Ira Khan Interview: I spent 20 years considering you need to be unhappy for individuals to like you | Hindi Film Information

We’ve been taught that in the event you brush your enamel, you gained’t get cavities, however no one taught us what we must always do to maintain our minds wholesome,” factors out Ira Khan, as she offers us a tour of her group centre positioned at a quaint bungalow in Bandra. The 25-year-old, who’s Aamir Khan and Reena Dutta’s daughter, talks to us about her private battle with psychological well being and the way she desires to champion this trigger for the remainder of her life.

‘I turned out to be a depressed person’
Sharing the way it all started she says, “While growing up, my mind decided that to be loved, I need to be a slightly broken person. I made this perception by watching a lot of movies. I remember being as young as 8 or 10 years old and telling myself to fake a smile to repress my feelings, so that I grew up being slightly broken, because I believed that only then people will love me. So, I systematically made sure that I turned out to be a depressed person.”

‘Depression is partly genetic in my case’
Ira has a historical past of battling psychological well being points and has been vocal about it. She has been present process remedy for cyclic melancholy, “Depression is a little complicated. It is partly genetic, partly psychological, and social. In my case, it is partly genetic. There is a history of mental health issues in my family on my mom and dad’s side,” says Ira.
‘I blame myself for my depression’
“My therapist said that one of the trigger points was my parents, who handled their divorce as well as they could at that point. It was amicable. I am not blaming them, but what they didn’t realise is that because they made it seem like divorce was not a big deal, there was a perception my mind created of the situation. We create perceptions and we don’t necessarily communicate to people about those. So, I blame myself for my depression. I spent 20 years thinking that you have to be sad for people to love you. But now how do I go back? I want to be happy! So now, I have to systematically undo everything that I have done,” says Ira.

Aamir Khan and daughter Ira Khan

‘I’ve made a chat group with my mother and father and Kiran aunty; I attain out to them for assist’
Speaking about her assist system, Ira says, “I reach out to both my parents for help. I also turn to Kiran (Rao) aunty. In fact, I have made a phone chat group with all three of them. And when it comes to Popeye (fiancé Nupur Shikhare), he has the emotional bandwidth to spend time with me. Being there for someone takes time and energy. It takes a certain level of commitment. So, I feel very lucky to have someone like him in my life, who wanted to invest in trying to understand what I was going through.”
‘I want to focus on my foundation for the rest of my life’
Earlier than she turned her focus to her basis Agatsu that helps individuals battling psychological well being points, Ira had a tryst with showbiz. She was an AD on Sonakshi Sinha-starrer net present Dahaad. However she’s not taken with pursuing a profession within the films. “Agatsu (which means self-victory) is my full-time job. At the centre, we have a neuroscience workshop, mental health hour, youth peer meet, dance classes, games evening & other activities spread across the week for people to de-stress and engage in. I am not doing anything else, but this for the rest of my life. I truly appreciate storytelling through films, but there are a lot of other people who can do that, I don’t have to do it!”
She provides, “Why should one wait till he/she absolutely cannot bear it (mental stress) any more and then ask for help? Why can’t one just fix it when it is even a little bit problematic? Self-awareness, communication, resilience is important, and if everything else fails where you can’t take therapy, or you can’t take medication, then human connections work.”
‘We know that we want to get married on January 3’
Ira bought engaged to her coach of a few years, Nupur Shikhare (who she lovingly calls Popeye) final November. Speaking about their marriage plans, she says, “We know that we want to get married on January 3, but which year… we haven’t decided on that (laughs!). January 3 is very special for us as that’s the date when we
first kissed.”