Pravina Deshpande, who has done films like Ready, Ek Villain, Monsoon Out, Khamosh Adalat Jari Hai, Jalebi, Bose: Dead/Alive, Avrodh, and Rocket Boys, to name a few, says though she is different with different sets of people, she doesn’t have a specific side that she keeps just to herself.
She said, “We are surely different with different sets of people depending on how much we know them or our comfort with them. You feel that people should not wrongly judge you. With your own set of people, family, and friends, there are no such thoughts.”
“I am quite a transparent person. There is no side of me that is only for myself,” she added. When asked to describe herself, she said she is a positive, empathetic, patient, resilient, and creative person. And she agrees that it surely takes time for her to analyze herself in words. She added, “I do not complicate things. For me, it’s one step at a time, and I take life as it comes.”
For Pravina, self-validation is important, and she added, “Only after that do I seek validation, which comes from a source of confidence that is my elder son or his wife, who is my daughter from another mother, not only makes things easier for me. It creates a strong bond while I discuss things, that’s so important.”
She also believes that staying in our comfort zones is going to take us nowhere. She said, “Ravindranath Tagore had said, ‘You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.’ That’s so true.”
How has moving out of your comfort zone helped you? “I am from Raipur in Chhattisgarh, from a very comfortable background where my father was a very reputed doctor. All my siblings are doctors, and my husband is a structural engineering consultant. My own education, being an MSc in life sciences with a diploma in pathology, made coming into the entertainment industry itself challenging. I am talking about 1997–1998. Meeting people, going for auditions at Mahalaxmi, shooting late nights for daily soaps over the years, and driving back from Madh Island sometimes alone as late as 2 am requires a lot of adjustments and strength both from within and from family, mainly my husband. This has helped me grow and be what I am today,” Pravina shared.
