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It has been nearly two months since her OTT debut Heeramandi dropped on Netflix, but the conversations around Sharmin Segal refuses to stop. The actor hs been at the receiving end of relentless trolling on social media over her performance on the Sanjay Leela Bhansali directed series, which many dubbed flat and one-note.
Sharmin’s performance was soon turned into a meme and an Instagram trend, where people started mocking her dialogue delivery and mimicking her act on the period drama. Defending her performance on the show, Sharmin had previously claimed that she was inspired by Meena Kumari’s act in Pakeezah(1972) and was trying to evoke a similar emotion in her performance as the tragic Alamzeb.
The comment, however, backfired as it invited more hate for Sharmin, as trolls went after her for comparing herself to a legend like Meena Kumari. In an interview with Zoom, the actor was asked about her “nothingness” comment on Meena Kumari, to which she answered that her statement was selectively picked and turned into something “negative”, which she never even meant.
“I don’t know why people are leaving out the sentence that I said which was, ‘I tried to emulate the way Meena Kumari ji looks into nothingness’ and just extracting the word ‘nothingness’ from what I said. In no way was I calling Meena Kumariji or her performance in Paakeezah ‘nothingness’. That is not something I would ever do.
“I was referring to the way she stares into infinity and looks at something celestial that only she can see, whereas in reality there is nothing there. It is just sad how people have literally only picked up one negative word, which wasn’t meant to be negative and taken it out of context. I would also like to make one more thing clear on this issue. I would never compare myself to Meena Kumariji. She is a legend. I was just inspired by her greatness. As an artist, we are always inspired by our surroundings and the people we look up to. It was never a comparison,” she added.
The actor also spoke about several videos on the internet which surfaced from the promotional events of Heeramandi, where many dubbed Sharmin’s attitude towards her costars, especially Adity Rao Hydari and Sanjeeda Sheikh as ‘arrogant’, where she was seen as a privileged insider schooling the two “outsiders”.
When asked if she feels that outsiders versus insider narrative was drummed up, Sharmin said she wouldn’t know anything about that, but felt her interview clips were “being taken out of context.”
“Some of my co-stars have spoken graciously as to how these interviews were taken out of context. I share a very cordial equation with both Aditi and Sanjeeda. I wish that people would not use 10 second out of context clips to define the relationship I share with them,” she added.
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