Kiara Advani Is Coming Into Her Own

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There are certain things Kiara Advani remembers: How she felt dancing to the hits of Madhuri Dixit, running around in the house with her mother’s dupatta and being the heroine that she wanted, the endless learnings that came after Kabir Singh was received with polarised reactions, understanding the nuanced shades of love over the years, and knowing that she cannot possibly be a people-pleaser. A Kiara Advani film has certain distinct markers, regardless of who makes or stars in them. For starters, they are unabashedly Bollywood. Beyond the song and dance routine, her films make the cash registers ring. But what happens after the lights have gone down and the dreamy streets of Mumbai seem less than welcome?

“There are times when certain lows can get to you,” she says. “We’re all human, after all. But the only way I know how to deal with these episodes is not to indulge them. When you’re in the public eye, you have to not focus on the noise at all.” Indeed, much can go wrong when an actor focuses on the noise, often without meaning. Since her debut in the 2014 film Fugly, Advani’s fan clubs from Turkey to France are as mesmerised by her as she was by Madhuri Dixit’s dance moves.

And then came Kabir Singh in 2019. Things would never be the same, for better or worse.


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