Maybe she fell in love with Akshay sir’s character because she has never gotten attention. That is his intellect! If there’s a certain change of heart by the end of it, I think it’s okay. He’s living with his father, working with his father. Bhumi’s character falls for him soon after). Yes, followed by him gaslighting her (after stalking her for days, Akshay Kumar’s character tells her he is the best partner she can get, that she just can’t see it yet. There was this controversy that he was stalking her.
As actors, it’s only that much you can do. Toilet.has also been criticized for its treatment ( of gender roles). They love me! I am the queen of heartland cinema! In rural, smaller parts, I am the Toilet. Have you been to any small towns? What has the reaction been like? I have tried to make sure that everything I do entertains people. But that doesn’t fit into my boundaries of morals. I have had a choice of doing commercial movies that have gone on to become enormous hits. Was it a conscious idea to pick roles that speak strongly for women ? It’s great that I am stereotyped in such a way and not the other way. I play a small-town girl (in several movies) but they are all very different from each other. Then Dum Laga Ke Haisha happened.Īfter ‘Dum Laga Ke Haisha’, it’s almost like you were typecast as this small-town spunky woman. But I realized I’m meant to do greater things. I’d become comfortable in what I was doing. I said, I know I am but I’d lost the confidence to accept it. She said one day, who are you fooling? You are an actor. It was something I genuinely enjoyed and something that paid me very well for someone my age. I had never told Shanoo Sharma (the casting director at YRF) I wanted to be an actor. When were you selected for ‘Dum Laga Ke Haisha’? I was 18!ĭid the people you would audition take you seriously?
I worked very hard but I had no idea what I was doing. Once I started working in YRF, I realized that’s what I wanted to do. That’s when someone told me, in Yash Raj Films (YRF) they are looking for an assistant casting director. I was like, my father is p****d off, my mum trusted me and I f****d up. I am glad I was thrown out because that day, I was shaken. They are only sitting and eating vada pav. In Bombay in (classes) XI and XII, nobody studies. I started working within a year and a half of being thrown out of Whistling Woods. The beauty of it is, I took an education loan. My mom and her friend took the form for me. So you signed up for (Subhash Ghai’s film school) Whistling Woods at 15? He comes from an environment where everything is unidimensional. Uh, yes! He wanted me to be an IFS (Indian foreign services) officer too. It was something I was born with, I think.ĭid your father want you to do the conventional STEM streams? My mom would dress me up for photo shoots, we would have the sessions to click pictures. I always had a natural inclination to the performing arts. Tell me about the time you first thought of wanting to be an actor. I can do my job and I hope it shapes up the way it has been promised. But creatively how it’s treated is not in my hands.
The film has a lot of emotion and thought. There’s a certain kind of commercial jargon that works. There’s also that double entendre-“Kar diya uska ?" “Kaam, aur kya?"-in the trailer. But it’s not what the entire film is like ya. What happened after the first narration, I literally only know what happens with my character arc.īut you would want to know what you are signing up for. I wouldn’t be part of a film that would be lewd.Īs a character, I didn’t want to know what’s happening in my husband’s life. Most of the people associated with the film do not belong to this thought process. As far as the certain dialogue (in the trailer, Kartik Aaryan’s character says “If you trick your wife into sex, they call you a rapist") is concerned, I think the makers realized (the mistake) and they rectified it.