Exclusive: Actress Tillotama Shome sums up her 20 Years in the Industry

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In an exclusive conversation with IANS, Actress Tillotama Shome talked about completing two decades in the industry. She opened up on her experiences, learnings and regrets working in the film industry. She said, “After working tirelessly I have started seeing myself for who I truly am. I didn’t thik I was capable of falling that low in my own eyes, the kind of insecurities that came up in times of not having any work. Then I did a project that was transformative, with a director that changed my life. Then I regret wasting time, feeling sorry for myself and comparing myself to others. Now I understand the importance of honing skills other than acting. Acting is one part of my life and I have many more talents. Her latest release, ‘Kota Factory Season 3’, includes Jitendra Kumar, Mayur More, Ranjan Raj, Alam Khan, Ahsaas Channa, Revathi Pillai, and Urvi Singh, with Tillotama Shome joining the new season. ‘Kota Factory Season 3’ is now streaming on Netflix.  #KotaFactory #jeetuBhaiya #JitendraKumar #JitendraKumarexclusive #interview #kota #kotafactoryseason3 #jeetubhaiyaviralvideo #jeetubhaiya #jeetubhaiyalessons #kotaiit #iitpreperation #Trending #2024 #BollywoodNews #BollywoodGossips #BollywoodUpdates #BollywoodNews #Bollywood #Bollywoodcelebrity #BollywoodHindiNews #ians

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00:00It's been a fun ride. It's been a cake walk. No, man. No. Most of the walk didn't have

00:14any cake and you were just walking, you know. And shoes got wet while walking. But cake

00:24and all is available now. And it's a lot of fun to eat cake. But after the walk, that

00:32strength has also come. Patience has also come. But, and also you see yourself. You

00:38see all the ugliness in you when you are down and out, when you are not happy at somebody

00:44else's success. You see that, you see that, you know, darkness in you. And you get to

00:51know yourself very well in ways that, you know, I didn't think I was capable of falling

00:59that low in my own eyes. The kind of, you know, insecurities that came up in that time

01:07of not having work. But then you do a project which is so transformative. You work with

01:14a director who changes your life. Like Anoop Singh did for Meen Kissa. And then everything

01:21becomes worth it. And then you understand that, oh, there was a reason why it took so

01:26long for me to even appreciate this film and what Anoop has given me. And after that, there's

01:36been no looking back. Even though I had to wait even after that film for work. But inside,

01:41I just knew what I have learned. It's like he's given me a box of tools. Now I can open

01:47that box and take it to work every day. It doesn't matter what project, what film, what

01:53part. So, yeah. Regrets? Yeah, I do regret wasting time feeling sorry for myself, comparing

02:05myself to others. And I regret not using that time to just have many, many, many other

02:16interests, you know, which I learned it the hard way. And now, like I know that acting

02:22is one part of my life. But I have many, many other interests and I spend a lot of time

02:27in that. So that when I'm out of work, which will happen because this is our career, it's

02:33up and down. And when that happens, I'm not at sea. I'm not lost. There are many other

02:39things that anchor me besides acting. But when I was younger and I was hell-bent on

02:44being an actor, that single-minded focus was actually very painful in retrospect. At that

02:51time, you felt that that's the right thing to do. You know, that so obsessed with it

02:55that you don't develop any other faculties and any other interests. It's like, you know.

03:02So yeah, those regrets are there. But I guess you live and learn and I'm trying to undo those things.

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