There is nothing that may cease Shabana Azmi from working, not even a damaged wrist. In reality, the actor was again on set able to shoot simply two days after breaking her wrist. She says she believes the present should go on, and hopes to work until her final breath.
“That is the way I have always been. Since the beginning, I have been encouraged through my upbringing that I was always made to believe that if I felt something strongly enough, I should go ahead and do just that,” Azmi tells us.
In reality, the recommendation to not go got here her manner when she determined to go to London to shoot Shekhar Kapur’s worldwide challenge, What’s Love Got to Do with It? in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“When I was told not to go, it was not coming from a place that ‘you are doing something wrong’, but in a way that it might be a hazardous thing to do. But I trusted my gut. Now, I am working with my broken wrist. Within two days after breaking my wrist, I had to come to Budapest to shoot for Steven Spielberg’s Halo. My family was worried and said ‘How can you travel? What can you do?’ But I wanted to do it. Now, I am managing to work with this. It’s putting some challenges on the crew, and it’s putting some challenges on me. But over the years, I have realised that I am happiest when I’m working. And that is what I would like to do always. I would like to die with my shoes on,” says the 72-year-old.
Opening up about her harm, she says, “This is not so bad. There was a time when I twisted my ankle, just before a show. My mother said to me, ‘you can’t cancel a show’. She was an actor herself. She said, ‘The show must go on’. And I have believed in that since then. At that time, I didn’t know it was a fracture. I thought it was a sprain. But I went up after taking injections. So. such things keep happening and you have to just carry on”.
In reality, with regards to work, she was completely happy to reunite with Kapur on a challenge which examines the complexities that include organized marriage in a contemporary courting world which is dominated by apps.
“I worked with him after a long time, and didn’t feel that much time had passed at all. His strength as a director is that he makes the actor feel that it is a collaborative relationship with the director. He loves his actors, and cajoles and inspires them to do what it is that he wants to do. Although we were shooting in very extreme circumstances because Covid-19 pandemic was at its height, we had very strict protocols. When I left India for the shoot, everybody said I was making a mistake,” says the actor as she seems to be again at her expertise.
“We finished the film in 40 days in the midst of the highest COVID pandemic in London. And it was an experience which will stay with me forever,” she ends.
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