So what the IITs wouldn’t have her...
She’s engineered an impressive career in show biz already. She turned 33 today. Who is she?
She’s engineered an impressive career in show biz already. She turned 33 today. Who is she?
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00:00Okay.
00:02Instead of following me wherever I go, why can't you just come home and talk to me?
00:06Just a slap. But I can't do it.
01:00So I asked a lot of questions.
01:07My parents were really, really annoyed and they were like, you become a lawyer.
01:10It was always a very strategic way of going about taking the permission from the parents.
01:24My school contributed a lot in giving me those wings that I have now.
01:28They let me shape up my personality in all the fields I wanted to.
01:32Sports, education, extracurricular activities.
01:37IIT time, it was just plain heartbreak and tears and emotional sadness and all sitting in your room and brooding for days. All that happened.
02:00I really thought I was capable of getting through.
02:04So it was a slap of reality on my face.
02:08Parents coming from a typical middle class background used to be like, you know, you can't spend too much of money.
02:31You know the value of money when you earn it.
02:34So I thought, OK, let's just earn it then. Let's just see how it is when you earn it.
02:38When I started acting, it was a big shocker for me that this is not about looking good or wearing good clothes and mouthing the lines just like that.
03:03It is so much more and so difficult.
03:08It is so much more and so difficult.
03:38From South to Bollywood was again very unplanned.
03:52It's like how South happened in a very unplanned way that I got a call and I just thought, OK, let's just try it out.
04:08It's like how South happened in a very unplanned way that I got a call and I just thought, OK, let's just try it out.
04:38My choice of roles actually derived from my need to watch such films and such characters on screen, which again, it was not like I just suddenly came into the industry and I realized, wow, this is how I'm going to be.
04:53It happened actually after Pink where I realized that people have really taken me back home as Meena Laroda and I felt that they resonated with me, the character I portrayed and the subject that was discussed in the film so much that I stayed with them for a longer time than just walking out of the film and moving ahead in life.
05:17So that made me feel that I want this. I want to stay with my audience for a longer time than just the duration of the film.
05:47Fearlessness comes from the fact that this is not the be all and end all of life feel that I think I'll be happier to live with a spine. So without spine, I think it's very difficult to live.
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