so much money pol University Jaipur for
having me here it’s a lovely day there’s
so much to learn and I feel privileged
to be here among one of you know best
speakers so many curious students
teachers dignitaries people from all
walks of life and there’s so much to
learn today I’d like to share a small
incident with all of you you know a lot
of times when you’re meeting strangers
when you’re meeting new people for me
they asked for visiting cards or
business cards and we often joke that
our visiting cards are our faces because
we are actors so and for those who know
me and for the ones who don’t my name is
Shweta Basu Prasad I’m 26 year old I’m
an actress by profession and I started
my career 15 years ago with the movie
called McCree by vishal bhardwaj in fact
this week of november is the 15th year
of macri’s release so now obviously I
didn’t choose to become an actress
because when I was shooting for McCree I
turned 11 we were shooting in January
member it was a Christmas New Year break
and that’s why I was allowed to do it
and my parents come from a theatre
background my father is a civil engineer
by a qualification and he chose to be
you know he loves her – he’s a Shriram
Centre diploma holder for acting and
direction my mother is a writer and a
Western classical pianist she’s a
musician so for me it was very
accessible for me art was very
accessible literature music you know I
grew up with rich occasionally films and
VML dry movies and reading Saturday 3 is
falooda so my father when he you know
used to conduct theater and plays I used
to I used to come in as fillers – dancer
model Dikshit numbers and when people
when guests and relatives came home I
used to mimic them so my parents saw
that I had a knack for acting and they
thought maybe you know maybe I
and I’m you know maybe I could just do
it for some time and now mockery
happened by accident my parents had gone
in for a meeting I was sitting in the
lobby I was asked to audition for
something just for the sake of it and I
was directly cast for mockery and then
then there’s that’s what’s been rolling
when mercury released I didn’t realize
what was happening you know there was
Savannah’s me and bizarre sob with all
due respect I didn’t even know their
body of work and then boom I won the
national award and received it from dr.
APJ Abdul Kalam Saab and I was 12 years
old and I didn’t know what it meant you
know in my school you know the principal
announced it on the speaker that you
know Bertha’s won this award and there
was this I’d won our other awards as
well but I didn’t know what it meant it
was only recently that I knew it was
really prestigious because my parents
always kept it under the covers and they
were very very protective about myself
and you know not losing my sanity about
the whole you know stardom that you
receive our success of whatever level
that I’d received at the age of 12 and
they told me it’s a very normal
government award you know government
gives children medals when they do films
and I I bought it so it was holy
recently that I realized that it was a
really prestigious award and after that
Iqbal came up and my parents were like
she’s definitely not going to act now
and until she’s going to complete her
graduation and just like you know acting
worked out accidentally and just worked
out because I had a knack for mimicking
and you know dancing and whatever I also
sketch and write and I enjoyed
photography so my mother recommended
that I you know I choose bmm Bachelors
of mass media and journalism as my
stream for for graduation and that’s
when I did Sikkim Manipal university’s
distance education program for
completing my grads and that’s been my
journey as an actor and that’s my first
topic that I’m going to discuss is do
what you love it is really important to
to love your job you cannot you cannot
just you know take up a job just for the
heck of it because it is recommended or
you have to do it even today when I go
on and said I’m so excited I’m so
curious I want to know everything I want
to know how the camera works how are
things gonna happen I’m so excited and
looking forward to the character that
I’m going to portray the people I’m
going to need you know how is it going
to happen and that curiosity that that
you know that that then I’m going on to
an adventure I wake up in the morning
with excitement and not a single dull
moment has really got me going that was
you know an accident to a hobby as a kid
as a teenager to a profession to my
career today
acting today is my bread and butter and
jam so I think that’s my first you know
you know I wouldn’t say twice I mean all
of you are my brother is doing second
year BBA he’s 20 he’s like all of you
and my cousin’s starting here so I think
it’s my first experience that I’d like
to share that I you know what I’ve
personally learned from life is that you
surely have to love your job you have to
get up in the morning and look forward
to the day that’s the first part for the
