Anand Ahuja Biography

My life, my choice. Interviewer: Life after marriage and in the cinema Sonya Kapoor: Despite the fact that I have a husband and I live between three cities, three houses, my life has not changed. She is fussy, but at the same time she is incredible. I spend the time perfectly. SK: I succeed because I enjoy it. I always traveled a lot, but I never had a house in different cities.

I used to stay in hotels. Now, I'm moving from one house to another. It's simple. IN: Would you prefer another life? SK: Probably I would be bored. We are twins, we can easily get bored. I believe that Anand Ahuja was created specifically for me. I have never met anyone who would travel as much as he, and who would work as hard as he, and yet, he would have received pleasure from it seriously, but does not take himself seriously, which is nice.

IN: From the point of view of your work, you seem to become more electoral SK: I have always been selective. We are all responsible for what we do. Forget the story and the film; It is also about the people you work with. It is important to work with the right people. Someone may be the best director or the best actor in the country, but if their moral compass does not work, I do not want to be near them.

I believe that in some way it encourages them. IN: What is it to act in such a film as “What did I feel when I saw this girl”? SK: I made this film intentionally, because when I signed it, homosexuality was not yet decriminalized. Then we were not even sure whether it would come out or not. But we believed that it was time to make such a film. The film cannot be called "artistic".

Rather, it was done to change how people think. People like you and I will not find anything bad in this. But there are people who do not even suspect its existence. So, this film was made for them. People in cities such as Delhi or Chandigarch saw how Anil Kapoor accepts the fact that his daughter-gay in the film. This was done in a sound way. This was not a provocation.

IN: You were disappointed when the film failed to attract enough spectators? SK: The film was recognized by critics. My last film, which received such reviews, was Nirzha. If you release his film on the screens, what do you expect? If there was only what happened in the budget for promotion, then what can be done with this? Honestly, I did not expect that the film would receive such a response.

I am satisfied with how the film works on the Internet. I was pleased with the discovery. There are films with screens whose fees on the opening day are much smaller than what “Ek Ladki .... IN: What feedback do you receive today because of the film on social networks? SK: If you are spilling my Instagram or Twitter in fact, some even took their family to watch the film.

My friend sent me a message that when the film became available on the OTT platform, he asked his mother to see him. By the end of the conversation, she was already sobbing. The film was used as a tool to go out. SK: This is a sweet love story. This girl I play is complete confusion. She is the so -called loser. As at work, nothing happens in personal life either.

Then she falls in love with the captain of the Indian Crysteter team, which is considered God in India. I think a comedy is my strength. Despite the fact that people now prefer to act in dramas, I like to make comedies. IN: Recently, one website wrote on Twitter that Dulmana’s film “Zoya Factor” will face another film, to which you answered that this is also your film and you play there Zoya SK: Smiles.

I just made a retweet by saying that the film is called “The Zoya Factor”, and I play Zoya. This is my film. I play the main character. IN: It is not annoying you that this is still a male industry? SK: This is feminine and extreme sexism. This is sad, but it is it. SK: Honestly, this is difficult. I struggle every day in this industry. That case is just a trifle.

IN: When one of their leading actresses speaks of a struggle, this surprises the UK: initially, when I came to the film industry, everyone said that she was born with a silver spoon, she had family ties, etc. They did not know what I was listened to for the “lover”, I was listened to “Delhi 6” and that I was listening to each film in which I worked. The difference was that I was the first choice.

That's all. He was the largest director of that time. Every heroine wanted to make this film. But I signed a contract before the release of the film "Beloved". I don’t even remember how many auditions I passed. Even for the film "Beloved", I tried with Ranbir Kapoor. Then I signed such projects as “I hate love stories” and “Aisha” I cannot explain how difficult it was to make the film “Aisha”.

Do you know how much effort it took to make the movie "Beauty"? Not a single hero wanted to work with me, because the film was called "Beauty."I needed to pick up Favad Khan from Pakistan. And look at what came out of this. Favad became a huge star. He had confidence. SK: It was very bad for me when I starred in the film on the Niagara waterfall in Canada. I had a degree temperature.

At that time, I did not know that I had a typhoid. It was raining. I did not have my room to relax. Only the actor had a van. I sat with an umbrella. I was frozen. I waited six hours while they shot the protagonist. Then they took me a close -up, but by that time my face was turning blue. Later I went into the room and called my father. I said: "I don't want to play anymore. He asked:" Why?