Sonam Kapoor speaks about her emotional role as Neerja. Not many Bollywood actresses can claim that a role in a film altered their life or the way they perceived it. But the daughter of actor Anil Kapoor can confidently say that playing the real-life superhero changed her outlook towards life. Neerja chronicles the life of the flight attendant Neerja Bhanot, who at 23 sacrificed her life when terrorists hijacked Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi in 1986. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00I don't know if I've enjoyed it. I've enjoyed the creative process of it but
00:14to play somebody who's no more like who died on the plane and the first thing
00:20that came in my head when we finished shooting the plane was I get it I get to
00:24leave this plane and she didn't. Well you know I always perceived life a certain
00:30way where I there was a lot of black and white and I was extremely idealistic and
00:35I think that being in the film industry kind of makes you slightly jaded and
00:39slightly you know you you want to compromise on certain values that you
00:43that you have when you're younger and I think while playing Nija I kind of
00:50revisited that. Her parents were like amazing. The father was a journalist at
01:00Hindustan Times and her mom they didn't believe in dowry they didn't they brought
01:04her up with a lot of love and a lot of acceptance and they didn't treat her any
01:08differently than they would her their boys you know and I think that it has to
01:12do a lot with her family and upbringing because you know girls can have all
01:15sorts of ideas but the family doesn't let you do something especially in India
01:19you can't do it. Well you know I was fearful of because her actions were
01:27extraordinary. At the end of the day she was an ordinary girl like she was a
01:31Bombay girl who went to Bombay Scottish and she was like me or like you or like
01:35anybody else you know she liked modeling and she wanted to see the world so she's
01:38like oh I become an air hostess you know it was that she's just been brought up
01:43with a set of values and ideals and when push came to shove and she was in put in
01:48a position of pressure she just did the right thing.
01:55He saw the film and he he was like the story has people need to see the story
01:59because young people need to it's a story for young people honestly it's a
02:03story for young people or for older people who've forgotten what life should
02:06be like and it's for young people to get inspired to not ever lose a path lose
02:09their path.
02:11When I truly identified with Neeja was when she's reading this letter that
02:17somebody who's supposed to love her and accept her has written about her and it
02:22criticizes her a lot and she knows in her head that what this person is saying
02:28is wrong and it's ridiculous but in her heart she's really hurt and she feels
02:32like something's wrong with her and she's speaking to her parents because
02:35she needs her parents to accept her at this point and say that there's nothing
02:39wrong with you and I think young girls right now really need that especially
02:44with like body shaming and with being the way with like lots of lots of other
02:49things where you know you you're struggling to accept who you are and a
02:53lot of people criticize you for things which are completely irrelevant.
02:59Like I know in my head when somebody's talking about my body and I'm like oh
03:02Like I know in my head when somebody's talking about my body or talking about
03:06some stuff like you know people like I have these really nasty comments and in
03:11my head I know that these this is not a reflection of who I am it's a reflection
03:16of what that person is but in my soul and in my heart it's really hurtful you
03:20know and I'm and I need somebody to tell me that you know you're not that person
03:26you know don't think about it even if I know it if someone says that to me it
03:29just makes me feel a little better right it's just human nature and I felt
03:34that. You need validation.