Yes. Just a couple of days back, I was telling my friends about Kuljeet. I said that if we were to play the game of 'Word Association' with Kuljeet Kaur along with Riya (Sen) and Amrita (Arora), if the word is 'rain', then, Riya and Amrita would say, "Ooohh...rains …its very utterance sounds so romantic", whereas Kuljeet will say 'Rains are my livelihood as it is a source of water to my fields".

If the word is 'Fashion', then, Riya and Amrita would associate it to Louis Vuitton dresses, jeans, trendy tees etc…, whereas Kuljeet will say 'Fashion to me only means covering my head and salwar kameezs' . What is so amazing is the fact that all of them (Kuljeet, Riya and Amrita) are the same women from the same country but the gap between them is immensely big. In that way, one can easily say that Heroes is an attempt to bridge this gap in its own way. The only time that we associate ourselves with people like Kuljeet is when we see a documentary or when we read something that's written about them. Heroes is also about a sneak peak into the lives of various people. It really makes me feel very happy to be a part of today's Bollywood, which is offering space for the films that are highly commercial but yet, deal with the slice of life.

Look at Taare Zameen Par, which was indeed a commercial movie. Bit the slice of life factor in it was the way the parents and teacher dealt with a dyslexic son and student. The same goes for films like Chak De India, Munnabhai MBBS to name a few. And Heroes is another film which falls in the same category.

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