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Aarya actor Priyasha Bhardwaj: I have grown up feeling alienated

Updated On: 25 July, 2020 07:23 AM IST | Mohar Basu

Aarya actor Priyasha Bhardwaj on the apathy of the mainstream audience towards people from Assam.

Priyasha Bhardwaj

A day before India announced a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Aarya actor Priyasha Bhardwaj flew back to hometown Guwahati. The actor, who was lauded for her act in the Disney + Hotstar series, has previously appeared in Amazon Prime Video's Made in Heaven, Zee5's Kaafir and is awaiting the release of Mirzapur 2.

As Assam reels under the debilitating floods, the actor rues that the mainstream media has not highlighted the worsening situation in her home state. Calling out the apathy, Bhardwaj says, "We have grown up feeling that we don't belong to mainland India. There's a step-motherly treatment meted out to this part of the country. Even when I moved to Delhi, people would often ask, 'Why do you have an accent?' I have grown up feeling alienated. Now, [the alienation] has been normalised. Every year we suffer these floods."

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