second topic I’d request to please play
the AV rolling
[Music]
Mullaly Davila
[Music]
India the land of history cultures and
music the Indian classical music has
traveled and evolved since time
every error ever since has experienced
these age-old classical art forms
[Music]
I’m not interested in classical music I
don’t have much idea about the Indian
classical music it seems boring it’s for
the people not for this generation
we are really a poverty-stricken nation
when it comes to passing down cultural
inheritance we’re becoming like that
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
yeah bargaining here vodka salsa to meet
a hot poker lina maria PGA Tour de
manana
I’m your past don’t leave me behind
the carry me with you the near future to
God can I thank you now drooling yeah
now the only reason that I wanted to
show you this was it he just become a
little more interactive instead of me
spelling out the names and my motive to
make this documentary film I don’t mean
to promote it I do mean to promote
classical music but not the film on this
podium but my second important topic
here is your hobby you know just because
you have a job and you’re busy today
does not mean that you let go of your
hobbies I mean there are so many things
that we do as children we like painting
we like singing we like writing and
trust me I mean there are times that you
know you have breaks in between job I
mean you know you may be quite a job
somewhere you have time to find your
next do not let that be a dull period
for me the transition between you know
Iqbal and then the studies and
graduation and when I was studying vmm
obviously introduced to you know
photography and interviewing and
journalism and documentaries and short
films and I thought let me use that time
to just do something that I personally
felt was really important about the
declining popularity of Indian classical
music amongst youth today I am I used to
learn sitar Hindustani classical music
and I’m I’ve been an ardent fan of
classical music myself grown up with it
around me so I just felt the need for it
I don’t know whether acting is a hobby
or the B mmm you know what I’ve learned
from the BM is a hobby or wave but it’s
other way around but what I really mean
to say is that don’t let go of an
opportunity if you have to explore
something you know travel read if you
feel that you know volunteering at a
shelter for animals or you know if you
feel that you just want to go for an
expedition and you know you want to
click pictures and you’ll make a short
documentary you it can be a stepping
stone for you for me roots when I was
making it I founded it myself I
not because I have any aspirations to
become a filmmaker but because for the
love of classical music but I learned so
much as an actor I think it added so
much quality to understanding it
technically so what I really mean to say
is that you know when you’re doing
anything just use it as a stepping stone
to you know chisel yourself you know
treat yourself as a sculptor and treat
yourself as you know you’re constantly
brushing yourself up with with whatever
you’re doing I you know I worked with
Phantom films while the documentaries
post-production was going on as a script
consultant and it is absolutely not
related to me being an actor but the
scripts that I you know read at phantom
it made me understand so much about how
often you know script should be viewed
as an artist and maybe I’m saying a lot
of things that are not related to the
things that you do but I’m just speaking
out of experience that no experience no
work is ever too small is ever too lame
or you know redundant you you have to
you have to capture it and squeeze it
muscle it and use it to your best
benefit use it as a stepping stone and
thrive towards where you know where you
want to reach through that so and
another part is that I also have you
know I also started producing so I
co-produced this short film called
interior cafe night which is on YouTube
and I also happen to star in it so I
think I think you know creating work for
yourself you know it’s not necessary
that you always be employed for somebody
you can always have your own startups
you can also you know if I become a
producer I can create work I can also
create work for myself
so I think it’s always I think it’s
advisable that you you know you look at
all aspects you know you have a
360-degree view when you’re thinking
about a career it could be a job it
could be your hobby it could be
something that you look forward to doing
it’s something that you you know you
like doing as a kid somebody commented
or you know you want to
your own job you want to do your own
thing and that brings me to the third
topic and the third topic is sort of
divided into two the first part being
how do we measure success now okay you
do the job that you love it’s a dream
job you’ve got the best you know
whatever you wanted
oh you pursue your hobby and make that
