Somy Ali Opens Up About NGO, Rumors, and Her New Production Venture

Actress Somy Ali who worked with top Bollywood actors in nineties in Mumbai and runs an NGO No More Tears for 17 years which deals with victims of Domestic Violence, human trafficking, sexual abuse, and many more isn’t interested in seeking any publicity for the wrong reasons. Her work speaks for itself. She came back into the public domain only four and a half years ago and the objective is to increase the reach of her NGO No More Tears so that victims from all over the world can reach out. She lives in Miami since 2020.  In an unfiltered conversation, she clears the air especially because my mother feels hurt after remembering fake news about me having cancer.

People on social media are accusing you of taking publicity by speaking about your past. Comment.

All of you question why I am bringing up something that happened 22 years ago, well here’s your answer because I was tired of being called one who does things for publicity. Let me start by informing you that this began in 2021 and is still happening to date. So this person begins by banning my show about my NGO No More Tears which was saving thousands of lives of young girls, boys, and women brought to the U.S.  from India to be sold into human trafficking rings. He is bullying me even after over 22 years of my dumping him for infidelity and much more, scaring people into distancing themselves from me. Take away films offered to me from India. But here’s the thing about never giving up and if you know me at all, you know I am not one to ever do so. My show about my nonprofit organization was banned in India by him (a scared individual).  I saved his life twice in fact, not because I care for him, but because I am a pacifist and believe murder and violence not the answer ever. I call a spade a spade. When my show Fight or flight was to get aired on Discovery Plus in 2022. this star we are speaking of had an attorney who defended Trump over the Stormy Daniels case send me a demand letter to scare me and tell me to stop sharing my truth or I would be sued. I have supported many celebs including Zeenat Aman’s viewpoint on live-in relationships, expressing my concern for SRK’s son and Mithun Da's speedy recovery on knowing about fake news concerning his health on social media without expecting anything. I live in Miami and am not acting in Bollywood. I have been featured in Forbes and Fortune as one of the 100 most powerful women in business. I have been a recipient of the L’Oréal Woman of Worth Award in 2013, two Presidential Awards, both, Obama and Bush.  Winner of the American Heritage Award and many more, do you really think I need publicity from someone who wouldn’t get a double look in the United States of America? It’s not me getting publicity out of him, on the contrary, I am giving him publicity. Think about it and save his life.

From where did the rumor of cancer and plastic surgery get initiated?

 The actor who all know and whose name I don’t want to take turned all my friends, directors, producers, and family members against me by calling me a liar. He continued bullying me as you told the entire Hindi Film Industry not to work with me and that I had cancer plus plastic surgery. That rumor affected my mom and my well-wishers as they believed I am suffering from cancer and hiding it.  So let’s apply logic here: I have cancer, which requires Chemotherapy, but I am simultaneously getting plastic surgery. Bravo and kudos to the journalists, Simi Chandoke and Ujjawal Trivedi. As one with degrees in psychology and broadcast journalism, plus a moral compass, I must ask Simi that my memory of you has always been one who was extremely kind to me and it was reciprocal. Now given the way you look with or without plastic surgery, I can have a blast comparing the sewage system having more of an appeal than your looks now and even back then. You see because it was I who worked with the biggest Bollywood actors, not you. And I didn’t even want to act. But I won’t stoop to your level or you know what let this be a one-off, hence I did. So let me say this: how can someone who I remember to be such a good person just turn into an awful evil person in a snap? Enjoy being a toilet bowl brush in your next life. As for Ujjawal, I don’t know you from Adam, but I have heard that you used to be a very well-respected journalist. What happened? I seriously mean it, what happened? I am seriously concerned for you as a therapist because only people with sociopathic tendencies would make up life-threatening ailments like cancer which happens to run in my family. You made my mother cry and worry and drive me nuts about getting regular mammograms. That’s not very intellectual journalism and nor is it getting all your facts together which is the number one rule of being a journalist. I don’t hate you for me, but I am curious what made you make such false claims and make my mother so severely worried? No, no, I am genuinely intrigued?  My mother is a hundred percent pure soul and to see her in pain by thinking about the past news of my cancer is painful. I love my mother and will go to any extent to give her peace and comfort.  

Is it true you had started getting offers from Hollywood and how you decided to open a production house?

I had started getting offers from Hollywood. If I know this person which I do better than any of you, he will never stop. I tried to work in Hollywood, but he had the agency send me a letter that they will “never” represent me. The agency in the U.S. is partnered with his talent agency in Mumbai. So after trying everything, I have initiated Somy Ali Productions, LLC. I will write, direct, produce, perform, and give new actors breaks they couldn’t catch because their daddies were not affiliated with the film industry. And, we know who rules Bollywood. We know who buys awards. We know who murders brilliantly talented actors’ and singers’ careers.

What are your plans now?

I continue to focus on my NGO No More Tears and its mission to help people all over the world. I mind my own business. I live life one day at a time. Everyone should do something to help others. It is nice to be important but more important to be nice.

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