Yami Gautam remembers when she felt left out of roundtable interviews: ‘I should have been there, but wasn’t invited’

She continued, “It’s just like award functions. There are so many. And while I understand that for everybody, you have to create segments, you have to create stories. But for me as an actor, there was a time when I felt that I, too, should have been on the panel, but you’re not invited. Now I’m being invited, but why do I want to contribute to a system where these sort of things, when I’m in a position to voice my choice? That is not a validation for me, that I have arrived. If I’m good at my work, and if the audience likes my work, I will know it.”

Earlier this year, Yami had singled out a negative review of her performance in Dasvi, and called it ‘extremely disrespectful’. She’d written in a Twitter thread, “Before I say anything else, I’d like to say that I usually take constructive criticism in my stride. But when a certain platform keeps trying to pull you down consistently, I felt it necessary to speak up about it. My recent films & performances include A Thursday, Bala, Uri etc. & yet this is qualified as a ‘review’ of my work! It’s extremely disrespectful!”

The actor made her debut opposite Ayushmann Khurrana in 2012, with the hit film Vicky Donor. She has appeared in hits such as Uri: The Surgical Strike and Bala. This year, she starred in Dasvi and A Thursday.