I think my 21 years of staying away from being an actor and someone who was grappling with holding and losing stardom and being behind the camera has made me think that it’s time to get back to acting again. Somewhere when you lead a life that is true, somebody notices that picks that up. And I am glad that Alankrita Shrivastava, the director of ‘Bombay Begum’ liked my past work and came to me with the role. She wanted me to play the part that she had lived for so long. She wanted the character to have a combination of strength and vulnerability. I think the lives that you lead get communicated. Being true to myself has always been important to me because success is always interpreted by other people. While ‘Rani’, the character that I play in ‘Bombay Begums’ is not very like me in terms of responses to things, like if I compare what she is going through with menopause, she is in complete denial about that to anybody else who wants to give her a helping hand. Fatima’s character tried to help, but she slapped that hand away.