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.
