Kiara Advani

Host: Kiara, please have a seat. Thank you. Wow, it really is a packed house. How exciting. Very. Kiara Advani: I was just telling Anu backstage, I said I'm a little nervous because I have not, done interviews for the last six months.

We didn't promote the movie, we didn't go out on, you know, the interview rounds. But I'm so happy that we're doing this after the movie, because now at least everyone's seen it and we can have so much more to chat about. Host: Yeah. Kiara, you always said that you wanted to always be an actor.

Yeah. There was no plan B. There was. You know, when you were a little girl, you were wearing your mother's Yeah. And dancing to Madhuri's songs and Kareena's songs, Yeah.

Dreaming of being a Hindi film heroine. Is the reality of this very different from what you would imagined? Mm. Kiara Advani: I mean, it's far glamorous when you're younger and you're just seeing it on set.

Of course, there are challenges, physical challenges, like the cold and all of that. But of course it's very different from what I imagined. Not in a bad way, in a very interesting and fascinating way, but it's different.

I feel people, you know, what they see is only one side of. You're seeing the best version. It's like Instagram. You're seeing the best version of everybody's life.

But there are a lot of challenges behind the camera that you face, everyone faces, every department faces, and that no one gets to see. And we don't want you to see that, because we want you to come to the movies and enjoy it. I mean, I would love for people to, you know, enjoy the movies as it is.

You don't need to know how hard we work to do that. Y'all are all working hard in your jobs as well, and I'm sure you're giving it your best. So there's, there's no.

I mean, you know, we don't have to make it sound so difficult. But there's, there are, of course, there are hardships there. It's not easy, it's not so glamorous.

And yeah, it. But it, but the fact that we can make it look like that, it's interesting. It's interesting, you know?

I mean, below the chiffon sarees, all the girls shivering while the men are suited and all of that. Have you I was so happy that we went to Kashmir and I got to wear, like, the jackets and the sweaters, and we kept it real for a change. Because I could just, like, just be.

You know, I wasn't like dying, even though I kind of was under those jackets also. I said, "Oh my God, I don't know how I've done it in the other songs and how we've managed." Host: Yeah. Have you ever figured out why women have to be in chiffon sarees and men get to, like, be fully clothed head to toe?

Kiara Advani: I feel it just looks amazing, no? I mean, it does. Like, come on. We.

I also wanted to wear the chiffon sarees. And how many times. Okay, this is what I this is what I've noticed about myself.

How many times have you. You know, you've done something and you're like, you know, you're just doing it for the heck of it. But when the camera's on, you'll sit straight, you'll be proper.

It's how it is. It's like even at the gym, if I'm working out. I'm saying this because we have, we have the same, we've had at least the same trainer at one point.

And I would work out with him and you know, so I'll be like, "No, yeah, no, I can't do one more set," and you know, "I'm tired" and "Let's, let's change it. No more squats, no more burpees for sure." But the minute he says, "Okay, let's make a video for Instagram," 50 burpees and I'm killing it.

I mean, I could be doing the next action film tomorrow. So it's just how it is. You're always putting out your best self in front of the camera.