[Music]
[Applause]
it’s exciting and intimidating both exciting because I’m in Hyderabad
exciting because I’m in Hyderabad intimidating because I’m speaking for
intimidating because I’m speaking for the first time
the first time uninterrupted without being asked thank
uninterrupted without being asked thank you so there’s speakers with great
you so there’s speakers with great significant jobs general mika singh ji
significant jobs general mika singh ji is here and so many speakers with the
is here and so many speakers with the jobs that impact society impact the
jobs that impact society impact the world and for a long time I always
world and for a long time I always wanted to or thought that I do better as
wanted to or thought that I do better as a professional a doctor or an astronaut
a professional a doctor or an astronaut or a research analyst because I thought
or a research analyst because I thought I’d have more to give to society and
I’d have more to give to society and like lot of people think that acting is
like lot of people think that acting is not a real job but looking back looking
not a real job but looking back looking back at my life and my journey through
back at my life and my journey through my life I understand that I wouldn’t
my life I understand that I wouldn’t have it any other way and that the
have it any other way and that the amount of times that I have been reborn
amount of times that I have been reborn and had rebirths was through my
and had rebirths was through my characters through the different roles
characters through the different roles that I played and through the journey of
that I played and through the journey of the character that I went through each
the character that I went through each time and looking back I understand that
time and looking back I understand that that’s where all the rethinking happened
that’s where all the rethinking happened I think rethinking is as natural as life
I think rethinking is as natural as life itself it’s happening as we live as we
itself it’s happening as we live as we grow as we speak but I am definitely
grow as we speak but I am definitely going to talk about a few things that in
going to talk about a few things that in my life that have had significant
my life that have had significant Oh impact in my growth for my journey to
Oh impact in my growth for my journey to begin with I have think what is
begin with I have think what is important is to have clarity about why
important is to have clarity about why you’re doing what you’re doing
you’re doing what you’re doing to be clear about the purpose and
secondly and the most important and the dearest to me is submission to the
dearest to me is submission to the creative process which has been the most
creative process which has been the most gratifying part of my life
gratifying part of my life to give myself and immerse myself to
to give myself and immerse myself to every character that I played and not to
every character that I played and not to be worried or engaged in the outcome or
be worried or engaged in the outcome or the result of what you’re doing or what
the result of what you’re doing or what you’re going to be doing the creative
you’re going to be doing the creative process is completely immersive but it’s
process is completely immersive but it’s also it can also be frightening
also it can also be frightening sometimes and you’re not really prepared
sometimes and you’re not really prepared where it’s going to take you in your
where it’s going to take you in your journey but that’s where life is
journey but that’s where life is happening and sometimes it totally
happening and sometimes it totally breaks you like a few of my characters
breaks you like a few of my characters did Maqbool who toto
did Maqbool who toto Heather namesake
[Music] they really deconstruct you they have
they really deconstruct you they have the power to deconstruct you break you
the power to deconstruct you break you internally so that you’re born again and
internally so that you’re born again and you’re becoming your mass and you forget
you’re becoming your mass and you forget everything about everything that you
everything about everything that you knew that existed
knew that existed it could mean breaking the morality of
it could mean breaking the morality of the previous character or how you live
the previous character or how you live in society and that’s what each of my
in society and that’s what each of my characters did to me because I allowed
characters did to me because I allowed them to do that to me and I think what
them to do that to me and I think what has enriched me the most is to is that I
has enriched me the most is to is that I have allowed myself to experience all
have allowed myself to experience all these characters and their darkness
these characters and their darkness their craziness they love their passion
their craziness they love their passion their anger and whatever they wanted to
their anger and whatever they wanted to speak and I sort of looking back I
speak and I sort of looking back I understand that I became like a vessel
understand that I became like a vessel for these characters to speak and it’s
for these characters to speak and it’s been the most enriching experience and
been the most enriching experience and maybe because I was always hungry for
maybe because I was always hungry for new experiences and I was not frightened
new experiences and I was not frightened and that what has made me a new new
and that what has made me a new new person and changed the way I live in the
person and changed the way I live in the world and I am eternally grateful to all
world and I am eternally grateful to all the roles that have played all the
the roles that have played all the characters that I have done and all the
characters that I have done and all the journeys that I have taken personally
journeys that I have taken personally professionally keeping myself open to
professionally keeping myself open to every experience not knowing where is
every experience not knowing where is going to take me sometimes you feel this
going to take me sometimes you feel this experience is going to be great and it
experience is going to be great and it turns out to be completely frightening
turns out to be completely frightening like Maqbool and Heather that really
like Maqbool and Heather that really break you apart and then you get sense
break you apart and then you get sense of who you are again after you’re done
of who you are again after you’re done with the process sometimes you’re scared
with the process sometimes you’re scared of an experience but it turns out to be
of an experience but it turns out to be amazing
amazing Life of Pi was runs at experience spoke
