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no one has my DNA so why the hell am i

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comparing myself to anybody else right

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I’m me and I can be the best me no one

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else can be me and what I bring is my

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beauty and my uniqueness and no one can

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take that away from you so focus on that

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focus on what makes you you I grew up on

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Bollywood and I grew up singing and

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dancing and where can I put the two

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together it was in Bombay for me so I

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entered a pageant I won the pageant won

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the world pageant and then I went to

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Bombay I was really lucky to have worked

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with a slew of incredible people in

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Bombay I’ve done over I don’t know like

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50 ads with some top stars and then

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films short films theater and then I

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fell into daily television on Indian TV

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so I was a soap opera actress for about

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two years in India people know me

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because of Satnam vana Satya Sathya for

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a short was what the TV show the daily

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soap opera was called and that was on in

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one of India’s like largest channels

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Star Plus so primetime TV soap opera it

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was crazy actually you know cuz I played

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like a negative character and I played

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like the the mean the mean boohoo

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daughter-in-law the mean

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daughter-in-law from abroad and it got

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people get so into soap operas over

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there that they really think that it’s

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real so one time me and my co actress we

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were just walking down the bandstand

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which is like like their boardwalk and

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we had these auntie’s come up to us and

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we’re like okay we are one side in Hindi

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they were like oh my god you guys you’re

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so bad you’re doing all these bad things

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how dare you do that and why are you

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poisoning or and leave her alone she’s

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such a good girl you guys are bad bad

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bad we’re like oh my god you’re about to

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hit us and we gotta be careful but you

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know the way I took it at that one I’m

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like at least people are resonating with

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my character enough so maybe I’m doing a

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decent job that they actually think I’m

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evil so

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that was always fun we broadcast 365

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days a year like the show that I was on

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was the number one show on one of the

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number-one channels 365 days so I was

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shooting like 23 24 27 days sometimes

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and the turnaround time is ridiculous

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like you shoot some sometimes like if

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there was like a like an emergency they

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had to shoot something send it off and

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it would be in the night’s telecast like

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it would be like that crazy then they

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would like do a 7:00 a.m. shift just so

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that they could get that sent off for

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broadcast so it’s crazy like typically

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what we shoot will broadcast two days

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later typically so that’s it and you’re

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shooting all the time

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it’s crazy it was an experience that has

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made me a better person for sure it was

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nothing like I had ever imagined I

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thought I was Indian but really when you

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go there you realize I’m Canadian

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I don’t know how this world operates at

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all so it was a lot of cultural

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adaptation for me and cultural learning

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of course there was a language because

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they I mean India is the largest

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english-speaking country in the world

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like it has a most number of English

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speakers but still they speak Hindi

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quite a bit as well and so and if you

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want to be on television or in film you

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need to speak the language that they

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presented so I had to get a diction

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coach and you know learn the language

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and that was very different and it’s

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just a different way that they operate

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over there there they it’s crazy but

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they understand they’re crazy right so

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we can’t from our world in here in

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Canada or first of all we can’t really

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necessarily project what our

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expectations on them and I think but

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that’s the biggest folly people make

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when they expect them to work quite like

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the way we work over here like on time

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with the schedule you know and good lead

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times and stuff over there it doesn’t

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work like that but you just have to

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learn to adjust to their craziness don’t

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expect schedules I would find out call

4:04

times would be like something that you’d

4:06

find out maybe like the day before

4:08

whatever but I think that’s sort of

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normal but even over here when I’ve been

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doing films call times come the night

4:14

before but I think what you really have

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to get used to is just there’s so many

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different people on set all the time and

4:22

what their functions are you also have

4:24

to get used to the way people operate

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like it’s just a different culture and

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for example over here everyone is on

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sort of the same level your hair and

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makeup your spot boys your everybody

4:38

right and we treat everyone the same and

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that’s how I went in and I I treated

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everybody and then I realized and I

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don’t know if I should say this but it

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is something that you you do realize I

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realized that I couldn’t treat they they

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respond over there to hierarchy and if I

4:57

was too nice to people they would never

5:00

come and do my touch-up and they just

5:01

like sit over there and be on their

5:04

phone or whatever and I’m like well it’s

5:05

my clothes like I need a touch-up right

5:07

but it wasn’t until like I had to sort

5:09

of exert authority on them and and you

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know get a little mad which was so not

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who I am

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that that’s when they actually were like

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okay cool we’ll be there for you and

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we’ll do yourself so that was like a

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crazy learning for me also you have to

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do the work yourself go out to a number

5:28

of auditions and eventually you’ll

5:31

figure out which of the auditions that

5:33

are legitimate and which aren’t but

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you’ll get in front of people and I

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think that’s the most that you can do

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just keep going to as many auditions and

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stuff as possible and eventually you

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should like find your way because

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there’s no one to show you the way over

5:47

there you just have to figure it out

5:48

yourself sometimes people get too

5:50

focused on the art and just creating and

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you have to balance creation with actual

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business and I’ve seen a lot of artists

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just fall down and just like you know

6:03

just rubbing their guitar all day long

6:05

and they’re just creating this amazing

6:06

music but they don’t know how to go out

6:08

and get out there and sell themselves

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because at the end of the day you have

6:12

to eat right so you have to figure out

6:14

what you need to do and if you don’t

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have another job then you have to focus

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on that business part of it and that’s

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why I think you know programs like these

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are also very helpful for artists to get

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into that and to get out there but you

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really have to attack your art like a

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job so whether it’s making lists of if

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you’re a singer and you need to you know

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get out and sing it

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for an events like make a list of event

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companies and just like tackle them one

6:38

by one by one by one and so have that

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balance between creation and then actual

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business one thing people don’t talk

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about is finance make sure you have some

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good savings that you can live off of

6:52

because when you go there you there’s so

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much competition there are so many

6:57

people everyone and their mother wants

6:59

to be in Bollywood in India so and you

7:02

have people from all over the world from

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Brazil from Russia from Canada UK

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everywhere come to India so you might

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not get work right away and you have to

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be prepared for that so I think

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financially make sure you’re sound next

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it is about the people that you interact

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with it really adds so there’s a lot of

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people that won’t lead you down the

7:26

right path so watch out for that but

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there are lots of people who are doing

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great work it’s a great time actually to

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be in India because a lot of new

7:34

interesting projects are coming out of

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there right now I have an agent so ok

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she takes care of my acting stuff right

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but as an artist when you’re doing

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things like spoken word and whatever I

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think marketing and getting yourself

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into the limelight is where a lot of

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artists I think need help perhaps and

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maybe it’s like Korea how do I create a

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YouTube channel and how do I you know

7:58

film my videos what do I need like these

8:00

sorts of things so to set your to set up

8:02

the business part of it I think that’s

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where artists would need help hey guys

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