Fatima Sana Shaikh plays in Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari (courtesy fatimasanashaikh)
Strong points
- “The technology was very new,” Fatima said of the 90s
- “So everything seemed sweet and romantic,” she added.
- “There was no instant messaging like today,” she also said
New Delhi:
There’s a certain romance and sweetness in the 1990s that was free from the hassle of social media overdrive, says Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari actor Fatima Sana Shaikh, for whom playing hide and seek with his friends is the most memorable part of the past. time.
Shaikh, who stars in ’90s comedy Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari, said the information explosion of the digital age stands in stark contrast to the slower, less corrupt decade that saw the advent of the internet.
“There had been technological development at the time, but it was not corrupt. There was no harassment on social media. The technology was very new, so it all felt sweet and romantic.
“There were phones, there was no instant messaging like today. We weren’t used to being hassled by technology back then. Now we’re looking for rehab.” , the 28-year-old actor told PTI in an interview.
Shaikh, who was a child actor in popular films like Chachi 420 (1997) and A 2 Ka 4 (2001), stated that when she was not on a movie set, she would spend all of her time playing with friends.
“I have great memories of playing hide and seek and a game of Kho-Kho with my friends. Children find a playground anywhere – it can be a street or a construction site, ”she added.
Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari is billed as an unlikely comedy about a hunting wedding sleuth that turns into a chase game and the actor has said she got on the project because of the storyline.
Directed by Abhishek Sharma from Tere Bin Laden and Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran, the film also stars Manoj Bajpayee and Diljit Dosanjh.
“It’s a funny movie and it has such good actors like Manoj sir and Diljit. Abhishek Sharma is a good director with a promise that makes you feel the movie will be good.”
Shaikh plays Tulsi, who according to his brother, marriage detective Mangal (Bajpayee) is the perfect Indian woman. But he doesn’t know that she has a different side to her personality that comes out after meeting Suraj (Dosanjh).
The actor said that the definition of what it means to be an Indian woman has undergone many changes over the years and women today are increasingly independent of the stereotypes imposed on them.
“We have always had progressive Bharatiya naris in the audience. In each generation there are women who were a little different and who were labeled as outcasts. But now there is more acceptance, it is in sort of okay. Today more and more women are independent and progressive, ”she said.
“I think I fall into that category of outcast,” she joked.
Shaikh will also be seen in the absurd comedy of Anurag Basu Ludo, which released Thursday on Netflix.
She plays the gentle, manipulative, and goal-oriented Pinky to Rajkummar Rao Aalu’s “emotional madman”.
Speaking about his character, the actor said, “Pinky will ask for help, say thank you, then she will fight, then come back for help to say thank you but get what she wants.”
Shaikh said that Basu didn’t give the whole script to the actors because he didn’t want them to come on set “too prepared”.
“We were getting to know what the daytime scenes were in the morning, so it wasn’t like we were totally ignorant. When he was sitting with us he was chatting, explaining, if you didn’t get it, he will tell you again.
“I told him I was having a hard time learning the lines and I would say, ‘Please give me the script in advance and we’ll do whatever you like when I get on set. So he gave me the script. “
They worked together to understand each other’s styles, she added.
“He’s doing this because he wants ‘magic’ in the scene. When you see the movie, you see that no reaction is wrong, it’s very spontaneous.”
With Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari Heading for a theatrical release amid the coronavirus pandemic on November 15, Shaikh said she was happy people could see her work after two years, regardless of the medium.
His last outing Hindostan thugs, which was billed as one of the biggest event films of 2018, faced extreme criticism and crashed upon release.
“It’s been a long time since none of my movies have been released. What’s important is that people can see my work. When I got to know ‘Suraj …’ hits theaters, I was very I know the pandemic is still here, but people now really want to get out of their homes.
“We have to turn a new leaf. Cinema is fundamentally an escape. You see movies at home but that’s another thing, there are a lot of things going through your mind. But in a movie theater, all of your attention is on the screen, ”she says.
Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari Also includes Annu Kapoor, Manoj Pahwa, Seema Pahwa, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Nehha Pendse, Manuj Sharma, Neeraj Sood, Abhishek Banerjee, Vijay Raaz, Karishma Tanna and Vanshikha Sharma.
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