“It’s my choice how I want to appear.” Hina Khan opened up about posing on her own terms while dealing with paparazzi.
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00:00I don't show skin to grab the eyeballs.
00:02I show skin because I want to look good.
00:04It's my choice what I want to wear.
00:06It's my choice how I want to pose.
00:07You cannot dictate me how I should pose.
00:10I have pigmentation, I have dark circles,
00:12I have freckles and that's okay.
00:20Wherever Hina Khan goes, so do the paps.
00:23And they often say,
00:24ma'am turn around, show us your back
00:27when you're wearing a backless dress.
00:28Oh ma'am, pose like this, pose like that.
00:32Do you fall for it?
00:34No, I don't, Shelley.
00:36In fact, my last few appearances,
00:40I made sure that I convey to them
00:44that I am not comfortable with what you're asking me.
00:47I believe, I think as a woman,
00:51I should not oblige this.
00:54And I also feel we do a lot of public appearances
00:59as actors where we walk a lot of red carpets and all.
01:04But you know, a question answer is okay.
01:07And communicating with the paparazzis
01:10and with media people is absolutely fine.
01:12But I just don't like the fact
01:14when I am asked to pose in a certain way.
01:17Like what?
01:18Or for that matter, ma'am turn around,
01:21show us your back,
01:22just because I'm wearing a backless dress.
01:25Or they'll say, or for that matter, just simply to pout.
01:29They'll tell you to pout.
01:30I said, as a woman, I am not obliged to do this for them.
01:35Right?
01:36Yeah.
01:37I'm an artist, I'm an actor, and I know my job.
01:41I know sometimes, most of the times,
01:44I will be dancing to the tunes of my director,
01:46which is absolutely fine.
01:47It's part of my profession.
01:48So they could argue that pouting is your job?
01:51Why pouting is my job?
01:52I mean, really, I mean, it's my choice.
01:56It's not that, it's not a fair ask, I feel,
02:01that you ask me that how, please pout, please turn around,
02:04just because you're wearing a backless dress.
02:06With all due respect, I love them personally.
02:08I know all of them.
02:09I know they don't think ill of me
02:11or anyone else for that matter.
02:13But I think as women, we should draw,
02:16and men are not asked such questions.
02:17And as women, we should draw this line
02:20and we should not give anyone this right
02:24to ask us such questions on a red carpet.
02:27And also, I don't want to be part of this practice.
02:30You know, it's my choice what I want to wear.
02:32It's my choice how I want to pose.
02:34It's my choice how I want to appear in the public domain.
02:38That agency remains mine.
02:40That's it.
02:41So I don't give, I really don't want to give this right
02:44to anyone to tell me how to pose and give a back pose.
02:48I want to give a back pose when I want to give a back pose.
02:51I don't show skin to grab the eyeballs.
02:54I show skin because I want to look good.
02:56I want to look sexy.
02:58So it's not that I show skin
03:00because I want to grab eyeballs.
03:01I want people, people want to capture me
03:03in a certain way, in a certain position.
03:05That's, I am in a public domain.
03:06You can click me the way you want,
03:09but you cannot dictate me how I should pose.
03:12So that's something which I don't give them right to do.
03:17So that's something I want to do
03:20when I am comfortable doing that.
03:22So I know, I know what you're trying to say.
03:25People will put it this way,
03:26that these are double standards.
03:27What is she doing?
03:29She has a problem with posing in a certain way.
03:35It's not that.
03:36I'm not saying that I don't want to give a back pose.
03:39I'm not saying that.
03:40But you'll do it on your own terms.
03:41I will do it when I want it.
03:43What disrupts Heena Khan's peace of mind?
03:47I think this, in today's world,
03:49what bothers me the most on social media,
03:51I'm saying, let me talk about social media.
03:53A lot bothers me, by the way.
03:54But let me just talk about social media right now.
03:59I think we all are just running
04:02after this picture perfect social media appearance,
04:06especially women.
04:08We've just gone crazy.
04:10We are mindlessly following it,
04:11following this notion of fake reality.
04:13Yeah.
04:15Everyone wants to look beautiful.
04:17They want to look good.
04:18And you are beautiful.
04:21But I don't know what is wrong with today's generation,
04:24or for that matter, all the people,
04:26that why are they so focused on editing their picture?
04:30Either editing their picture to look perfect,
04:33without freckles, without pigmentation,
04:36or to use a filter.
04:38Yeah.
04:38They just don't want to do anything without filter.
04:40Have you done ever a filter?
04:42Of course, I use filters.
04:44I'm not saying I don't use filters.
04:45I'm not saying, I'm an artist.
04:47I do use makeup.
04:48I use filters.
04:49I love using filters.
04:51But then I am okay to put out my real self,
04:54my natural self out there when I wish to.
04:57And I do it.
04:58People who know me, they know that I do it.
05:00I do put my real self out.
05:02I'm not saying don't use filters.
05:04My point is that,
05:06don't do it to a level where you go,
05:08where you become depressed
05:09when you look at yourself in the mirror.
05:11And I see people around who get depressed
05:14when they look at themselves in the mirror.
05:16They really get depressed
05:17and they don't want to show their real self,
05:19their natural self to the world.
05:22For me, I believe,
05:24see, I'm not in my twenties, okay?
05:27I have pigmentation.
05:28I have dark circles.
05:29I have freckles and that's okay.
05:32I think I have fine lines
05:35and that's my experience sitting on my face
05:37and that's okay.