your career but what are the parameters
of success so for me as an actress if I
don’t have tell me 10 million follows a
Instagram what do i do like that can’t
be the end of the world for me so you
know maybe another actress has 10
million 20 million followers on Twitter
or Instagram oh is it like a car or is
it like a building or is it Mark
Zuckerberg or is it Bill Gates or is it
Mooji what is it I feel that your
success the parameters of success can be
set only by you it can be set only by
you if you feel that you deserve a pat
on your back for something that you’ve
done and you feel that it it makes you
feel accomplished it is a satisfying
experience and you know you you whenever
you look back you look back at it as an
important experience for me roots is
that I spent five years of my life
between 20 to 25 you know working on
this researching getting all the
maestro’s together interviewing them
funding it by myself editing it out
everything and I missed out on a lot of
acting opportunities so maybe I missed
out on some other kind of success but
for me this movie today when I see it on
Netflix and I see people talking about
it for me it’s something that I look at
it as an accomplishment it was you know
it’s not like it’s got me a pot of gold
or anything it’s not like I’ve suddenly
it was an investment and I have
something you rich or anything it’s none
of that it’s not even break even with
the budget honestly but but for me it’s
it’s it’s a success you know whenever I
look back at it it’ll be a fond memory
so for me I have set my parameters of
success you know for completing a film
and you know like so said earlier when
he was introducing the TED talk that
about the focus that what do you do you
focus largely or you just you know you
can sigh sit you make
it what are you doing at the moment as
actors we never think about the movie
that okay yay yay yay yay yay caringly I
thought it seen me you know where this
is to us and they’re gonna spend
shooting for this scene and this is how
we’re going to prepare it we concentrate
on that one shot and that one shot for
15 seconds could be just looking at
somebody or an object or picking up
somebody walking out of the door but I
put my hundred and one percent in that
15 seconds of shot and those 15 seconds
30 seconds one minutes and those you
know when you compile those minutes
becomes a one big movie and when you
give hundred percent in every shot which
becomes every scene becomes you know 100
percent effort to an entire film and
that’s what you know we need to really
do we need to really put a hundred
percent in those 15 seconds of whatever
we are doing they are you know it’s our
exam that one answer that really
deserves 18 marks or 15 marks 10 marks
give it you a hundred percent and look
for the 25 marks question answers later
but give give you a hundred percent to
that first the second part of my third
topic is are we building the India that
we wish to live in I mean as youth I
think we’re responsible because we are
building the future so do we really want
to build apps on makeup that can hide
your blemishes or do we want to make a
safety app do we want to build more
towers or do we want to build more you
know more parks or you know I think I
think when you’re doing your job are you
posting your hobby you need to reflect
you need to stop and reflect and ask
yourself a question I usually building
are you really being a global citizen
are you really giving back to the to the
country to the community to your to your
society in whatever form that is and
that is not taxes that you pay anyway
but we are talking about how do we give
them how do we give back I mean are you
volunteering or you know teaching
somebody something new for me I think
when I participate in good movies
have sort of a social message it’s my
way of communicating to a larger
audience about you know like a movie
like a bond or when I make a film like
roots where I feel that you know
probably this could be the last
generation to know about classical music
perhaps seeing its declining popularity
I feel something so I do about it so
question yourself what are you doing
with your job I usually giving back to
the society are you leaving something
for the next generation so yeah I think
that’s about it that’s my TED talk I
hope it was just to talk and not
something that I spoke from my personal
experiences and what I felt my journey
so far and my only sort of advice to
everybody here and all the students here
is that read explore travel you have no
idea how much you’re going to gain from
that travel your country travel by road
if possible risk it you feel something
is worth risking risk it you want to
quit your job quit it you feel this is
not you want this is not what you want
to do that is something where you want
to do go for it maybe not immediate but
later in life in the long term you’ll be
happier and in your own parameters you
will be successful thank you so much
you
you
