’t be indifferent to, I will say a more harsh opinion. Maybe I’ll keep quiet. It’s life, I can’t diagnose it, I can’t frame it.
• Character or diagnosis? Maybe impatience?
• Sometimes they tell me that you are a very patient person. Every time has its own judgment. These are 10 it was a year ago, anyway, I’m not the same person. 10 I haven’t been to the Young Spectators’ Theater in years, but recently I went to the performance of Mrs. Zemfira Abdulsamadova. There were also happy children…
• Are there those who are afraid that he will return suddenly?
• I don’t know, there were a couple of incidents. Then I went to Mehriban Khanum’s performance.
• Suddenly an invitation came from there?
• I’m going to say that the management and environment of 10 years ago have changed. The lights of the facade of the theater are still not lit at night. The lights of all the buildings in the center of the city are on, but the lights of the facade of the theater building are not on, they do not turn on, so we owe it to the light. In the center, the light of the culture hearth is always on, calling people from afar. It’s not up to me, I can’t help but comment on that. They say, why do you need it, come on.
• Now Farewell You work at Hasanov’s theater, how is the situation here?
• Let us at least work here…
• )))) Great answer.
• The main thing is that there is creativity, there is an environment, we are still building it, let’s see how it turns out. We can build what we want, we can prepare the show we want. If not, put on such a play, let such an actor or actress play, and you stand next to him… that’s not art. I worked in many places, created a theater, I saw that it doesn’t work, administrative issues are not for me. The creative side will not fail, but the technical issues will. I can’t even stay outside the theater. We participated in the festival of private theaters with the “Lachin” theater studio, but we could not continue. They used my name as an opponent, in Azerbaijan this word is a word of condemnation. The theater itself is an opposition, it is a mirror of the society, it should show what is right and wrong.

PS I didn’t dwell too much on the film “Sugra and Boys”, because my next interlocutor is the director of that film, Ilgar Najaf.

Ramila Gurbanli

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