00:00Smiley, I think we both know that our fashion industry, all the big fashion designers are
00:12all from the LGBT community, especially from the gay community, they have become big designers.
00:18So I think there was a lot of change from the beginning, but there was no acceptance.
00:22Because a lot of designers are like this, if I share an incident, it feels very bad.
00:28I went for Miss Universe India, and when you go for such a beauty pageant, you need a good
00:34gown, you need someone who can prepare something for you, which you can show on national television
00:40or national platform, which will be seen all over the world.
00:45I have connected a few designers and they haven't responded to me.
00:50It feels bad, we are a part of the community, a lot of people in the community are privileged
00:56but do they only think about themselves?
00:59Is he doing it for the sake of visibility, running around, shaking hands and feet?
01:05He is not only doing it for himself, he is doing it for the entire community.
01:10So there is a big river, there are big crocodiles, but when it comes to help or support system,
01:21I am not seeing anyone coming out for us, especially for underprivileged people like us.
01:52But when the real thing is that this girl should get visibility and she is going on such a big platform
01:57to represent our state, nobody comes for the support.
02:22She is like a child, she is real.
02:24The way she teaches children, elders, people, she played the same role.
02:34She played the role of a teacher, a respectable teacher, a beautiful person.
02:39And the inclusiveness that Navya has talked about, she played that role so well because she is like that.
02:48So I was very proud of her.
02:49I would like to say one thing, both of us had made a manifest.
02:52She said in 2023, Navya, 2024 is yours and you are going to achieve a lot in 2024.
03:02I thought she was just saying that because both of us sisters get emotional very quickly.
03:06And we feel that we are ahead of everyone.
03:13Navya, 2024 is not going away from us, 2024 is ours.
03:18And I said, yes, it's ours, let's see what happens.
03:21And suddenly in 2024, something happened and we both like,
03:27she was in House of Lies and I was in Miss Universe India and Colors.
03:32And also I feel after, and when Miss Universe happened,
03:35you know, everything happened in such a hurry, it was Rakhi day.
03:40And Abhishek Bhatt, who is my Rakhi brother, he is Navya's very good friend.
03:48And he came home and I tied Rakhi to him.
03:52And he told me, I have to arrange for a gown, I have to do this, I have to do that.
03:55In fact, we were just seeing, I had so many new clothes.
04:01And I had not even seen them and I said, Navya, you would have taken this, you would have taken this.
04:06You know, opportunity works with the hair on her face.
04:10And Navya is one person, success is what?
04:14When preparation meets hard work.
04:17Okay, she's prepared, she works hard.
04:20So she recognizes the opportunity, even if her hair is on her face, she will catch it.
04:25But at that time, it is very important to be ready and I learned this from Navya.
04:30Today she was teaching me makeup inside that Smiley,
04:32Be ready at any time, you should know how to apply makeup.
04:36If I had met Navya at the time of Kalyug,
04:40maybe I would have been in this glamorous avatar today and maybe I would have signed some more films.
04:50To be very honest, today when a platform like Miss Universe India is made for us,
04:56I don't think it's tokenism.
04:59If they had to serve us like a token, why would they show us on the official page of Miss Universe?
05:04They just took our audition and showed that a trans woman has come and is giving an audition.
05:09We have given them visibility so far.
05:11But walking in the national beauty page in that platform,
05:18it totally shows you that it's not tokenism.
05:22And I'm glad to Nikhil Anand, the organizer of Miss Universe India,
05:26who has given us opportunity.
05:29Not only the opportunity, not only me.
05:31Being with me, there were more two beautiful trans women.
05:34One is Sheeni Suni and one is Namita Amarimuthu.
05:37Sheeni was representing Haryana and Namita was representing Tamil Nadu, Chennai.
05:42So I guess,
05:44it ends here that some people who believe in tokenism, no, it's not tokenism.
05:50And I think this is just the beginning.
05:51There is still a lot to see.
05:53I want to tell you a story that happened recently.
05:55I won't take names.
05:57But I was doing some work in which Navya was coming to support me.
06:02And the people there wanted to take bites of Navya, while I was doing that work for free.
06:10So I felt very bad that people are not giving me that closeness or inclusiveness to Navya.
06:19But because I am inviting Navya, they are using Navya.
06:24So I got very angry about this.
06:26So whether you call it tokenism or you call it, look, people are going to do a lot of things.
06:32Here people are not cowards.
06:35Everyone is an opportunist.
06:36And everyone sees their own benefit.
06:39So I just say that in this world and at this time,
06:44this kind of sisterhood and this kind of...
06:46I told Navya at that time that I am not doing this work.
06:50And Navya said, I am with you.
06:52Sister, you do whatever you want to do.
06:54I am with you.
06:55So I think in this situation, if there are such people,
07:01whether you call it tokenism or nepotism or whatever you want to call it,
07:06opportunists will be everywhere.
07:08But talent is like sun's rays.
07:11You can't stop it.
07:12For now, Navya has inspired me at this time that I should try to enter Miss Universe.
07:20So right now I am just working on my body.
07:23I believe a 75-year-old Korean lady.
07:26Yeah, yeah.
07:26I mean, I think Miss Universe India is such that there are no age criteria there.
07:31A married woman can also participate in Miss Universe India.
07:34A divorcee can also participate in Miss Universe India.
07:37Of course, yes, you have seen trans women have also participated.
07:41So I think age doesn't matter now.
07:44Height doesn't matter now.
07:46Body weight doesn't matter now.
07:49So it's a real inclusiveness.
07:52Real diversity has started.
07:54And anyone who identifies as a woman can participate.
07:59Also, I'm writing a book, my autobiography.
08:03So that is going on.
08:04I'm working on myself.
08:06You'll see my transformation journey.
08:08And you'll see a lot of things happening.
08:11I'm working with Navya also on both initial stage.
08:14But actually, let's get it's a big synopsis submitted to us.
08:19Let's get somebody or for us.
08:22We'll do it.
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