Lara Dutta who is all set for her film ‘Hiccups & Hookups’ has recently opened up on her life and the character she is playing in the film. The former Miss Universe earlier has shown off stunning work in Bell Bottom.
She’s been quoted saying, over the phone, “I genuinely feel age has just liberated me.” She added, “I feel fortunate in a way my predecessors even a decade ago were not. There’s been such a wind of change with OTT (over the top) platforms giving female actors an opportunity to not just have a career but to really thrive and do incredible roles. The writing is better, the characters are more layered, you’re not playing the stereotypical, long-suffering wife or somebody’s girlfriend or the perfect mother. You have the opportunity to play women who are faulty, diabolical, and ambitious. So, I am having the time of my life,”
Kunal Kohli who directed her upcoming, ‘Hiccups & Hookups’, agrees to say, “There are very few shows talking about women in a realistic perspective. What’s really nice is her involvement in the entire show,” He added, “Over the years one develops a sense of confidence with one’s craft. Lara understood every nuance and every layer completely and batted on the front foot. There were no inhibitions about anything, how to play intimate scenes, comedy scenes or serious scenes,”
Lara adds on, ”And I was never somebody who lobbied for a role,”, She says, “In Vasudha, I saw a lot of women in their forties I know who have chosen not to settle because they haven’t found the perfect partner or who’ve come out of marriages and are single parenting their children in their forties. Gone is the time when we’ve been conditioned to believe it’s all about your family, children and in-laws. and if you’re divorced it has to be your children, you’ve always got to come second, you’re always your own last priority.”
She added, “I’m not ready to sit down yet. I’ve always been a woman’s woman,”, she says, “When we won Miss India, I was the only girl who was based in Mumbai. I had a matchbox apartment but I always had Dia or Priyanka living with me. It’s such a bond, such a sisterhood across husbands and children and movies. We just pick up from where we left off.” She continued, “I honestly believe if you rise you should lift others with you. There’s enough for everyone now unlike in the past when no one took you under your wing or told you who were the right people to know or the places to be seen at. I feel the older lot had it so hard maybe there was a bit of ‘let these young ones learn the hard way, ”
