and this is what I do in an entire day.

[upbeat music]

So a typical day when I'm filming The Sky is Pink,

say in Mumbai, because we shot all over,

we would have really early mornings

because we want the quiet.

It's basically this love story of this couple

that lose their child.

The grief of it, the joy of it,

celebrating the person who has lived

rather than mourning the person who has gone.

It's a very complex film

with many complex emotions,

and Aditi Chaudhary is a ferocious mom

who would do anything to make sure

that her daughter lives her biggest, best, longest life

and it was just a beautiful, beautiful thing

because I was raised by two ferociously protective

and possessive parents and I saw

how parents fight for their kids firsthand

and this was just very, very special to me on many levels.

So the movie travels a lot,

but we filmed all the set stuff and the set pieces in Mumbai

but we were on location in Delhi.

I would wake up around, say, quarter to six.

First thing in the morning I have to do

is check my phone [laughs].

I finish filming a big, big chunk of the movie

three days before I got married.

There was just so much going down

that I never was too far from my phone.

I would have my espresso, have my shower,

I'd get in my car.

We could take about 45 minutes to get to set, usually.

By the time I reached set,

I get into the zone of my character and I'm off hook.

I age from about 25 to 52.

In the movie, so we had different looks

for every decade or so that I played.

It was very subtle aging in the movie

because Shonali is a believer that, my director,

that women are never aged beautifully in movies somehow.

So at 50, why should a woman look dowdy?

I really agreed with that.

So it would take about two hours.

I would get into hair and makeup by about 7:00.

I would be ready to shoot by about nine o'clock,

but that process when I'm in my trailer,

it becomes like a cocoon.

It was a very intense movie with a lot of intense emotions

so the right music was important, like [laughs]

give me mood, give me angst, give me pain, sadness

and all of those things.

So that would happen.

I can't remember the specifics so I'm sorry.

It would be really funny if I did.

But I can't.

Walking from my trailer to set

is like a big, important zoning in sort of moment

because once I walk in the set, it's like all game.

Going to rehearsals, block the scene for us.

Shonali was very about what natural instinct

come to her actors

and she really depends on her actors and allows them to be.

I'm not method in a way where

I can't even have other thoughts.

I can't do that because then

you don't surprise yourself in a performance, I feel like.

Personally, as an an actor, I have to leave room for magic.

Then, while they set up the shot, I go sit on my chair,

have my coffee,

'cause coffee doesn't leave my sight

for at least four hours after I've woken up.

Terrible, I know, I know,

but my brain needs to wake up.

After maybe 20 minutes of shooting a scene,

I would have 60, 65 messages.

Images and images and a million images of a million things

and especially friends saying like,

we can only get this wine

or only these flowers are available

or what is the right color of ivory

because I'm very specific

but it's also kind of like my fault

because I wanted to see everything.

[laughing] I sort of talk to myself saying it's my fault.

And while I was working, Nick would handle it

because he was in the US at that time,

so we conquered really well

because while he was in the US, it would be night here

and it would be day here, so while I was sleeping,

he could get a lot of work done.

I guess that's how we,

I ended up shooting a movie

and planning a wedding in five weeks.

I don't know.

I do have a few favorite apps.

During The Sky is Pink, I mean, it was a wedding app

created for a wedding, but outside of that,

I feel like people will judge me for this.

I like doing math [laughs].

So there's this app called Math 42.

It's like, really cool and stuff.

Yeah, I do math for fun, okay?

I do like to stay hydrated.

I forget to eat and drink sometimes

when I'm on set for sure,

so I definitely have my system and we negotiate in the day,

like today, we're gonna get through six bottles of water,

more like five bottles of water.

We call it Hydration Harassment

and like, water has to come in front of me

whenever I'm doing touchups

and I have to, especially with the kind of,

like how much coffee I drink

and the fact that I hardly sleep

and I'm always in different timezones and planes

and I also hydrate with coconut water.

In Mumbai, from the coconut itself.

It's pretty cool.

In Mumbai, I have a home, so I live at home

and location could mean two hours away,

location could mean half an hour away.

First Nick and I would connect about

the progress he made during the day

and the progress I made during the day

and then we'd talk about the things that we have to do

and then we'd speak to our wedding planners

on a conference call.

All this would happen while I'm coming back home

and then there were so many friends and so much family

at my house, so when I go back home,

it was like dinner, and there's so many people

and I love that, but just,

while you're filming a movie, it was a lot.

I, it was a lot [laughs].

But my friends and family are kinda great.

They know me.

So they know if I'm getting quiet

in the middle of a lot of people, I need time.

So my mom would be like, why don't you just go upstairs

and grab me blah, blah, blah?

And I'm very happy to do it

and come back after 45 minutes [laughs]

which everyone knew what I was doing so it's okay.

I usually am a wine kind of girl,

but that was before the wedding.

I was trying to like, lose weight, get into shape,

so I was off wine at that point.

I wasn't really drinking too much 'cause I was on films,

but I would definitely.

I would sleep by about 2:00, 3:00 in the morning.

It always takes me a least a half an hour to sleep.

Even if my body is just giving up,

especially with the high stress and pace of my job,

I need at least like an hour, hour and a half

to just sit down, talk, maybe watch TV, dinner,

but just to come down from the energy and the adrenaline.

I didn't get much sleep, so right after I wrapped,

about three, four days before the wedding,

I had to take a day and a half of just,

sleeping, you know, facial massage,

nails, like just one day of decompressing

and then I got straight out of the way.

- [Producers] Thank you so much.

[people clapping]