How ‘Picture This’ Star And EP Simone Ashley Found Pia’s “Standstill” To Be “A Good Thing”

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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains mild spoilers for Prime Video‘s Picture This. In the Prarthana Mohan-directed romantic comedy film Picture This, adapted from the Australian film Five Blind Dates by screenwriter Nikita Lalwani, the first snapshots of Simone Ashley’s lead character Pia Jaswani are quite chaotic.

Absorbed in her passion and profession of photography, Pia has forgotten she has an important appointment with her mother Laxmi (Sindhu Vee) and younger sister Sonal (Anouskha Chadha).

She stumbles to change clothes and rushes out the door only to loose one of her sandals in her haste to catch the bus, making quite the impression on her mom and sister, who called that she was running late. “I think her chaos and clumsiness [were things] that I didn’t relate to as much because I think I’m much more of an organized, grounded person,” Ashley told Deadline in an interview the day after the film launched on Prime Video. “But I also thought it was so endearing and inviting, her character journey, where she really learns a lot about herself, and she stops running and she realizes everything that she has around her and all the answers that she’s looking for are within herself.” The film finds Pia about to turn 30 and facing social pressures from her mother and other relatives as the festivities leading up to Sonal’s wedding unfold.

The appointment turns out to be a revelation of expensive family jewelry that Laxmi will gift her daughters once they get married, but Pia immediately questions the condition because she is confident she doesn’t want to get married.