00:00My immediate reaction was I think shock and disbelief and yeah and then I felt
00:15something very novel which I don't think I've felt in so many years of my life so
00:20it was a very special day for me. It's a day that I'll always remember.
00:30Personally it means a lot to be recognized for doing things differently
00:38for choosing different things from the regular and for still achieving this or
00:47coming here so personally I felt that I felt validated I felt that I was at
00:56least you know someone up there was saying okay good girl you did you're
01:01okay you did the right things but yeah professionally I think you know I've
01:07been here for a very long time and I've been here for many years and I've done
01:11lots of films so I generally you know feel like people by now recognize what I
01:21can contribute to a film and they I already I always get that get my due is
01:30what I feel this is like a just a feather in the cap like it's just
01:35something that adds to that
01:42it was certainly a character that I needed to really get away from my
01:49comfort zone a little bit it took me a minute to sort of snap out of being me
01:56and to be Shobana which is a character which is very very different from me the
02:03mannerisms the small little mannerisms the little things so nowhere in the film
02:09you will see Nitya at any point you'll always see Shobana and that is that is
02:14not something it's a very subtle thing and it's small and it it's not
02:19noticeable but it's you know a very conscious thing so I had to I I
02:25definitely had to be a little bit shaken out of my comfort zone to get into this
02:30character
02:35it's very difficult to talk about special moments because we do so much
02:41multiple films and all of that and the film was two years back but I I think
02:47the song that we shot for at night in the streets that was when we were
02:54shooting it itself it felt special and it felt magical because it was kind of
03:02choreographed and done on the spot and it was done with the two of us and what
03:08was comfortable for us and what we could do and what looked cute and Nitya do
03:14this you know do that and like oh okay okay just jump just okay just stay I'll
03:19do this so it was kind of it just got worked out right then and there and when
03:25we finished the shot and we came out everyone looked like everyone was
03:30beaming and so there was something very magical about that shot and once the
03:37film released that is the one that got the most picked up and became so viral
03:45I wouldn't say there's like one person but when you watch things that are made
03:54with so much heart and soul and when you watch really good work good writing good
04:00direction great acting that inspires you to say okay this is what I want to do as
04:06well so you know this is what I should aspire to be a part of
04:14I hope so I really hope it does open new doors for me I'm very lucky in the sense
04:24that people do give me recognition for everything I've done until now but I do
04:30hope new doors open yes
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