How Did Bhakshak Change Bhumi Pednekar? | Filmfare OTT Awards Press Conference

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At the press meet session of Filmfare OTT Awards, talented actress Bhumi Pednekar opens up on how film Bhakshak changed her & shares some unheard details about the same. The leading lady donned a beautiful black attire for the press conference.

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00:00When you did Bhakshak, when you do films which are political in nature,

00:04the politics always interests me.

00:06What is the filmmaker trying to say?

00:09What is the actor?

00:11Does it change you?

00:12I mean, this Bhakshak was a very important film

00:16and it made a lot of valid points and all of that,

00:22which, I mean, whoever's seen the film knows.

00:24But how did it change you as a person?

00:26And my first question is, what would you tell a 20-year-old?

00:29Basically, he's asking what you would tell yourself three years ago.

00:3220-year-old, right?

00:34Yes!

00:36I think I would just tell my younger self that

00:42don't give up.

00:44You know, it's tough,

00:46but whatever you're thinking is correct.

00:48You always had a plan and you've stuck to it

00:52and you're doing well.

00:55Because I say this time and again that where I am

00:58was a part of a larger plan, a larger dream

01:01that I thought of when I was very young.

01:04And nothing has touchwood till now gone off track.

01:07Yes, there are bad days, good days,

01:10films work, films don't work,

01:12there are extreme highs and extreme lows,

01:15but the end goal is to leave behind a legacy of films,

01:18work with filmmakers and do content that I'm very, very proud of

01:23and that's exactly what I'm doing.

01:24I was very, very clear that I want to create a space for myself

01:28where I'm irreplaceable.

01:31The movies that I do,

01:34I create a space for myself and a niche for myself

01:36which would be very tough to break.

01:41And I think I'm somewhere there, somewhere I've created that

01:46and I'm just very, very proud of my film,

01:50of the films that I've been associated with.

01:53So, Younger Bhoomi, it was her idea,

01:57it was her planning and plotting that I am here today.

02:00So, I'm very proud of her.

02:02Are you still a hustler?

02:03I'm a hustler max.

02:05There's no other way, there's no other way to be

02:07because when you don't really come from padding,

02:11this is your biggest support.

02:14And I'm very, I am a hustler

02:16and hustling is the best thing that you can do.

02:18Hustlers make it.

02:24Can you second myself?

02:26That how did Bhakshak change me?

02:27It actually, so you know when the script came to me,

02:30I said no because I was nervous.

02:33I was like, I don't know if I can take this on

02:36because it was too much.

02:38And it was after six months of being extremely disappointed with myself,

02:43I went back to my director, Pulkit,

02:45and I told him, please tell me you've still not cast the film

02:48and they were just about to take it to some other actor.

02:51And he said, no, I haven't.

02:52I said, please just let me be a part of it

02:54because I will be guilt-ridden

02:56if I don't get an opportunity to be a part of the story.

03:01I think the way it changed me is that

03:04for the first time I was doing a film that was,

03:06it broke my, it breaks my heart to even say it,

03:09but it was inspired from a very gruesome reality

03:13and that reality is still very active.

03:16And just to even imagine

03:20that there were kids that went through everything

03:25that I was reading in a script is something,

03:29it's very heavy.

03:30I don't think that will ever be,

03:32that will ever leave me,

03:34all the information that I went through

03:35when I was researching the film,

03:37that would ever leave me.

03:38And I, anyways, I'm very empathetic

03:40and I feel Bhakshak has just turned me into

03:43somebody who wants to leave behind

03:46a way larger impact through my work.

03:49I think I was anyways on that path,

03:51but by doing a Bhakshak,

03:52it's given me a lot more clarity

03:54of what the next decade for me is going to be like.

03:57I'm not chasing projects.

03:58I'm only chasing stories

04:00and stories that impact in every genre.

04:04More power to you.

04:05More power to you.

04:05Well done.

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