draped in a creamcoloured silk sari hair done up she is a vision of grace deepti naval carried herself with a certain air pride and composure on the stage at the museum of goa mog where she spoke and read a few verses from her recently released memoir highlighting her formative years in amritsardeepti spoke about her decision to join the film industry and how when she did so she never looked back back in the day no one spoke about cinema or wanting to send their children to the industry though everyone loved watching it it was one of the few sources of entertainment when i joined the industry i came from america after my father migrated there once i finished my college there i could tell my parents that i wanted to join the films but at the beginning growing up in amritsar there were no way of bringing up the topic of wanting to join films we were never given such an environment wherein we could feel free to express this desirebut then fate had its way and deepti began her career featuring in films that spoke of the everyday happenings at a time when bollywood was beginning its fascination with the hero culture her films were very different they might have not pulled people to cinema halls but theyve surely gone down in the annals of bollywoods vibrant historybeing a part of such a rich bollywood culture deepti shared her views about the recently held national cinema day and the rs 75 tickets i think if you can slash down prices ill definitely grab a show myself but ive also learnt about youtube and i love that app in fact when i want to find something on the internet i go on my phone and check youtube for help however if i was given an option to choose the childhood of this time or the one i lived i would choose the innocence of what i lived as a child and i wouldnt change it we would play and were close to nature i would like to be a youngster today not a child as a youngster i would avail a lot of opportunities learn technology and moredeepti has worked in several films like chasme buddoor and katha and more recently in ott shows like made in heaven pawan and pooja and criminal justice behind closed doors she is excited that ott has given the filmmakers a lot of scope to explore different topics there is a lot of experimentation with the content that is being created for ott platforms pehle theatre mein itne subject matters experiment nahi kar sakte te but now they can with ott now a vast range of topics can be explored and dealt with in terms of making the content in films filmmakers felt that there were certain types of topics that wouldnt work on the big screens whether there will be an audience or not but now there