Yami Gautam Takes A Stand For Bala Co-Star Bhumi Pednekar

We live in a time when people hardly take a stand for anyone else, especially in the entertainment industry. In movies starring two leading ladies, it is very common to compare the two. Take for example Bala which stars two leading ladies Bhumi Pednekar and Yami Gautam

Being a two heroine project, the audience is constantly in the expectation of fireworks. But instead, Yami is the one to set an example and stand up for her colleagues. Yami believes in standing up for her peers.

Bhumi’s make up for Bala revived a great deal of flak online and when the question of it was brought up to Yami, she stuck by the fact that the brown facing was a part of the story and Bhumi has done a wonderful job in the film. After the poster of the film received a few negative comments, Yami decided to clear the air and stand up for Bhumi. She put an end to the idle talk by saying that it’s a tendency that women, especially actresses, are constantly judged for their parts.

Yami Gautam said,

“Bhumi, Ayushmann and I are independent artistes who have come together to give life to a wonderful project that we totally have full faith in. We are invested in doing a great job and will go to any lengths to make the character believable and authentic in context of the script. We have a common goal here – of making a good film. I feel actresses are judged harshly vis a vis actors for their film choices. Also, people judging on the basis of just the poster and trailer is unfair. They aren’t seeing the narrative but isolating one look from the milieu it’s attached to.

It is disappointing that people can’t get past themselves and their prejudices, trying to transfer all of that negativity on to us. Bala is a film about loving oneself and there’s solid reason in the film for a certain look. We were all sold at Amar Kaushik’s vision and it’s necessary that people watch the film people first.”