Anushka Sharma on resorting to violence to fight OFF a molester
Srishti Dixit (DNA; February 21, 2015)

Anushka Sharma is a gutsy girl. Be it her professional life — she has taken the plunge as a producer — or when it comes to her personal life — globetrotting with cricketer beau Virat Kohli. She shared an anecdote about an act of violence she experienced in her life and how she fought back! Read on to know more...

You have several action scenes in NH10. Comment.
The action is very raw, but it’s designed to look believable. I trained for three months before the film to build up my stamina because I knew what lay ahead of me. We were shooting in jungles, with thorns and dust storms, harsh weather and other hindrances... I had to prepare myself for that. The action doesn’t look choreographed. It looks like a scuffle between two people. It’s not easy to create that and its hard to perform. We’re used to seeing a certain kind of action and I’d get into that space and my director Navdeep (Singh) would say, “Let’s not do that. Let’s keep it real.”

Have you experienced violence?
I’ve not picked up a rod and hit anybody, but when I was younger and I would be coming back from school, and you know one gets eve-teased and stuff like that. Guys would act cheap, flash, cat-call, grope, etc... One of my friends was groped and I remember hitting the guy with a Milton bottle. Then we stopped traffic and other people came to hit him. I have been brought up to voice my opinion and fight back.

Has your mentor Aditya Chopra seen the film yet?
No, I want to show him the film once it’s complete. I don’t want to show him kachha-pucca stuff!

Worried about the Censor Board’s new list of banned cuss words affecting NH10?
If you see things out of context, you can bleep out everything! But when they see it in context, it would make sense. There are no gimmicks in this film. There is a real story, there are real people. We have made the film the way we understand it. If I start abusing you for no rhyme or reason, it’ll be odd. But in the film, if someone is abusing or if there are cusswords, there is a reason for it. I’ve never attached myself to gimmicks. So, obviously it’s not going to happen the first time I’m going to produce a film.