DIRECTOR Geetu Mohandas, whose latest film Toxic: A Fairytale For Grown Ups, featuring actor Yash in the lead, hit theathers on Friday, has now disclosed a piece of advice, which her dad once gave her and which has stayed with her ever since. Participatingin theaneventof'Toxic inChennai,directorGeetuMohandas began her speech by saying,"I'm just sort of jogging my memory back to cinema. I started when I was fourand-a-half years old in cinema. From where I started and where I'm standingright now,I wasjust going through my journey." Shethendisclosed,"Iwasaverybad student. I used to constantly fail in school.Iwasneverpicked foranything, for basketball or whatever. I think I wasacomplete failure.Butthere'sone thing which my father told me, which kind of stayed with me." Geetu then shared what he had told her. "He said, 'What doyouwant todo?' Lookslike you're failing.

 

What do you want to be?'," she recalled and added, "So I said, 'a baker'. Then he said, 'Make sure you're the best baker in town.' And that kind of stayed with me." Stating that no matter what she did, no matter where she wanted togo,she was like a horse on blinkers thinking, "I'm not going to listen to the noise. I'm not going tolet anyone bog me down. I need to just get there." The actress also took the opportunity to thank actor Yash for believing in herwhen nobody else did.She said, " Today, I can say that of all the people in the world, in my journey, from when I was a little girl till I'm standing here, Yash believed in me." She went on to say, "And I can't express my gratitude because it's like an echo. When someone claps, the world will clap if that clap is believable. And when he believed, everyone started believing in me. Everyone. And it became likeachainreaction. And I will never forget that first voice."