Aaditi Pohankar Discusses Managing Mental Well-being in Intense Roles

Imagine an actor playing a character who is very, very sad or angry.

It can be hard to stop feeling those big emotions after the cameras stop rolling.

Aaditi Pohankar, an actress, has a special way of dealing with this.

She pretends the character is like a story she's watching, not really her.

She tells herself, 'This is not me, it's another person's life.'

It's like being friends with someone but knowing you'll say goodbye later.

This helps her not get too sad herself when she has to let the character go.

She also finds that going back home after filming, like returning to Mumbai from Kolkata, helps her feel like herself again.

This way, she can play the sad and angry parts without getting too hurt by them.