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I've Been The Saddest While I've Been The Most Successful, Strangely.

The Great Thing About Cinema Is That It's A Great Binder. It Brings People From Across The World Together, Often Erasing The Lines Between Geographies, Languages, Familiarity, And The Like. Cinema Is Art And Art, They Say, Is A Reflection Of Life And Society, So The Way We Tell Our Stories Is The Main Differentiator For Me.

First Of All, Feminism Is Not Man-hating, Not Man-berating. It Is Not Saying We Are Better. It Is Just Saying We Want The Same Opportunities, And We Want To Be Able To Make Decisions On Our Own Without Being Judged For Them. We Want The Same Freedom Men Have Enjoyed Over The Years, So I Think That's The Place Where We Are. And It's Completely Not Mutually Exclusive At All For How You Want To Look, How You Take Care Of Yourself, How You Want To Be, What You Want To Look Like.

I Used To Get Upset With The Word Bollywood, And What It Means In The West. The Stereotype Of Us Being Dancing, Singing, Puppet Showgirls. Indians Are Nearly One Fifth Of The World's Population; We Have One Of The Most Prolific Film Industries In The World. When People Used To Ask Me About It, Or Replicate What They Think Is Bollywood Dancing, Thinking That They're Being Funny, I Used To Get Offended. But Now I Show Them The Stuff We Do.

Every Movie That I Do, I Always Try And Better Myself In The Next One And Try And Find A Part Which Is More Challenging. It's A Little Vulnerable To Do That, To Always Push The Envelope. You Position Yourself For A Lot More Flack Or A Lot More Critique Because You're Trying To Do Something Different. Sometimes You're Good At It And Sometimes You're Not, But It's A Chance You Have To Take To Make Life Exciting.