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baTTi gul meTer chalu acTor yami gauTam:

iT iS imporTanT To be Seen on Screen buT iT

maTTerS on whaT conTenT

ami Gautam has experienced failures in her career
but she never feared being written off. The actor says
Yshe will keep giving her best till the time she fulfills her
dreams.

Yami made a successful debut with the National Award winning
Vicky Donor in 2012, post which some of her projects except
for Badlapur and Kaabil did not work at the box office.

“When the films didn’t work, I never feared being written off. I
had other fears to deal with. What if I attend an event and the
media asks me ‘so and so’s film did well, yours didn’t’, what

will I say, how will I handle it. I was too vulnerable, sensitive,”
Yami said.

“I didn’t know how to be myself or be comfortable with the fact
that it happens. You just have to accept it. I never bought my
ticket to Mumbai, I earned it. I believe I was called for this and
I won’t leave till I achieve my dreams,” she adds.
The actor believes when her movies don’t do well, it reflects in
the kind of work coming her way.
The 29-year-old actor is happy that she is finally playing a
“If your films don’t do well, the kind of films you’re offered, different character, which does not have any Bollywood
you’ve to choose from only that parameter. May be you’re heroine cliches.
capable of doing much more but at that point of time you’ve to
make best decision out of what has been offered,” she adds. “What I’m doing here is something I haven’t done in any other

film. I’ve realised it’s very dated to calculate your role or your
Post the success of Vicky Donor, Yami was suddenly in the screen presence. The impact of your role matters.”
spotlight, but the actor says it took her time to adapt to the new
life. Going forward, the actor also has Uri a film based on the Uri

attacks co-starring Vicky Kaushal and Yami says her sense of
“I think adaptability is really important in the industry specially picking up a film has evolved.
when you’re a newcomer and are not conditioned to this kind of
setup. I was never the street-smart kind, I would never express “It is important to be seen on screen but it matters on what
myself so easily.” content. Doing films for the heck of it is simple, easy too.
Not that I haven’t made wrong choices but I stand by them.
The actor will be next seen in Batti Gul Meter Chalu directed Patience has been one of my virtues, so I’ve always waited to
by Shree Narayan Singh and produced by Bhushan Kumar. do the things I want,” she said.
The film tells the story of electricity theft in rural India and will
feature Yami as a lawyer.

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