Q. You played the role of a teacher with Tourette disorder. How did your way to deal with this character contrast from your approach to deal with the character that is played by you in Black?
-When I met individuals who experience the ill effects of hearing and discourse weaknesses or were outwardly hindered, not once did I feel they needed sensitivity since they didn’t think they had a handicap. It’s the same with Naina in Hichki. There isn’t much mindfulness about Tourette’s in India. With Hichki, I trust that progressions.
Q. Your film Hichki says that ‘there are no terrible understudies, just awful instructors’. Do you agree?
-Indeed. I trust that each youngster, regardless of financial, race, religion or station foundation, merits square with circumstance. It’s about time that instructors began treating youngsters similarly.
Q. How could you break the ice with the children, a large number of them first-time performing artists, in the cast?
-I didn’t meet them before the shoot. We didn’t need them to get excessively acquainted with me. The story develops wherein you see the friction and after that the solace. We endeavored to do that naturally.
Q. How were you as an understudy?
-I truly delighted in school. Geography and history were my most loved subjects. I generally endeavored to be the goody two shoes yet I wasn’t generally a frontbencher. That is on account of my school (Maneckji Cooper in Mumbai) was by the ocean and we as a whole needed the last seat where you could feel the ocean breeze.
