Tamannaah Bhatia attended the second edition of SCREEN LIVE on Thursday, along with her Sikandar Ka Muqaddar co-stars Jimmy Shergill and Avinash Tiwary. During the session, Tamannaah, who has earned a name for herself in Bollywood and South Cinema, talked about women bringing a change in the film industry.
The actress said that the first mistake most women make is address themselves as women and not people. Tamannaah said, “I think we need to stop addressing ourselves as a woman because I think we are just people. I think the differentiation or the thing that we are lesser is somewhere engrained in us. Now we are trying to rub that on every industry. Actually it is not. Its just the way we look at ourselves. If we can’t look at ourselves as people and as equals then nobody else is going to.”
She added, “I definitely look at myself as just a person who can do different things and I truly think that if you really want to make it big in any industry, you have to first be in it. You have to be in the game. I know a lot of people want to change things overnight. It is easy to say from far: ‘They should change this in the industry or they should change that in the industry.’ But how are you going to change it without being a part of it? You really have to be part of it and for that sometimes you have to let your ego go because our profession is a collective art form. It is not a one person art. It is so many people’s creative ideas that need to find the influence and then there is a hierarchy to it.”
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Addressing the elephant in the room, Tamannaah said, “The problem with hierarchy is that most women think they can’t ask for things they want. ‘If they ask, they are replaceable,’ these are all lowly thoughts that we have all been trained to think. We have the conditioning. You need to drop this out of your mind. Secondly be productive. If you know your job, I don’t see why anybody would not want to do it.”
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Sharing how she deals with these things, the actress said, “My mindset has never been a victim mindset. I can never feel bad for myself. I feel like that’s stupid. I would rather be like do the job, be productive, achieve, and show that you can bring something to the people. It is then the change can happen.”
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