Somy Ali, who was seen in Bollywood movies from 1991 to 1998 and currently runs her non-profit organisation No More Tears in Florida, recently turned producer with her banner Somy Ali Productions, and her short documentary Grey got selected for a premiere at the South Asian International Film Festival of Florida. The former Bollywood actress got emotional at the event and confessed that her everyday goal is No More Tears.
When the judges admired her for her work, she quipped that she wouldn’t miss the opportunity to hang out with ‘desis’ ever. She said, “I’m always hanging out with FBI guys and police officers. When do I get to be like this? I’m happy.”
The judges then said that she has got an amazing sense of humour, to which she replied, “I have the darkest sense of humour, and some get it, some don’t, but I don’t care. It’s because of the things that I see. I’ve had a five-year-old girl die in my arms in the hospital because she was raped many times. And I’ve had a baby girl that was raped die in my arms. So if I don’t have a dark sense of humour, I will not be mentally well. I need therapy once a week because I need an outlet for what I see every day. Because I see the worst of humanity, but then I see the good in humanity when I see people donate, and they care. And it gives me hope.”
“I am continuing No More Tears because it is my only purpose every morning. I know we will survive, and No More Tears will never die,” she added, and further said that even if someone is donating ten dollars to five dollars, it adds up to save lives.
“A woman with a baby in her arms struggles to find enough to feed her child. For me, motherhood was never just about having children—it was about creating a better world for them. At 23, my biggest dream was to get married and have kids. My brother always told me, ‘Somy, if anyone in this world should be a mother, it’s you.’ Though I never became a mother in the traditional sense, I have no regrets. The children at No More Tears are my children. They call me ‘Somy Mommy,’ and that love is more than enough—I have more children than I ever imagined, and I have more coming,” she said.
Somy further mentioned that all the kids that come to No More Tears are broken and she has to fix them which in a way helps her heal. “I remember my mother’s words, where she always said that when I was going through a bad phase, I wished Somy and her No More Tears were there. And that’s what keeps me going. That’s the only thing that keeps me going,” she ended.
