Updated On: 09 November, 2025 03:44 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS
Yami Gautam, currently earning praise for her film Haq, recalled seeking help from a Gen Z person while preparing for her TikToker role in Bala, since she had no familiarity with the platform

Yami Gautam
Actress Yami Gautam, who is receiving a lot of positive response to her work in the recently released film ‘Haq’, once asked help from a Gen Z during the filming of ‘Bala’. The actress spoke with IANS at a 5-star property in the Juhu area of Mumbai during the promotional campaign of the film. During the conversation an old remark of Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan was brought up. The actor had said that to get it right is the most boring thing that an actor can do, he was talking about the method actors. What he meant was an actor should allow themselves to go wrong because that is where the fun lies.
When the actress was asked if she identifies with that school of thought, she told IANS, “It is very subjective to each film, what is the character and how is your director looking at it. There are films where you are portraying someone, who probably is just walking around the corridor as natural as that. Sometimes you get characters which are far off from your reality like ‘Bala’, I played a TikToker, no chance I had and forget an account on TikTok, but I had no idea what TikTok was. Luckily, one day beforehand, I actually asked for help from a Gen Z, and told them, ‘Please help me’. Now that is a very different world, I will need to adapt myself to that world”.