Fatherhood changed Ali’s perspective

Ali Fazal on how fatherhood changed his perspective on life, emotions and cinema

Bollywood actor Ali Fazal recently spoke about the transformation in his life after embracing fatherhood. The actor appeared in a completely different light during the third episode of Shekhar Suman’s show, Shekhar Tonite.

During the conversation, when Shekhar Suman asked him, “How is life?”, Ali responded with a deeply emotional and poetic perspective.

Speaking about becoming a father, the actor shared how his understanding of life, cinema, and even human emotions has completely changed after the arrival of his daughter.

Talking about fatherhood, Ali Fazal said, “I think life has changed completely, 360 degrees. Fatherhood is definitely something that, no matter how much you talk about it or what you say, it sounds cliché, but it is as pure as it gets.”

The actor then beautifully connected children with cinema and storytelling, saying, “Every thought changes with just a blink. It’s like an edit. She would blink, and everything would change. It’s simple, and I thought, wow… this is total focus. It’s pure cinema because it’s unpredictable. And it’s cute, and it creates its own music, its own world around it… and sometimes very loud too.”

The basic difference is the way I perceive the world now, and even cinema. Whenever I look at my daughter… if there’s a child playing in the middle of a drawing room, everyone’s attention automatically goes there. And this has always been my observation. Why does that happen? Because their instinct is so pure, and it is so much in sync with the rhythm of nature” 

— Ali Fazal