Exclusive: “Because of Anandi…” Avika Gor Reveals She Learnt About Periods On The Sets Of Balika Vadhu!
A period lesson to remember!
While growing up can be hard, dealing with changing emotions, child actors experience this with much more intensity than normal people. The Balika Vadhu fame Avika Gor was very young when she joined acting which required her to portray emotions much complex than her age. In a recent interview with The Male Feminist, Avika Gor shared an interesting incident, speaking about period education before she even got them.
How Avika Learnt About Periods
When host Sidhaarth asked the actress about how she learnt about periods, Avika had an interesting reply. “I got to know about it through Balika Vadhu,” mentioned Gor. Elaborating on this statement, Avika says, “Surprisingly, I hadn’t gotten my periods when I was supposed to shoot a scene where my character Anandi gets her periods while she is at her in-laws’ house and not with her mother.”
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Avika reveals that this storyline went on till 2 whole episodes where Anandi is stressed and crying and seeing blood everywhere. While she is not with her mother, her mother-in-law comes in, to comfort her and tell her that this is a natural phenomenon that girls go through and there is no need to be scared thinking something is wrong with you. But her mother-in-law also felt bad because the child was not with her mother through such an important phase of her life.
Avika also reveals that while this was going on, her director came up to her and asked if she knew what was going on, to which she replied, “Yes, I know everything. My mother taught it to me before this. She told me about this scene and how it is going to happen to me in real life as well.” So, because of this scene, Avika got to learn about periods even before she got them. Host Siddhaarth also showed a surprising reaction saying that this was a unique story.
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Avika Gor On Learning About Different Things During Shoot
Avika reveals that periods were not the only thing she learned about very early in life. She says, “While being on shoots, we used to discuss a lot about child marriage and dowry. It was so surprising to me to hear that all these things still happen. I thought it was just history.” She also said that she was highly inspired when her character was fighting for her education while in this generation we take such things for granted.
Avika is very grateful for the show because she got to learn a lot of new things and she gets happy when people recognise her as Anandi. “I am so happy that people got to learn about so many things that they learned from the show and that they still talk about it.” The actress stated. Watch the full episode to know more.
First Published: June 14, 2024 4:02 PM
