 So, today on Candid Conversations, I'm here with Srishti Bixen, doesn't need an introduction, but still for the sake of formality. She's a content creator, internet sensation. She mixes comedy with a lot of social commentary also. Srishti, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me, Kavish. So, Srishti, to begin right at the start, you know, one, I was seeing your Insta profile and one phrase which you used to describe yourself is human woman. So, Srishti, please explain what you mean by that. I also use water park to describe myself. This is the one which I thought I'll ask you about. I mean, I don't know. People like, it's very productive when people identify themselves with their pronouns and like all of that. So, I just wanted to put out there that I'm not an alien creature. I'm a human woman. It's nothing. It's not based in any kind of intellectual decision making. It is completely random and pure nonsense in keeping with what I am like in life. Okay. So, that's what she says about it. Now, there's another video of yours where you're talking to your cat. Okay. Which one? I'm talking like a crazy person with my cat all day long. Yeah, I'm talking to that. So, this is the one where you are playing the role of your mom and you are talking to your cat about marriage saying that only basically it's you and Salman Khan left. I think it's a very valid point. What are your views on that? My views are in the video. What are my views on that? It's obviously not true. I'm not the only single person left in this universe. That's how my mother sees me but that's not how I see myself. But yeah, I thought it was like, there was a lot of Ranveer Alia wedding content and I'm sure like me a lot of other women or men, anybody was feeling slight FOMO and wanted something similar for themselves. So, I decided to make content out of that FOMO feels. Yeah, that's about it. Okay, and what are your views on personal and even otherwise as far as the reason I asked this question as far as marriage is concerned because now we are getting into a generation where a lot of us are deciding either not to marry or delay our marriage. So, what are your views on that? I mean, I feel like I'm at a point in my life personally where marriage needs to make sense in terms of value addition to my life because I live a pretty good life. I'm very privileged in that sense. I live a very comfortable life and marriage needs to make sense to me in terms of, okay, what will this add to my life? How will this add value to my life? Because relationships or marriage is not the only way to find fulfilling human connections in the world. Friendships can be very fulfilling. Your work can be very fulfilling. And that shouldn't just be looked at as a way to like remedy loneliness, which I feel like a lot of people do like they do look at companionship and marriage with that lens. And there are also a lot of people who do genuinely want to spend their lives and commit to a partner and do that for the sake of love. And I really appreciate that. That hasn't happened for me yet. I can't say what will happen in the future if I will find someone who I want to commit to that way. Let's see. Let's hope that it does. Here's hoping for the best. What if the people who look at your Instagram profile and it's a mixture of comedy videos, you're attending a lot of events. How you've also started posting a lot of fitness content. Clearly you're fitter than real. What if one of them say that, you know, Sisti Dixit obviously, one reason she's probably not getting married is because she's got so many choices. I mean, so many eligible choices all around her because she's got such a happy life. And then what would you say to that? That doesn't happen. That is not the truth. It does not happen. I'm not stalked with options out here. There aren't as many options as one might think. Okay. Yeah, that's not true. I don't believe you but moving on to the next question. Any comment on the current comedy scene in India? You feel over the last, let's say over the last decade, since stand-up comedy really picked up in India, it's improved or any way do you think you would want it to go? Or it's perfectly fine the way it is and it's just moving organically? I think it is moving organically. There's just different kinds of comedy content available for people to watch now, not just stand-up, which I find very encouraging and that's how I made my way into this space. I'm not good at stand-up. I tried it twice and I've got so much anxiety trying to do it that I refuse to do it again. But apart from stand-up, there is so much content. There's so many new voices on the internet in the space and live events. There are many ways people can be funny now. I don't know if I want to change anything. There should be space for all kinds of comedy. There should be space for all kinds of opinions. There should be enough space for people to be able to express themselves the way they want. And also to be accepted with that understanding of this is jokes, this is comedy, this is not coming from a place of wanting to hurt other people. And also there should be humility in comedy creators or people who are doing comedy to realize that if they have hurt other people, they should be apologetic because I've learned that myself. I say sorry the quickest. Because I know that that's not my intention. My intention is not ever to hurt, it's only to make people laugh. Sometimes I can miss the mark and that's completely okay as well. So I'm always okay with apologizing and understanding where the criticism is coming from and kind of incorporating that into whatever I do in the future and stuff like that. So yeah, I think it's moving at an organic pace, it's going in a direction that is very fruitful and there are so many young voices now. Young creators now who are making such different kinds of comedy and I'm very excited to be a part of it. Yeah, I think quite very sensible words and also what you commented upon the fact that nowadays a lot of I mean the sensitivity levels have also gone up at the same time from the mutant side also understanding where maybe they may have crossed the line and sort of acknowledging that. I mean it's a tight rope, it's a tough line to walk. It's a tight rope because it gets crazy at times. Like I would like to always empathize in such situations and feel like if someone were to make a joke that I didn't feel like how would I respond to it. And I mean I wouldn't always respond to it the way some kind of pros do on the internet like I wouldn't actively go out and start attacking someone. I would probably feel upset I would feel like my feelings are hurt and like all of that. But I do try to empathize more now when I see criticism. And I try to incorporate that in the way I do stuff without trying without letting it hamper what I really want to do and say and without letting it make me like inactive or passive. I think you'll make for an interesting author on a certain book topic but moving on to a lighter note is Maldives overrated and why are all the Hollywood celebrities going there. I mean I think maybe you should know. Maldives is not overrated I'm just jealous. I want that life for myself and I'm just spreading hate because I don't have it that's literally it. I'm just always looking at other people's lives and how they are like fancy I don't know they're at a fancy beach and they are all like in bikinis looking hot being aesthetic and like I'm like I want that but I can't. So how do I resolve this feeling then I'll just simply put my jealousy out there with statements like Maldives is overrated. But I mean yeah if you can go for if you can go for it indulge yourself be safe and show it to people like that's what this that's what Instagram is for. Instagram is for you to show your life to other people and if it is a fancy life if it is a life where you are traveling to a lot of aesthetic places and sure why not. Do yourself live your best life. Last question it's a sort of a cliche question but what do you like most about being famous what do you dislike most about being famous. Honestly I still consider myself to be like semi famous I'm not like at the level of fame where I can't go out and get groceries or I can't go step out without being like that like that's not my life. I have I live a very like I can be comfortable anonymous when I want to be and I'm also like recognized on the streets a lot which is also fun. So I don't think that I have any problems right now with being famous. The only drawback sometimes I do feel is like people tend to maybe treat you as like you are better than everybody else and I really am not like I probably am worse than everybody else. And there is I feel like I there is less of space for me to make mistakes and like having said that I also get so much love so much support so much appreciation that I can't just dismiss that and be like oh it's so hard to like just say what you want to say and like feel what you want to feel because you're famous and like you get attacked for certain things that you say and do. I always focus on what is the positive of having this platform of having this voice and and of having this kind of each and influence. I have so many people who really love and adore me and like it makes me feel very good about myself. And when people like recognize me on the street and they want to take a picture and they tell me what they like what kind of content they like me to do and what they love the most. And I just love having those interactions because it makes me feel like OK I'm reaching out to so many people and being heard. So yeah I like being famous. It's fun. In a nutshell I like I mean I mean I mean I like it and and so OK fine so a funny funny comedian with a sensible head on a shoulder that is just a picture for you. Just thank you so much for talking to us obviously looking forward to more discussions with your cat and all those comedy videos but yeah all the best for the future. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for having me and so much fun.