She may have played the mother of a teenager in her film Neel Battey Sannata, but Swara Bhaskar is a classic Millennial in real life, who loves to spend more than save. While money is synonymous with a fulfillment of desires for Millennials, Bhaskar believes having money is “liberating”. Even though she has never lacked money in her entire life, she realizes that it is a privilege to be able to work and pursue her dreams. Discussing her journey into Bollywood and her career as an actor, Swara Bhaskar tells Outlook Money’s Malini Bhupta in an exclusive interview, that her struggle has never been financial. She says: “I told my parents that they had to view me as a long-term investment, which would yield them great returns over a period of time.” Ask her if the investment made by her parents in her career has paid off, and she simply says, “You have to ask them that.” But suffice to say that Bhaskar considers herself to be a capital-intensive project. Like all Millennials, her standard crib is: “I am always paying bills.”