Wish you all the best Salony and thank you very much for talking to CinemaForensic! I recently shot for an international film called вЂForbiddenвЂ™ which is also about the journey of my life. My play вЂњBlackbirdвЂќ is happening at National School of DramaвЂ™s (NSD) reputed International Theatre Festival вЂBharangamвЂ™. Tamil short film вЂOliyum OliyumвЂ™ is doing the festival rounds right now. Great! And what are your upcoming projects? For me, they are all very different and interesting mediums. In theatre, being on stage with dialogues and so much happening around you is just a different feel. I like doing performance oriented roles but I will do commercial films if there is something interesting for me to perform as an actor.

I had to do a lot of preparation for the Tamil films, as I was not familiar with the language. So what kind of similarities or differences do you find between theatre, ads and movies?ДЄll are beautiful forms of expression according to me. You gave us an award-winning performance in Tamil film вЂSarabhamвЂ™, you are part of several advertising campaigns and you are also doing theatre. I would also love explore World Cinema like French or Iranian films as I donвЂ™t feel the language as a barrier! I have been fortunate to get the roles that I have done till now. I look for roles that empower me at the end of the day. The play that I am working on now is a two-actor play that any actor would break her legs for. My role in Tamil film вЂSarabhamвЂ™ is once in a lifetime kind of a role. So I guess I have given my best and done proper justice to the role (smiles). Silence can be captured only when you are genuinely silent and it is more about what is happening inside you. I started observing women around me, like in bus stops, trains where they do not say much and just let things happen to them. She also wanted me to put on weight for this. Pakhi Tyrewala sent me the script when I was shooting for a Tamil film in Singapore. How did you prepare for the role? How hard was it to get into such a character? Hope people change their attitude towards women after this. As women, we are very powerful but in India, we are not made to understand that. Parental pressure for women is such that you forget your own personality. After marriage, if your husband is liberal then you get to see a different side of life otherwise itвЂ™s going to be the same mundane lifestyle for you. As women, we are brought up in a way where our parentвЂ™s happiness and dreams are more important than our own. In India, the conditioning of women is very different to the women in the west. So do you think the situation here in India is getting better or is it still the same? Nowadays there are a lot of films based on women empowerment and вЂKajalвЂ™ is also on those lines. It has happened to me as well, so вЂKajalвЂ™ became a personal journey where I once again realized that I need to make something out of my life and not do something just for the sake of others! If that keeps happening over a period of time, you tend to lose your existence. Somebody will say something not nice to you and you start feeling you are not good enough. While I was doing the film I realized that we let so many people kill our personality and dominate us. And there are a lot of people who try to curb that, but then once you realize your inner power, itвЂ™s a totally different scene all together. Tell me something about your role in the film? In Conversation With Salony Luthra For Her Upcoming Short Film вЂKajalвЂ™Д¬ongratulations Salony on your brilliant performance in the short film вЂKajalвЂ™.

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