Nimrat Kaur says people are ‘unsettled’ in marriages that are a front; recalls family pressure to ‘settle down’ during her struggling days

Nimrat recalled that during her struggling phase, when she was living “paycheck-to-paycheck,” no one in her family viewed her profession as a serious career. She said, “When I was six-seven years into the business, I was doing ad films. It was a paycheck-to-paycheck life. I didn’t know where my next paycheck was going to come from. In that scenario, I was often asked when I was going to continue with my profession, as if I were pursuing a hobby! My being in Mumbai was looked at like ‘oh, let her have some fun and then she’s going to come back and live her life as she should.'”

Nimrat admitted that she wants to take her time when it comes to marriage and instead focus on herself and her career. She also spoke about how marriage isn’t necessarily the route to feeling “settled,” as she sees many unions around her that seem disingenuous. She said, “I, in fact, feel like people are most unsettled and unhinged in marriages that are a front. That to me is more worrisome than a woman, who by virtue of her life, isn’t married at this point in time. Just leave her be! It’s mostly people who haven’t been able to take their own decisions and make brave choices in their lives that impose their own conditioning on others whenever they see them breaking the mould a little bit.”