Thank god there’s no censorship on the net, says Bhumi Pednekar

15/04/2018

Bhumi Pednekar, who is doing a Netflix show titled Lust Series which will have stories by directors like Zoya Akhtar, Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap and Dibaker Banerjee, is grateful there’s no censorship on the internet. She says it gives creative people the freedom to show what they believe in.
Bhumi finds it “phenomenal” that the digital medium is allowing a variety of subjects and genres in the entertainment industry. “Thank god for the internet, thank God for these amazing portals that are there. For instance, Netflix and Amazon. The kind of content the audience has got to see has gone up drastically and because of this, the quality of work will go up too. You can now not show audience any cheap Rs 2 thing that has no thought gone into it. They are not going to appreciate it,” said Bhumi.
“The fact that we don’t have censorship on the internet really gives you a lot of freedom as makers and creative people do what they believe in,” she added.
Bhumi is glad that Lust Series is releasing digitally instead of coming out on another medium. “I thank god for no censorship on such mediums. I am glad that Lust Stories is coming on Netflix as opposed to the kind of commercial release it was going to get. It has beautiful directors that have got together for this series. You have Karan, Zoya, Dibakar and Anurag... Such brilliant minds are coming together with brilliant talent being a part of it, so I feel it’s going to be fantastic,” Bhumi said.
Bhumi made her Bollywood debut with Ayushmann Khurrana-starrer Dum Laga Ke Haisha in which she played an overweight girl struggling to find her space in an arranged marriage. She then featured in powerful roles in films like Toilet: Ek Prem Katha on the need for toilets and sanitation facilities and Shubh Mangal Savdhan, which entertained with a less spoken about subject of erectile dysfunction.
She will be next seen as a dacoit in Abhishek Chaubey’s directorial Sonchiriya, co-starring Sushant Singh Rajput, Manoj Bajpayee and Ashutosh Rana. Bhumi says Sonchiriya is by far her most special film. “It is a film that has really changed me a lot personally,” said the actor, who had an enriching experience working with Sushant.
“He is a super-fine actor. We had such great fun working with each other. You know when you are working with somebody who is so good, you automatically want to up your game and obviously the daddy of it all was Abhishek, who is somebody I look up to, have faith in and believe in,” she added.
Most of her films have been shot in India’s hinterland. Asked about it, she said, “Rural India is 70 per cent of our country. We have started tapping into those stories because India has such amazing stories of spirit. I think I have just come at a time when these films are being made. I believe in that content.”

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