Bollywood: Adah Sharma talks about love, dating and new movie ‘Soulsathi’

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00:00dating and all for me not really unless I really know the person really well and

00:06he's accepted me being weird and my weirdness and

00:09you know I can continue being like I am and I don't have to mask it and be someone else

00:16I saw the trailer very interesting one I mean I can make out a bit

00:20of it you play a double role yeah it is a double role but it's

00:23a different kind of double role it's not the usual that you usually have a double role where

00:27there are twins here it's different both are me one is my body and the other is my soul so all

00:33the boys on the dates can see the body because she's well dressed and and the soul none of them

00:38can see the soul it's interesting actually it's also the portrait of like modern day courtship

00:44right where people are trying to find love or whatever so do you think the series will reflect

00:49that yeah the people will really identify with I think all the girls who've gone on blind dates or

00:54met annoying boys will really identify with it I think it's something that all people can see

01:00of all ages and they'll really enjoy it have you been on something have you ever been on a dating

01:05site which I'm told is very frustrating because I have many single friends who tell me it's like

01:10a landmine of problems the kind of I mean the problems that you have when you already

01:17know the person are also so if you don't know the person I guess no I haven't been on a

01:23dating site I don't really have the guts I don't know what it takes to to be but I have friends

01:29too and like my friends share screenshots of things with me and we like laugh it takes a lot

01:36of guts to put yourself out there also I feel I don't have that I also I get anxiety just thinking

01:42about being on a blind date with someone I don't like sitting across the table with someone I don't

01:48Do you think this movie also kind of reflects what's happening among youngsters or perhaps 20-30

01:54somethings you know especially those in cities trying to find the perfect mate yeah totally I

01:59think all the girls like I said in an arranged marriage setup also would have to meet boys it

02:03would be like this the world itself is fascinated by Indian arranged marriages and the way it

02:08functions do you think this is the topic that people are extremely fascinated about is that

02:13what drew you to the movie as well yeah I think the West is very intrigued by the concept of

02:19matchmaking I honestly I'm not averse to it if it's done I mean what is and what is a dating

02:27app if not Indian matchmaking the West they've been on dating apps right it's exactly the same

02:33it's just that here you have a human person who will get two people to meet

02:37while as on an app there's a computer program who'd get two people to meet it's the same

02:41concept in this film it's this girl who goes because her mother is insisting that she meets

02:45boys and to get married do you consider arranged marriage generally a bit archaic though in this

02:51day and age when there's everybody puts their life on social media I don't know why you end

02:55up marrying strangers do you subscribe to that theory or you think there is romance in

03:00marrying strangers when you're meeting someone on a dating app you're meeting a stranger only

03:04only then you don't know he could turn out to be a serial killer and maybe if your mother tells

03:08you to meet him she's done her background check on it he might not be a serial killer also he

03:12could be a closet serial killer I don't know so you're such a pessimist when it comes to dating

03:19by the way in case you don't know he could be one or he could be a closet

03:24he could be the love of your life also but you could be a serial killer also I'm just being a

03:32realist it's not about being a pessimist yeah it's actually a pragmatic dating and all for me

03:39not really unless I really know the person really well and he's accepted me being weird and my

03:46weirdness and you know I can continue being like I am and I don't have to mask it and be someone

03:51else tell me are you happy with where your career is heading now because you're getting movies

03:56you know that kind of puts the spotlight on you because this is an author backed role right

04:01it shines a spotlight on you it's about your young woman's journey kind of thing I've been

04:05brought up in a way where I've been taught to be happy generally so I don't keep my happiness

04:10dependent on career heading or love life or external factors because I feel like then you'd

04:15never be happy because then I'd be like okay Soul Mate, Soul Saathi is released now and it's a hit

04:19nine when is my next then I'll be happy and then when I sign three more I'll be happy then so I

04:24don't I'm generally a happy person I keep that as a separate thing as far as my career is concerned

04:29I love doing roles like these I feel like till the last year till last year I felt like only two

04:35percent of my potential was exploited in movies I have so much more I can showcase I haven't

04:41gotten the opportunity to but in the last year from when Commando 3 was out and I had my debut

04:48web series The Holiday that was another one where I got a lot of I mean I figured that people

04:53really watch good content and people like to watch fun stuff also not just a serious thing so I

05:00thought that space would be a really nice space to tap into that's why Soul Saathi is there I think

05:04it's really nice and I feel like if it's a short film or a long film whatever the medium if it's

05:09interesting I want to definitely do it and yes I'm being offered author backed roles it feels great

05:15you have managed to keep the faith alive is it I mean you don't handle rejections very personally

05:20because I ask everybody this because of the surround noise that's going on how do you keep the

05:24faith alive and how do you just allow this industry how do you survive in this industry which seems brutal

05:30rejection really hurts yeah but for me I think I've gotten so much of it now I've ever so many

05:36auditions I got rejected for for things that are opposite like sometimes I get rejected because

05:43I've gotten rejected for like the weirdest the most inane things ever and later got selected for

05:48a role or something for that thing that I had gotten rejected for so sometimes there's no reason

05:53to it if you just tell yourself that how do you perceive the surround noise that's happening in

05:57Bollywood which is looked at as a place of orgies and drug addled etc you know a lot of surround

06:02noise over celebrity deaths etc how do you as an actress and as a woman perceive all of this

06:08the world is a place like that firstly the world has good and bad like it has nothing to do

06:14pertaining to a particular industry I think the world has good people and bad people I believe

06:18that the world can't have only one certain type of people and even the industry can't have only

06:22one certain type of person you know there is all sides and I've met all kinds of people in the

06:28industry and in life also so I think people should be open to the fact that there are all kinds of

06:33people in the world good and bad but do you feel like you belong I mean irrespective of whether

06:37you have powerful uncles aunts or whatever you know do you feel a sense of belonging in this

06:42industry and accept it no to be honest I've never felt I'm not from the industry and I'm not as

06:50you know I'm not a very good person who's socialized so I can't blame it on the industry I'm

06:55not that's not a skill I possess I've been trained in dance and acting and playing the piano so

07:02those are skills I possess but I've never been taught how to interact with people or how to

07:08socialize at a party or how to you know I've not been taught that and maybe people some people

07:13learn it on the job and I've not picked that up that's not a skill I possess so I've never really

07:19felt belonging no I've never really felt that ever to be very honest. OTT's are quite exciting right

07:26I mean the reviews are brutal though sometimes I feel they're so quick to judge how do you take

07:30it how do you look at OTT platforms? Shooting the movie, doing the movie and the after effects are

07:36all the easy part for an outsider I think to get your break is the tough part after that for me

07:42everything's a dream this is my dream right I'm getting to live my dream this is what I wanted, I

07:47wanted to do movies, I wanted people to watch it part of my dream wasn't people saying nice things

07:52is not part of it people watching it now hopefully I'm good enough so that they really like it.

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