Yami Gautam recently sat down for an exclusive interview with a leading news website, Bollywood Hungama! In this interview, she talked about a lot of her work.
“This is a phase I have waited for a long long time and finally it’s here where I am getting some exciting opportunities professionally, and personally, I think everybody knows (referring to her marriage to filmmaker Aditya Dhar in June this year),” she said.
Yami shared, “OMG had a very beautiful amalgamation of our faith and values and what we believe in, in today’s time, how we coexist. Taking that structure and essence of the film ahead, it’s an entirely different story, it’s an entirely different subject. People can expect a subject that has not been explored or discussed yet, at least on this scale. The subject is extremely pivotal and important for our society, for our future. It will be very interesting to see both the institutions and both the beliefs coexisting and influencing each other”.
Yami adds, “If it’s a film like Dasvi where the film is based on Haryanvi background and I play a cop. I am not someone who has a thick accent but you need to understand my family background, you need to understand the Haryanvi girl who is educated, to work and to be comfortable with the language and with the diction, so that you can improvise and make it your own; that comfort needs to be there. For a film like A Thursday, which was a very intense film and I think that is something which required a lot of mental prep and a lot of it was left to the imagination; just to literally be in the moment and imagine what if this had actually happened and what would you do in that scenario. It was a very heavy film for me. I remember I used to go on the set and I used to feel very heavy in my body.”
“For Lost, again a very realistic subject, that talks about the integrity of media in today’s scenario where everything is about sensationalism. I play a crime reporter so what are the nuances, what is it that I can bring which is real, which is something that an audience can connect with because they are watching the news every day. I think that needed a lot of nuances and depth in terms of understanding the underlying emotions. In OMG 2, I play a lawyer. To believe in the subject and get through with what the film is trying to say, that believability comes with understanding the subject and being extremely thorough with your character,” she added.
