Sanjay Leela Bhansali Talks About Sharmin Segal's Performance In Heeramandi Explaining The Technicalities

The Netflix series ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’ was released earlier this month and there has been a lot of buzz around it. Along with the buzz, came a lot of criticism for some actors including the debutante Sharmin Segal who was trolled for her 'wooden expression' and poor acting, and the netizens labelled her a ‘nepo kid.’ The director of the series, filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali recently opened up in a media interaction, reacting to the trolls. Read this article to know all about it.

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Sanjay Leela Bhansali Opens Up About Sharmin Segal's Performance In Heeramandi

While neither Sanjay Leela Bhansali nor Sharmin Segal presented any statement regarding the criticism, the filmmaker did an exclusive interview with Hindustan Times recently and shared his rather insightful statement on his recent on-set collaboration with Sharmin.

He mentioned, “She kept saying, ‘Mama, I’ll underplay.’ I said, ‘Underplay? Are you thinking I’m going to ask you to overplay?” He also talked about how he found her “new energy” fascinating. “I know that they (the new generation of actors) love me as much. I can see it in the way (they ask me), ‘Are you happy? Should we do one more take? Can we do it one more time? Are you okay? I can see that love in their eyes. Now that’s very rare,” he went on.

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The filmmaker has made a name for directing hit films like ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam,’ ‘Black,’ ‘Bajirao Mastani,’ ‘Padmaavat,’ and ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi.’ He also talked about Manisha Koirala’s performance, his first leading lady whom he directed in ‘Khamoshi: The Musical, for Heeramandi.’ “She sat on the set every time for 7 hours, putting mehendi and then giving two shots. She’d go home, put the mehendi for seven hours again the next day, give two shots again and then go home. It’s unbearable,” he said.

The Heeramandi director added that he got the best takes in those two shots and said, “The scene in which she says, ‘Chaand baramde mein utarta nahi.’ I knew she got her sur there itself. She looked just splendid. So each one is giving me something to take home.”

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