There are days when I feel anxious due to the pandemic: Aditi

AAditi Rao Hydari

diti Rao Hydari is grateful to be busy during the lockdown. She says, things are so crazy that it is good to have something to focus on. “There are days when I feel anxious due to what is happening in the world. But I remind myself that I am lucky and have a lot to look forward to and nothing to complain about. There is uncertainty but it has also been nice to spend time at home, get back to dancing, singing and yoga,” adds the actor, who is in Hyderabad with her family.

Hydari says that the ‘new normal’ for her is a society with more “kindness and sensitivity”. She says, “As humans, we have become very mean, living in a chaotic world, and people need to be kinder and empathetic. I hope we can go back to the freedom we had before Covid-19. In these times, I have realised how important it is to be free and to make your choices.”

The actor, whose latest Malayalam film released on an OTT platform, states that the web has enabled content makers and audiences. Weighing in on the theatre vs OTT debate, she shares, “Theatres will always remain magical and the experience of a first-day-first-show is unmatched. What these platforms have done in this lockdown is incredible as we are lucky to be able to release our films on the web.”

Hydari rose to fame with director Sudhir Mishra’s Yeh Saali Zindagi (2011) and since then, she has been part of many films. But of late, she has been more active in South Indian cinema. She says, “Working in the south has been hugely rewarding. One has to earn respect and credibility and I am trying to do that with my choices. With Hindi films, sometimes, I did roles which I thought were the correct ones to do but not because I was dying to do them. And that’s why it is important for me to be fearless in my choices and the intention to be right.”