Yami feels that this is not a new thing, because this kind of awareness was there even in the actresses of the past. She shares, “While today in our film industry things seem to be evolving. All this happened before. In fact in earlier eras where acting in films was not a popular choice for women, we still have examples like Durga Khote ji. We have a pool of actresses like Madhubala ji, Meena Kumari ji, Waheeda Rehman ji, Vyjayanthimala ji, Smita Patil ji, Nutan ji, Nargis ji.. Hema Malini ji, Sridevi ji.
She adds, “Today awareness is very high, and the amount of women centric films is very high, even in those days I think there was awareness. I remember watching an interview zeenat aman Yes. It was an old interview (in the 70’s) and he said that women know they don’t want to be just jewelery (in a movie). They want to do something else. So you see, this feeling has been happening for a long time, but it needs more time to channelize and implement it, which has happened now.”