Life of Pi was runs at experience spoke about bioluminescence and it makes me so
about bioluminescence and it makes me so proud and also the film that I did the
proud and also the film that I did the ideology is that these films carried
ideology is that these films carried with them the politics that they carried
with them the politics that they carried really made me belong to a world that
really made me belong to a world that was far greater than me it gave me a
was far greater than me it gave me a chance to connect to something that’s
chance to connect to something that’s far bigger took me outside of myself and
the third most important thing that I have understood and I have learnt is to
have understood and I have learnt is to be completely disengaged from the the
be completely disengaged from the the outcome and the result of what you’re
outcome and the result of what you’re going to do because that really I mean
going to do because that really I mean it sounds like a cliche but really it’s
it sounds like a cliche but really it’s not in your hands there is no plan and
not in your hands there is no plan and things will mostly never go according to
things will mostly never go according to plan I never planned to be an actress
plan I never planned to be an actress I never planned I never expected or
I never planned I never expected or thought that I’d will win the Padma
thought that I’d will win the Padma Shree one day or
Shree one day or [Music]
[Music] [Applause]
[Applause] [Music]
[Music] have these though wonderful adjectives
have these though wonderful adjectives added to my name in my repertoire and in
added to my name in my repertoire and in my introduction it was never the plan
my introduction it was never the plan and it happened I didn’t aspire for it
and it happened I didn’t aspire for it so I guess I am I am understanding that
so I guess I am I am understanding that it happened as an outcome of what I was
it happened as an outcome of what I was doing of being completely immersed in
doing of being completely immersed in the creative process of acting of
the creative process of acting of performing a role doing it sincerely and
performing a role doing it sincerely and completely being divorced from where
completely being divorced from where it’s going to take me I did not know I
it’s going to take me I did not know I had no clue where my career is gonna
had no clue where my career is gonna take me where this film is gonna take me
take me where this film is gonna take me where this character is gonna take me
where this character is gonna take me where this director is gonna take me
where this director is gonna take me where my performance is gonna take me so
where my performance is gonna take me so really there is no plan and that’s the
really there is no plan and that’s the way to work it is difficult to stay
way to work it is difficult to stay disengaged from the outcome we can hope
disengaged from the outcome we can hope for an outcome but we cannot plan it and
for an outcome but we cannot plan it and that’s the biggest lesson I have learnt
that’s the biggest lesson I have learnt to be in the process so that the process
to be in the process so that the process itself becomes the outcome and becomes
itself becomes the outcome and becomes the result of what you are aspiring to
the result of what you are aspiring to do thank you
do thank you you
you [Applause]
[Applause]
it’s exciting and intimidating both exciting because I’m in Hyderabad
exciting because I’m in Hyderabad intimidating because I’m speaking for
intimidating because I’m speaking for the first time
the first time uninterrupted without being asked thank
uninterrupted without being asked thank you so there’s speakers with great
you so there’s speakers with great significant jobs general mika singh ji
significant jobs general mika singh ji is here and so many speakers with the
is here and so many speakers with the jobs that impact society impact the
jobs that impact society impact the world and for a long time I always
world and for a long time I always wanted to or thought that I do better as
wanted to or thought that I do better as a professional a doctor or an astronaut
a professional a doctor or an astronaut or a research analyst because I thought
or a research analyst because I thought I’d have more to give to society and
I’d have more to give to society and like lot of people think that acting is
like lot of people think that acting is not a real job but looking back looking
not a real job but looking back looking back at my life and my journey through
back at my life and my journey through my life I understand that I wouldn’t
my life I understand that I wouldn’t have it any other way and that the
have it any other way and that the amount of times that I have been reborn
amount of times that I have been reborn and had rebirths was through my
and had rebirths was through my characters through the different roles
characters through the different roles that I played and through the journey of
that I played and through the journey of the character that I went through each
the character that I went through each time and looking back I understand that
time and looking back I understand that that’s where all the rethinking happened
that’s where all the rethinking happened I think rethinking is as natural as life
I think rethinking is as natural as life itself it’s happening as we live as we
itself it’s happening as we live as we grow as we speak but I am definitely
grow as we speak but I am definitely going to talk about a few things that in
going to talk about a few things that in my life that have had significant
my life that have had significant Oh impact in my growth for my journey to
Oh impact in my growth for my journey to begin with I have think what is
begin with I have think what is important is to have clarity about why
important is to have clarity about why you’re doing what you’re doing
you’re doing what you’re doing to be clear about the purpose and
secondly and the most important and the dearest to me is submission to the
dearest to me is submission to the creative process which has been the most
creative process which has been the most gratifying part of my life
gratifying part of my life to give myself and immerse myself to
to give myself and immerse myself to every character that I played and not to
every character that I played and not to be worried or engaged in the outcome or
be worried or engaged in the outcome or the result of what you’re doing or what
the result of what you’re doing or what you’re going to be doing the creative
you’re going to be doing the creative process is completely immersive but it’s
process is completely immersive but it’s also it can also be frightening
also it can also be frightening sometimes and you’re not really prepared
