Being a girl, Nusrat Bharucha felt inferior many times, said – we are silenced

Be it your last film ‘Janhit Mein Jaari’ or this new film ‘Akeli’, you have always been seen in strong female characters, when did you feel most empowered as a girl?
There were many occasions when I found myself empowered. When I was a kid and in school, I used to get bullied a lot. I used to be a thin and timid girl then. Even my voice could not come out. I used to be a target everyday. Then I used to have a friend, who saw my condition, he was older than me, like my brother. He befriended me and assured me that I didn’t need these people. Why do you go to them when they make fun of you? He made me his friend. When she said that you don’t need anyone, I can’t tell you what confidence I got? After that I was neither dependent on anyone nor did I tolerate anyone’s nonsense. Later, when I grew up a bit, even then I was not dependent on anyone. If someone asks you to leave the house at night, then you say no, I will go.

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Do you ever feel inferior being a girl?
-many times. When assumptions are made about us. For example, our value is reduced by connecting with two or three things. Like if it’s glamorous, it won’t have depth. Many times when we are sitting in the group and everyone is giving their opinion, then people say, what opinion would she (the woman) have? Our point of view is not given importance. what do you know we are talking right? By saying this we are silenced. And this happens to most of all women. At such times, there is a feeling of inferiority.

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It is generally seen in women-oriented films that whether it is a matter of release or of heroes of heroines, they have to face many challenges. What would you like to say?
There are challenges. I don’t know about other heroines, but I am scared. Being a heroine, my producer-director and I took the initiative to make a women-oriented film, but today success has become very important for us. It has become so important to do well at the box office that we have forced many good filmmakers and artists to do the same. I do not understand that if a film did not do good business, then is its failure a proof that the film is not good? Business means how many people went to watch the movie, hey when people didn’t come to watch the movie, how can you say the movie is bad? So there is a fear of this. We have taken a bold step, I am very optimistic. People come watch and we get a chance to make more women centric films.

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It is being said about your film ‘Akeli’ that ‘Akeli’ is being released to cash in on films like ‘The Kashmir Files’, ‘The Kerala Story’ and ’72 Hooren’?
This film of ours is not at all similar to these three films. Our story is related to terrorism at the global level, which is a big problem for every country. I consider myself very lucky that I am in India, I feel most secure here. In our story, the girl gets trapped in the midst of a terrorist attack and is unable to return, so we have not made a film to capitalize on Behti Dhara. This script was offered to me three years back, then the lockdown happened. These films were released after the shooting of our film. It is just a coincidence that these films released in the same time zone and they did so much business.