Yami Gautam garnered positive response for her last release Kaabil (2016). “I have to live up to the love that people have showered me with. From here, things are going to be special. I am enjoying the space,” says Yami. Ask her if she still feels like an outsider and she says, “The word outsider is just in the head. It’s a mental block. Whatever you put your energies to, life gives you that. I am happy where I am, and slowly and steadily [I am] moving towards the goal I want to reach.”
However, she did go through a phase when her films didn’t do well. “My second film (Total Siyappa; 2014)) didn’t do well and I was very upset. Though you have your entourage and other people around you, who advise you on the kind of films to do, you need to understand and remember why you came here [Bollywood]. You should evolve, but the core [values] should never leave you.”
