00:00I don't know if I've enjoyed it. I've enjoyed the creative process of it but
00:14to play somebody who's no more like who died on the plane and the first thing
00:20that came in my head when we finished shooting the plane was I get it I get to
00:24leave this plane and she didn't. Well you know I always perceived life a certain
00:30way where I there was a lot of black and white and I was extremely idealistic and
00:35I think that being in the film industry kind of makes you slightly jaded and
00:39slightly you know you you want to compromise on certain values that you
00:43that you have when you're younger and I think while playing Nija I kind of
00:50revisited that. Her parents were like amazing. The father was a journalist at
01:00Hindustan Times and her mom they didn't believe in dowry they didn't they brought
01:04her up with a lot of love and a lot of acceptance and they didn't treat her any
01:08differently than they would her their boys you know and I think that it has to
01:12do a lot with her family and upbringing because you know girls can have all
01:15sorts of ideas but the family doesn't let you do something especially in India
01:19you can't do it. Well you know I was fearful of because her actions were
01:27extraordinary. At the end of the day she was an ordinary girl like she was a
01:31Bombay girl who went to Bombay Scottish and she was like me or like you or like
01:35anybody else you know she liked modeling and she wanted to see the world so she's
01:38like oh I become an air hostess you know it was that she's just been brought up
01:43with a set of values and ideals and when push came to shove and she was in put in
01:48a position of pressure she just did the right thing.
01:55He saw the film and he he was like the story has people need to see the story
01:59because young people need to it's a story for young people honestly it's a
02:03story for young people or for older people who've forgotten what life should
02:06be like and it's for young people to get inspired to not ever lose a path lose
02:09their path.
02:11When I truly identified with Neeja was when she's reading this letter that
02:17somebody who's supposed to love her and accept her has written about her and it
02:22criticizes her a lot and she knows in her head that what this person is saying
02:28is wrong and it's ridiculous but in her heart she's really hurt and she feels
02:32like something's wrong with her and she's speaking to her parents because
02:35she needs her parents to accept her at this point and say that there's nothing
02:39wrong with you and I think young girls right now really need that especially
02:44with like body shaming and with being the way with like lots of lots of other
02:49things where you know you you're struggling to accept who you are and a
02:53lot of people criticize you for things which are completely irrelevant.
02:59Like I know in my head when somebody's talking about my body and I'm like oh
03:02Like I know in my head when somebody's talking about my body or talking about
03:06some stuff like you know people like I have these really nasty comments and in
03:11my head I know that these this is not a reflection of who I am it's a reflection
03:16of what that person is but in my soul and in my heart it's really hurtful you
03:20know and I'm and I need somebody to tell me that you know you're not that person
03:26you know don't think about it even if I know it if someone says that to me it
03:29just makes me feel a little better right it's just human nature and I felt
03:34that. You need validation.
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