The Fall and Rise of Swara Bhaskar

"One of those rare voices in Bollywood who brings courage, conscience and authenticity - not just to her roles, but to everything she does."

That's how Yasmin Kidwai opens this episode of A Delhi Love. Swara Bhaskar has played fierce women on film, taken on trolls online, and marched shoulder to shoulder with those she believes in. In this conversation, she talks about what it's cost her to be an outspoken woman in today's India her feminism, her faith, and the mixed-up, syncretic culture she refuses to give up on.

They get into the films that stopped coming once she spoke her mind, the Padmaavat open letter and the storm it reignited at the India International Centre, the trolling, her marriage to Fahad, motherhood, and the India she hopes to leave her daughter.

In this episode:

– Delhi, JNU, and where her voice came from

– Losing Bollywood — the real cost of speaking up

– Padmaavat, Jauhar and the IIC controversy, in her own words

– Trolls, "love jihad", and protecting her daughter

– Feminism in the Indian context, faith, and reinvention

Watch the full conversation, and tell us what you think in the comments.

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