Coming into show business was a weird thing: Nimrat

Actor talks about her journey and why she doesn’t have a take on feminism

MUMBAI: Nimrat Kaur, who came into limelight through her role in internationally acclaimed film The Lunchbox and played a pivotal character in US political thriller TV series Homeland, said coming into show business was a “weird thing” for her.

“There is no one day that you wake up and you are like ‘I want to be an actor’. I was academically quite inclined, so wanting to be an actor was a very weird thing to admit, even to myself,” Kaur said in an interview. “Because I don’t have anyone in my family who is an artist, just the vocabulary of being an actor didn’t exist.”

The actor said she doesn’t have a take on feminism because she doesn’t think she understand the term very well.



“I haven’t thought about it. What I do believe in is equality. There are issues that do disturb me when I read about things like domestic violence, what women have to go through... That is very disturbing. What I can do at my level, I try doing,” said Nimrat, who is also not concerned with Bollywood’s obsession with thin actresses.

She likes seeing herself in different hair and make-up looks.” It’s great to see yourself in different outfits. And what’s bad about staying healthy as long as I am not killing myself over it?”



In fact, she believes in being healthy and in being who she is. “I am not obsessive about my dress size. I know my body is a certain way and I am comfortable with it. I am happy to repeat shoes, I am happy repeating outfits. It doesn’t matter.”

Nimrat will be next seen onscreen in Airlift alongside actor Akshay Kumar. Directed by Raja Krishna Menon, Airlift is based on the biggest evacuation of hostages based in Kuwait during the Iraq-Kuwait war and will release on January 22 next year. 

Published in The Express Tribune, December 30^th, 2015.

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