Fatima Sana Shaikh says she was molested at the age of 3: ‘It’s a battle we fight on everyday basis’

Fatima Sana Shaikh says she has confronted rejection a number of occasions in her profession. In a current interview, she spoke about how she was not thought-about worthy of changing into a movie heroine as a result of she didn’t seem like Deepika Padukone or Aishwarya Rai.

Fatima, who made her movie debut with Aamir Khan’s Dangal, earned vital approval for her function within the movie. It additionally went on the turn into essentially the most profitable Hindi movie ever made.

However, she needed to face numerous rejection earlier than she landed on the function. Speaking to Pinkvilla, she mentioned, “I was told many times that ‘you would never be a heroine’. You don’t look like Deepika, you don’t look like Aishwarya. How will you be a heroine?’ So there are people like them who will demotivate you. But now when I look back, I think, ‘fair enough’. That’s the standard of beauty they subscribe to. That one should look exactly like this or that to become a heroine. And I clearly don’t fall in that bracket, I fall into a different bracket. But there are opportunities now, there are films being made for people like me, who don’t look like supermodels, who look normal, average.”

Fatima additionally opened up concerning the sexism she needed to face within the early days of her profession. She even revealed that sexism runs so deep in society that she was molested when she was simply three years outdated. “I have faced people telling me that the only way to get a job is through sex. So that has also happened to me. I have lost jobs to someone else for whatever reason. But I feel that there are a lot of struggles that a lot of people are facing apart from this industry and sexism is very much relevant and it exists in every industry. I was molested when I was five years old. No! I was three years old. So you understand how deep sexism goes. It’s a battle we fight on everyday basis. Every woman, every minority fights every day. And I hope our future is better,” she mentioned.

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Fatima will quickly be seen in two back-to-back releases: Ludo and Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari. In a current chat with Hindustan Times, Fatima revealed the true causes she took up the movies. “I never think of it as me wanting to try a different genre. Of course, I do want to experiment with different roles so it’s more about how interesting the project is to me. Like with Ludo, I wanted to do the film because of Dada (Basu) and with Suraj Pe Mangal, because of the amazing star cast. There are so many actors and all of them are so good. From Manoj sir to Seema Pahwa, Manoj Pahwa, Annu Kapoor, Diljit, Supriya Pilgaonkar…I mean it’s a heavy duty cast. And then Abhishek, who has made Tere Bin Laden, so comedy is his thing. So I felt like I want to be a part of it because it is going to be a learning experience. I don’t know when I will get to work with Manoj sir again so I had to jump into it,” she mentioned.

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