Aishwarya Sakhuja on meeting herself without ‘filters or performance’

Actress Aishwarya Sakhuja shared a profound reflection on self-growth, saying she is learning to meet herself without “filters or performance.”

Taking to Instagram, the actress opened up about healing, restraint and quiet strength. She also spoke about the intimacy of embracing one’s truth without rushing the process or shrinking her thoughts, adding that sometimes, simply being honest with oneself is enough.

“Becoming someone who doesn’t rush her healing. Becoming someone who doesn’t shrink her thoughts. Becoming someone who knows that strength doesn’t always look like fire, sometimes it looks like restraint,” she wrote as the caption.

The 41-year-old actress spoke about the intimacy of meeting oneself without any filters or performance.

“There’s a certain intimacy in meeting yourself like this. No filters. No performance. Just truth, staring back. And maybe that’s enough,” she added.

Aishwarya was a Miss India finalist in 2006. From 2010 to 2012, she starred in the TV show ‘Saas Bina Sasural’. She was also seen in other fictional shows, including ‘Main Naa Bhoolungi’, ‘Trideviyaan’, and ‘Rishta.com’.

The actress is primarily known for her role as Ahaana Khurana in ‘Yeh Hai Chahatein’ and as air hostess Shilpa Shrivastava in ‘Zyada Mat Udd’. She was also a contestant on reality shows ‘Nach Baliye 7’ and ‘Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 7’.

On the film front, she was last seen in ‘Ujda Chaman’ (2019), directed by Abhishek Pathak. The film stars Sunny Singh, Maanvi Gagroo, Saurabh Shukla, Karishma Sharma and Aishwarya Sakhuja. It is an official remake of the 2017 Kannada dramedy ‘Ondu Motteya Kathe’. The film revolves around a balding 30-year-old bachelor searching for a wife under a strict deadline.

On the personal front, Aishwarya married her longtime beau in December 2014.