00:00it is what it is and there's no denying of it also if you've seen the trailer she says
00:05this is just a job for me I have to do it for my family and I don't force people to come and watch my film
00:12how do you humanize a character that is mostly standard and object to titillate you know can
00:18you humanize it is it possible see there are two ways you can tell a story like this you can either
00:22go the very art house way and make like make a beautiful festival film which travels and wins
00:29awards or or you can make a very pulpy commercial film which is almost like the films that she used
00:35to do and using those talk about her personal struggle her personal life whatever it was like
00:44how her family forced her to do all of this how she wanted love in her life how her
00:51superstardom was something that she hadn't worked on the whole quest is to humanize
00:57this character and save her from the kind of judgment that I think she's been living with for
01:02the past few decades you did not try to put on weight and try to become her you know there's no
01:06physical generally biopics the first thing the actors generally tend to do I feel is be as close
01:12to the subject as possible I did put on weight for the you'll see in the trailer put on lots of
01:18weight on my belly of course it wasn't possible for me given my work commitments to put on as much
01:24as to actually become her size I didn't want to get trapped into that look she's just put on
01:32weight or she's because then the focus tends to be only on that like physical transformations and
01:38things like that so in this case I wanted to be as close and as raw as possible I focused on
01:48being able to be true to her story generally Bollywood biopics exactly they try to glorify
01:54the subject they try to gloss over their drug addictions and everything I guess it's just one
01:59of the pitfalls we seem to be suffering with this was there a temptation to make her more perhaps
02:04just you know what is it called watered down things diluted make it more palatable for the
02:09viewers so that she doesn't come across to you know so that everybody know there's no yeah no
02:15no no there's no whitewashing here again I want to tell you that it's a very commercial film so
02:21like don't go into it expecting yeah I mean it's a very commercial film but having said that
02:28there's no attempt to whitewash her it is what it is and there's no denying of it also if you've
02:32seen the trailer she says this is just a job for me I have to do it for my family and I don't
02:38force people to come and watch my films do you think this movie will reduce the shaming around
02:43adult movie stars like it's just a profession at the end of the day I think this lady was by
02:49herself very dignified like everything like I'm sure there's so many things you wouldn't know
02:53about her like as soon as she could afford to she got a body double because she was quite
02:58religious and she didn't want to be doing all this but she was forced to because of her family
03:04and the monetary conditions we've only strived to sort of like tell her side of the story with
03:15as much dignity as possible without shying away from the truth
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