sometimes and you’re not really prepared where it’s going to take you in your
where it’s going to take you in your journey but that’s where life is
journey but that’s where life is happening and sometimes it totally
happening and sometimes it totally breaks you like a few of my characters
breaks you like a few of my characters did Maqbool who toto
did Maqbool who toto Heather namesake
[Music] they really deconstruct you they have
they really deconstruct you they have the power to deconstruct you break you
the power to deconstruct you break you internally so that you’re born again and
internally so that you’re born again and you’re becoming your mass and you forget
you’re becoming your mass and you forget everything about everything that you
everything about everything that you knew that existed
knew that existed it could mean breaking the morality of
it could mean breaking the morality of the previous character or how you live
the previous character or how you live in society and that’s what each of my
in society and that’s what each of my characters did to me because I allowed
characters did to me because I allowed them to do that to me and I think what
them to do that to me and I think what has enriched me the most is to is that I
has enriched me the most is to is that I have allowed myself to experience all
have allowed myself to experience all these characters and their darkness
these characters and their darkness their craziness they love their passion
their craziness they love their passion their anger and whatever they wanted to
their anger and whatever they wanted to speak and I sort of looking back I
speak and I sort of looking back I understand that I became like a vessel
understand that I became like a vessel for these characters to speak and it’s
for these characters to speak and it’s been the most enriching experience and
been the most enriching experience and maybe because I was always hungry for
maybe because I was always hungry for new experiences and I was not frightened
new experiences and I was not frightened and that what has made me a new new
and that what has made me a new new person and changed the way I live in the
person and changed the way I live in the world and I am eternally grateful to all
world and I am eternally grateful to all the roles that have played all the
the roles that have played all the characters that I have done and all the
characters that I have done and all the journeys that I have taken personally
journeys that I have taken personally professionally keeping myself open to
professionally keeping myself open to every experience not knowing where is
every experience not knowing where is going to take me sometimes you feel this
going to take me sometimes you feel this experience is going to be great and it
experience is going to be great and it turns out to be completely frightening
turns out to be completely frightening like Maqbool and Heather that really
like Maqbool and Heather that really break you apart and then you get sense
break you apart and then you get sense of who you are again after you’re done
of who you are again after you’re done with the process sometimes you’re scared
with the process sometimes you’re scared of an experience but it turns out to be
of an experience but it turns out to be amazing
amazing Life of Pi was runs at experience spoke
Life of Pi was runs at experience spoke about bioluminescence and it makes me so
about bioluminescence and it makes me so proud and also the film that I did the
proud and also the film that I did the ideology is that these films carried
ideology is that these films carried with them the politics that they carried
with them the politics that they carried really made me belong to a world that
really made me belong to a world that was far greater than me it gave me a
was far greater than me it gave me a chance to connect to something that’s
chance to connect to something that’s far bigger took me outside of myself and
the third most important thing that I have understood and I have learnt is to
have understood and I have learnt is to be completely disengaged from the the
be completely disengaged from the the outcome and the result of what you’re
outcome and the result of what you’re going to do because that really I mean
going to do because that really I mean it sounds like a cliche but really it’s
it sounds like a cliche but really it’s not in your hands there is no plan and
not in your hands there is no plan and things will mostly never go according to
things will mostly never go according to plan I never planned to be an actress
plan I never planned to be an actress I never planned I never expected or
I never planned I never expected or thought that I’d will win the Padma
thought that I’d will win the Padma Shree one day or
Shree one day or [Music]
[Music] [Applause]
[Applause] [Music]
[Music] have these though wonderful adjectives
have these though wonderful adjectives added to my name in my repertoire and in
added to my name in my repertoire and in my introduction it was never the plan
my introduction it was never the plan and it happened I didn’t aspire for it
and it happened I didn’t aspire for it so I guess I am I am understanding that
so I guess I am I am understanding that it happened as an outcome of what I was
it happened as an outcome of what I was doing of being completely immersed in
doing of being completely immersed in the creative process of acting of
the creative process of acting of performing a role doing it sincerely and
performing a role doing it sincerely and completely being divorced from where
completely being divorced from where it’s going to take me I did not know I
it’s going to take me I did not know I had no clue where my career is gonna
had no clue where my career is gonna take me where this film is gonna take me
take me where this film is gonna take me where this character is gonna take me
where this character is gonna take me where this director is gonna take me
where this director is gonna take me where my performance is gonna take me so
where my performance is gonna take me so really there is no plan and that’s the
really there is no plan and that’s the way to work it is difficult to stay
way to work it is difficult to stay disengaged from the outcome we can hope
disengaged from the outcome we can hope for an outcome but we cannot plan it and
for an outcome but we cannot plan it and that’s the biggest lesson I have learnt
that’s the biggest lesson I have learnt to be in the process so that the process
to be in the process so that the process itself becomes the outcome and becomes
itself becomes the outcome and becomes the result of what you are aspiring to
the result of what you are aspiring to do thank you
do thank you you
you [Applause]
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