Juhi Chakraborty (HINDUSTAN TIMES; August 31, 2020)

In the past few months, Bollywood has been called a dark place, a big bad world where people from outside the film industry are sidelined. But Amyra Dastur feels the negative publicity around the film industry is indeed sad.

“At the end of the day Bollywood is everyone’s favourite punching bag. So even when item songs were a big thing people were like, ‘You know, it is objectifying women’. It is no surprise the film industry has been blamed for everything. I don’t see it that way,” shares Dastur. The actor admits she had a “couple of odd experiences”, but adds it has mostly been a happy journey.

Dastur says after all that has been happening, her parents have become very sceptical.

“I’ve to explain to my parents that ‘no it is not like this’,” she says, adding she is trying to remain unaffected by all that is happening. “I feel like right now people have the time to come up with some odd things,” she concludes.