having me here it’s a lovely day there’s
so much to learn and I feel privileged
to be here among one of you know best
speakers so many curious students
teachers dignitaries people from all
walks of life and there’s so much to
learn today I’d like to share a small
incident with all of you you know a lot
of times when you’re meeting strangers
when you’re meeting new people for me
they asked for visiting cards or
business cards and we often joke that
our visiting cards are our faces because
we are actors so and for those who know
me and for the ones who don’t my name is
Shweta Basu Prasad I’m 26 year old I’m
an actress by profession and I started
my career 15 years ago with the movie
called McCree by vishal bhardwaj in fact
this week of november is the 15th year
of macri’s release so now obviously I
didn’t choose to become an actress
because when I was shooting for McCree I
turned 11 we were shooting in January
member it was a Christmas New Year break
and that’s why I was allowed to do it
and my parents come from a theatre
background my father is a civil engineer
by a qualification and he chose to be
you know he loves her – he’s a Shriram
Centre diploma holder for acting and
direction my mother is a writer and a
Western classical pianist she’s a
musician so for me it was very
accessible for me art was very
accessible literature music you know I
grew up with rich occasionally films and
VML dry movies and reading Saturday 3 is
falooda so my father when he you know
used to conduct theater and plays I used
to I used to come in as fillers – dancer
model Dikshit numbers and when people
when guests and relatives came home I
used to mimic them so my parents saw
that I had a knack for acting and they
thought maybe you know maybe I
and I’m you know maybe I could just do
it for some time and now mockery
happened by accident my parents had gone
in for a meeting I was sitting in the
lobby I was asked to audition for
something just for the sake of it and I
was directly cast for mockery and then
then there’s that’s what’s been rolling
when mercury released I didn’t realize
what was happening you know there was
Savannah’s me and bizarre sob with all
due respect I didn’t even know their
body of work and then boom I won the
national award and received it from dr.
APJ Abdul Kalam Saab and I was 12 years
old and I didn’t know what it meant you
know in my school you know the principal
announced it on the speaker that you
know Bertha’s won this award and there
was this I’d won our other awards as
well but I didn’t know what it meant it
was only recently that I knew it was
really prestigious because my parents
always kept it under the covers and they
were very very protective about myself
and you know not losing my sanity about
the whole you know stardom that you
receive our success of whatever level
that I’d received at the age of 12 and
they told me it’s a very normal
government award you know government
gives children medals when they do films
and I I bought it so it was holy
recently that I realized that it was a
really prestigious award and after that
Iqbal came up and my parents were like
she’s definitely not going to act now
and until she’s going to complete her
graduation and just like you know acting
worked out accidentally and just worked
out because I had a knack for mimicking
and you know dancing and whatever I also
sketch and write and I enjoyed
photography so my mother recommended
that I you know I choose bmm Bachelors
of mass media and journalism as my
stream for for graduation and that’s
when I did Sikkim Manipal university’s
distance education program for
completing my grads and that’s been my
journey as an actor and that’s my first
topic that I’m going to discuss is do
what you love it is really important to
to love your job you cannot you cannot
just you know take up a job just for the
heck of it because it is recommended or
you have to do it even today when I go
on and said I’m so excited I’m so
curious I want to know everything I want
to know how the camera works how are
things gonna happen I’m so excited and
looking forward to the character that
I’m going to portray the people I’m
going to need you know how is it going
to happen and that curiosity that that
you know that that then I’m going on to
an adventure I wake up in the morning
with excitement and not a single dull
moment has really got me going that was
you know an accident to a hobby as a kid
as a teenager to a profession to my
career today
acting today is my bread and butter and
jam so I think that’s my first you know
you know I wouldn’t say twice I mean all
of you are my brother is doing second
year BBA he’s 20 he’s like all of you
and my cousin’s starting here so I think
it’s my first experience that I’d like
to share that I you know what I’ve
personally learned from life is that you
surely have to love your job you have to
get up in the morning and look forward
to the day that’s the first part for the
second topic I’d request to please play
