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Singh, who will be rolling out her new Tamil romance ‘Dev’ on February 14 in the UAE, was still high from skydiving in Dubai, and claims she dove off the aircraft like an absolute professional.
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Singh, who will be rolling out her new Tamil romance ‘Dev’ on February 14 in the UAE, was still high from skydiving in Dubai, and claims she dove off the aircraft like an absolute professional.
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00:00Your social media we all know is good and bad at the same time and I've never, I've
00:15actually stayed away from most of the controversies if you look at it and I've never been linked
00:19up unnecessarily.
00:20I mean it's not been there but lately this whole controversy that came up, it was just
00:25I've never hit back on a troll in the last six years of me being an actor.
00:29This was the first time and that also happened because I kind of woke up to that message
00:33you know and it was one of those days where just a day before I was at a book launch and
00:39it was about powerful women and the media was asking questions about what do you think
00:43about women equality, do you think Me Too has really helped and you're out there trying
00:48to say that you know we're going to make it happen and it's great, it's all good and women
00:53are great and the next day you wake up to this and there was just this flutter of thoughts
00:59in my head where I thought what are we talking for you know if I can't reply to this, I don't
01:04have the right to go and talk in interviews, I'm not going to because just a week before
01:09that I'd done like a India Today conclave so all those thoughts just started you know
01:16rushing through my head and I was like I need to give it back and I'll tell you, you know
01:21it was that so it wasn't Rakul the actor who replied it was Rakul the girl who replied so a
01:26lot of people spoke about my choice of words to which I had to say that I mean I agree I
01:31could have framed it better but then where then I would have been politically correct and I
01:35wouldn't have been me, the real me you know and my question to them is that if you're walking
01:39on the street and someone teases you or hits on your family are you going to say please don't
01:45do this, I'll come in front of you, no you're going to just react and my first instinct was
01:50that you know that I was just trying to give a taste of his own medicine.
01:55Yeah, it was self survival in some way.
01:58Forget about the self survival, I got disgusted at the thought, I thought that you know
02:01people like this who can openly on social media write something like this and that also to a
02:07celebrity, imagine they must be boasting with their friends, I've written this so these are
02:13the kind of people who turn out to be rapists tomorrow or you know sexually assault women
02:19and predators because will you and me ever write something or think something which is so
02:23disgusting, we won't right so there has to be something really mentally wrong with that
02:29person to do that and apparently Twitter told me later that that account has, he's shut his
02:35account down so at least that saves the trouble to so many more girls, at least two girls,
02:40three girls so my work's done, at least someone you know.
02:44That's always a good thing, I would say give it, accounts paid is a good thing.
02:47I mean if we can't, I think as we all say you know every girl needs to stand up for
02:51herself but then a celebrity you're told don't talk or as a girl don't talk because you need
02:56to be politically correct but then isn't that being incorrect because outside in papers I'm
03:02giving quotes that are a girl power and you know women should talk and I can't save my own self.
03:12Yes, Dev is releasing on Feb 14 Tamil movie and I was actually quite surprised in Dubai that
03:17there are a lot of Tamilians you know, our driver was and then he was mentioning about
03:22the film and then they screened a lot of films.
03:24It's coming out.
03:25Yes, so now Feb 14th is that, I'm excited about that then there's NGK with Surya sir
03:31which is in April which is also a Tamil film then May has De De Pyaar De with Ajay Devgn
03:38then I've got Marjama with Siddharth coming out in October which I'm shooting for right now.
03:48No, it's like how we speak Hindi-English, I switch from another language to another.
03:53I've learnt Telugu now, I speak Telugu as fluently as I speak Punjabi which is really surprising.
03:59Tamil I understand, I don't speak as well but I manage my lines because obviously I'm relatively
04:05newer in Tamil than in Telugu you know but yeah I think you can absolutely, I think where there's
04:11a desire to do something, you can.
04:14A lot of people feel, ask me if language is a barrier and I don't feel that any form of
04:20art is a barrier, you know language can ever be a barrier for any form of art.
04:25I just love being in front of the camera.
04:30No, but that, no I don't think so you know if you look at it, yeah if you look at it
04:36holistically there are so many actors who've done extremely well coming from the North.
04:41In fact, on the contrary I'd like to say that the South industry is very welcoming
04:46especially for North Indian girls. If you look at a Kajal or a Tammanna or so many of them you know
04:52and vice versa I mean Sridevi ji was from the South who made it to one of the biggest superstars
04:57and Tabu ma'am and so many of them so I think industry doesn't really function that way.
05:03What really matters is how passionate towards your work you are, how dedicated you are and
05:09one thing I'd like to say that in the South they really appreciate hard work.
05:13I think people really recognize if you're ready to work hard and then they appreciate because I
05:18was welcomed with open arms and I still say that, that I think that's the reason I feel at home in Telugu.
05:28A lot of people do, they think I'm a Punjabi who was born in Hyderabad.
05:33I'm like no, I am an army kid and I've been all over, all over the place, all over the country but yeah.
05:46You know I've spoken enough on Me Too, I did speak earlier on when it happened and
05:53and I can only talk from my experience you know. I'm not denying that it exists or it doesn't exist
05:59but for me it's been really good. Now having said that, I know that that it's very difficult to come
06:06out and my heart absolutely goes out to people who have shown the courage to come out and take
06:11names and it's not easy to do that because you know that you're going to not, you know everyone's
06:15going to try and push you down but I have been very lucky. I'd say that I did not face it and
06:24also somewhere I believe that I was also the kind of person may whether call it my army
06:29upbringing or call it whatever where I didn't give too much importance to me not getting it.
06:36It wasn't a do or die for me you know so the way you, I was yeah I wasn't desperate and I feel
06:42and it's not about our industry you know let's not, let's not defame the industry. It's good people
06:50or bad people and it is an opportunist world you know anywhere somebody sees that well they can
06:55make use of it or they can you know so they will try and do it, isn't it? Even in villages you go
07:02anywhere you know like a person or trader it's a power play, it's a trader, a farmer they'll all
07:07try to make everybody's here for survival so it's how much your desperation comes across is how
07:14people are going to try and you know put you down and and kind of sexually assault you but
07:21but I'm glad that this movement happened and it's hopefully going to turn out into a safer
07:28place for women and I just hope that it doesn't dilute.