“Just Don’t Think That I Am The Same Person” Alia Bhatt On How Motherhood Has Shaped Her Choices

Ever since she has become a mom to Raha, Alia Bhatt has been quite vocal about how motherhood has changed her life. In a recent interview with Brut at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, she was asked “How has becoming a mother influenced your choice of roles and your perspective on your career?” Her response offered a heartfelt glimpse into how her new role as a parent is shaping her decisions — both professionally and personally.

“I am not even sure how it influences it to be very honest. I think there is definitely way more empathy. I think your heart is just wide open. There is some sensitivity which you can’t put your finger on, but I think, I don’t know about how I have chosen my roles differently or how I am going to take a path differently.”

She further added, “I also just don’t think that I am the same person, so by the byproduct of me, not being the same person that I was I think, pre being a mum, I think naturally a lot will change. I don’t think I am the same person. I mean, that’s one of the first things that I noticed. It was just like there was a person that was just gone. I was like ‘Who? Who am I? Who’s this new person? Okay let’s get to know her a little bit.’”    

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When asked what exactly has changed for her since becoming a mother, Alia replied,       

“It is too difficult to put into words it is too difficult to put into words. I can have silent conversations with new moms and they’ll get exactly what I am saying. I know they say it’s like somebody takes your heart and just puts it outside your body and that’s what you feel for your child or this other being, but it just actually feels as though you’re never alone. In a lot of ways initially the experience is very isolating because you’re so sort of focused on nurturing and caring, but at the same time, because now I am here and like my heart is at home because my daughter is at home.”

Alia feels that ever since she has become a mom, she is never alone, “It feels just as though I am never alone like the thought, and the presence of her is always with me. So, by those means you’re not thinking about yourself as often. That’s the biggest thing that has changed. Your world, from being inward, becomes outward, and then you become so much more sensitive to everyone else’s journey, everyone else’s tears affect you as though it’s your child’s still. Everyone else’s pain affects you as though it’s your child's pain, because you look at the world from your child’s perspective. ‘Oh! One day, this could be her. Oh no! I hope this never happens to her.” she shares

“It’s like you are wide open. You are emotionally wide open, and I would see that in my mom. I would open the newspapers and suddenly start crying and see some distressing news and then see something happy and be so happy and proud and would never understand it. Now I do, and that’s why you have to really experience it to understand it but I hope I’ve done a good job explaining what it feels like.’” she added