the AV rolling
[Music]
Mullaly Davila
[Music]
India the land of history cultures and
music the Indian classical music has
traveled and evolved since time
every error ever since has experienced
these age-old classical art forms
[Music]
I’m not interested in classical music I
don’t have much idea about the Indian
classical music it seems boring it’s for
the people not for this generation
we are really a poverty-stricken nation
when it comes to passing down cultural
inheritance we’re becoming like that
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
yeah bargaining here vodka salsa to meet
a hot poker lina maria PGA Tour de
manana
I’m your past don’t leave me behind
the carry me with you the near future to
God can I thank you now drooling yeah
now the only reason that I wanted to
show you this was it he just become a
little more interactive instead of me
spelling out the names and my motive to
make this documentary film I don’t mean
to promote it I do mean to promote
classical music but not the film on this
podium but my second important topic
here is your hobby you know just because
you have a job and you’re busy today
does not mean that you let go of your
hobbies I mean there are so many things
that we do as children we like painting
we like singing we like writing and
trust me I mean there are times that you
know you have breaks in between job I
mean you know you may be quite a job
somewhere you have time to find your
next do not let that be a dull period
for me the transition between you know
Iqbal and then the studies and
graduation and when I was studying vmm
obviously introduced to you know
photography and interviewing and
journalism and documentaries and short
films and I thought let me use that time
to just do something that I personally
felt was really important about the
declining popularity of Indian classical
music amongst youth today I am I used to
learn sitar Hindustani classical music
and I’m I’ve been an ardent fan of
classical music myself grown up with it
around me so I just felt the need for it
I don’t know whether acting is a hobby
or the B mmm you know what I’ve learned
from the BM is a hobby or wave but it’s
other way around but what I really mean
to say is that don’t let go of an
opportunity if you have to explore
something you know travel read if you
feel that you know volunteering at a
shelter for animals or you know if you
feel that you just want to go for an
expedition and you know you want to
click pictures and you’ll make a short
documentary you it can be a stepping
stone for you for me roots when I was
making it I founded it myself I
not because I have any aspirations to
become a filmmaker but because for the
love of classical music but I learned so
much as an actor I think it added so
much quality to understanding it
technically so what I really mean to say
is that you know when you’re doing
anything just use it as a stepping stone
to you know chisel yourself you know
treat yourself as a sculptor and treat
yourself as you know you’re constantly
brushing yourself up with with whatever
you’re doing I you know I worked with
Phantom films while the documentaries
post-production was going on as a script
consultant and it is absolutely not
related to me being an actor but the
scripts that I you know read at phantom
it made me understand so much about how
often you know script should be viewed
as an artist and maybe I’m saying a lot
of things that are not related to the
things that you do but I’m just speaking
out of experience that no experience no
work is ever too small is ever too lame
or you know redundant you you have to
you have to capture it and squeeze it
muscle it and use it to your best
benefit use it as a stepping stone and
thrive towards where you know where you
want to reach through that so and
another part is that I also have you
know I also started producing so I
co-produced this short film called
interior cafe night which is on YouTube
and I also happen to star in it so I
think I think you know creating work for
yourself you know it’s not necessary
that you always be employed for somebody
you can always have your own startups
you can also you know if I become a
producer I can create work I can also
create work for myself
so I think it’s always I think it’s
advisable that you you know you look at
all aspects you know you have a
360-degree view when you’re thinking
about a career it could be a job it
could be your hobby it could be
something that you look forward to doing
it’s something that you you know you
like doing as a kid somebody commented
or you know you want to
your own job you want to do your own
thing and that brings me to the third
topic and the third topic is sort of
divided into two the first part being
how do we measure success now okay you
do the job that you love it’s a dream
job you’ve got the best you know
whatever you wanted
oh you pursue your hobby and make that
your career but what are the parameters
of success so for me as an actress if I
don’t have tell me 10 million follows a
Instagram what do i do like that can’t
be the end of the world for me so you
know maybe another actress has 10
million 20 million followers on Twitter
or Instagram oh is it like a car or is
it like a building or is it Mark
Zuckerberg or is it Bill Gates or is it
Mooji what is it I feel that your
success the parameters of success can be
set only by you it can be set only by
you if you feel that you deserve a pat
on your back for something that you’ve
done and you feel that it it makes you
feel accomplished it is a satisfying
experience and you know you you whenever
you look back you look back at it as an
important experience for me roots is
that I spent five years of my life
between 20 to 25 you know working on
this researching getting all the
maestro’s together interviewing them
funding it by myself editing it out
everything and I missed out on a lot of
acting opportunities so maybe I missed
out on some other kind of success but
for me this movie today when I see it on
Netflix and I see people talking about
it for me it’s something that I look at
it as an accomplishment it was you know
it’s not like it’s got me a pot of gold
or anything it’s not like I’ve suddenly
it was an investment and I have
something you rich or anything it’s none
of that it’s not even break even with
the budget honestly but but for me it’s
it’s it’s a success you know whenever I
look back at it it’ll be a fond memory
so for me I have set my parameters of
success you know for completing a film
and you know like so said earlier when
he was introducing the TED talk that
about the focus that what do you do you
focus largely or you just you know you
can sigh sit you make
it what are you doing at the moment as
actors we never think about the movie
that okay yay yay yay yay yay caringly I
thought it seen me you know where this
is to us and they’re gonna spend
shooting for this scene and this is how
we’re going to prepare it we concentrate
on that one shot and that one shot for
15 seconds could be just looking at
somebody or an object or picking up
somebody walking out of the door but I
put my hundred and one percent in that
15 seconds of shot and those 15 seconds
30 seconds one minutes and those you
know when you compile those minutes
becomes a one big movie and when you
give hundred percent in every shot which
becomes every scene becomes you know 100
percent effort to an entire film and
that’s what you know we need to really
do we need to really put a hundred
percent in those 15 seconds of whatever
we are doing they are you know it’s our
exam that one answer that really
deserves 18 marks or 15 marks 10 marks
give it you a hundred percent and look
for the 25 marks question answers later
but give give you a hundred percent to
that first the second part of my third
topic is are we building the India that
we wish to live in I mean as youth I
think we’re responsible because we are
building the future so do we really want
to build apps on makeup that can hide
your blemishes or do we want to make a
safety app do we want to build more
towers or do we want to build more you
know more parks or you know I think I
think when you’re doing your job are you
posting your hobby you need to reflect
you need to stop and reflect and ask
yourself a question I usually building
are you really being a global citizen
are you really giving back to the to the
country to the community to your to your
society in whatever form that is and
that is not taxes that you pay anyway
but we are talking about how do we give
them how do we give back I mean are you
volunteering or you know teaching
somebody something new for me I think
when I participate in good movies
have sort of a social message it’s my
way of communicating to a larger
audience about you know like a movie
like a bond or when I make a film like
roots where I feel that you know
probably this could be the last
generation to know about classical music
perhaps seeing its declining popularity
I feel something so I do about it so
question yourself what are you doing
with your job I usually giving back to
the society are you leaving something
for the next generation so yeah I think
that’s about it that’s my TED talk I
hope it was just to talk and not
something that I spoke from my personal
experiences and what I felt my journey
so far and my only sort of advice to
everybody here and all the students here
is that read explore travel you have no
idea how much you’re going to gain from
that travel your country travel by road
if possible risk it you feel something
is worth risking risk it you want to
quit your job quit it you feel this is
not you want this is not what you want
to do that is something where you want
to do go for it maybe not immediate but
later in life in the long term you’ll be
happier and in your own parameters you
will be successful thank you so much
you
you
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