New Delhi: Actress Shama Sikander is a well-known identify in tv, net and music video area. She has been round for greater than a decade and has an enormous fan following as properly. Shama’s new music video ‘Hawa Karda’ launched just lately and is receiving a heat reception on-line. The stunner in an unique dialog with Zee News Online talked about varied issues beneath the solar – films, music and love!
Q. You are again with a brand new music ‘Hawa Karda’, how was the expertise?
A. I’m very excited after a very long time now. My music is releasing so I’m actually trying to a extremely massive hit quantity. It is a really very peppy romantic love dance quantity the place folks can really you recognize really feel the high-speed romance to a really very dancing kind of a music and so they can dance on it! So, right now of the pandemic and lockdown happening, I assume it’ll a pleasant breeze of air for folks to pay attention too. Anyways, I assume ek bahut lambe time se ek you recognize bada achha gana, romantic gaana nahi launch hua hai so I’m completely happy that it’s releasing and I’m completely happy that you recognize this music is popping out right now.
Q. How was it taking pictures amid the COVID-19 disaster?
A. Very troublesome, we needed to observe quite a lot of guidelines and rules. Uh, on the similar time we needed to shoot close by as a result of all the opposite nations are shut. The music was you recognize was deliberate to be shot someplace in a pleasant location however since COVID-19, quite a lot of issues are restricted so we needed to shoot it exterior of Mumbai and we really obtained a only a few hours, perhaps one shift I assume to complete the entire music and it occurred to be the most popular day in Bombay that day and it was an out of doors shoot so very troublesome to shoot out of doors. Uh, I assume you recognize, quite a lot of issues had been hit or miss due to you recognize this pandemic factor however we managed to shoot a great music, the staff was in good spirit, we had been all in good spirit, we really had enjoyable on the shoot. It was a extremely actually easy shoot and no person fell sick after that in order that was an ideal factor and the music got here out very nice.Â
Q. Shama, you had been a number one face on TV as soon as. Why did you permit it fully?
A. Well, I left tv as a result of I wasn’t proud of the form of merchandise/tasks that had been being made on the time and I needed to do movies. I needed to do one thing that wasn’t so taxing. Television at the moment was very very taxing after which all of the exhibits that had been provided to me at the moment had been very repetitive to what I had performed up to now and I didn’t wish to repeat that so clearly I was making an attempt to maintain my, uh, I imply I as an actor sit up for doing one thing new, it’s giving me a problem or not, it makes me really feel excited to discover one thing new. If I’m caught doing the identical form of tasks then I don’t row as an actor or as a human being and that will get very disturbing for me.
So yeah, that’s why I stopped doing tv and these days I’m actually completely happy doing net and movie and music movies, this style provides me time for myself and time to vary into totally different characters from one mission to the opposite as a result of you recognize in tv one mission goes on ceaselessly and you then’re caught in that one character solely which may get a bit boring at instances if the character doesn’t go within the desired manner or one thing like that. That’s why I left it.Â
Q. Are you exploring something new within the OTT area?
A. Yes, I’ve one mission beginning very quickly. I hope this lockdown ends quick and so they permit us to shoot so we can begin with my mission. I’m actually enthusiastic about that.
Q. How was it working with Gaurav Bajaj in ‘Hawa Karda’?
A. It was improbable working with Gaurav, he’s a really peppy you recognize, a really enjoyable loving man and he was joking from the very starting, playing around and that brings a really good vitality on the set. I’m a bit reserved the primary day normally, particularly when I’m working with a brand new staff, with people who I don’t know from earlier than and this was a brand new staff. I had by no means labored with them so mainly, I was attending to know everyone on that very day, so, I was a bit quiet at first. You know, due to Gaurav’s peppy vitality we all kind of you recognize, even Dhwani he’s very enjoyable to work with and Alok, each are very very fun-loving guys.
So, it was actually quite a lot of enjoyable and a really easy course of, you recognize that claims lots of people don’t have any issues on the primary day of the shoot that speaks so much concerning the folks, the form of people that had been concerned in that shoot. So, I’m very very completely happy that we all set to work collectively and I’m actually wanting ahead to doing quite a lot of work with the identical staff in future.
Q. Tell us concerning the distinction between working in films, TV and net exhibits.
A. Well the one distinction, I would say from TV to movies or net is, the net exhibits have, you recognize their very own freedom to specific and in addition they’ve the liberty to shoot whereby when we shoot for tv, it’s a supply that should occur daily and that may be very taxing typically when there isn’t a financial institution and a lot of the instances you recognize, quite a lot of instances the channel scraps the episode.
So many issues occur at a shoot and if the episode isn’t full then the actors need to go overboard and overwork and end that day’s episode anyhow and that’s one thing that I don’t like. I don’t like that we don’t, we the actors working within the mission don’t have that freedom and you recognize that’s why quite a lot of tv actors fell sick at the moment, they didn’t have any me-time, they might not spend a lot time with their households on the time when I was taking pictures, it was actually dangerous. I don’t know the way it’s proper now.
That’s the one distinction I see on Television. Wherein, tv additionally provides you fame and it additionally has the potential and energy to make you a family identify, folks kind of take you as a member of the family, that plus level can also be there. Wherein, in movies, movies have their very own magic. It’s the large display screen the place folks go to see a bigger than life persona, the icon created on the large display screen. But, I assume with the OTT platform, all that’s altering, just like the content material in OTT is actually totally different than what you see on TV or movies.
It is extra real looking, the strategy in direction of it, it’s extra real looking. The taking pictures, whereas we are taking pictures for any of those tasks, I imply, you recognize movies and webs is the same as one another as a result of the form of budgets that are spent, the form of precautions that they soak up delivering high quality than amount, it’s the identical in net, relying on what sort of present are you doing, and what budgets they’ve and which staff are you working with. Other than that, I assume I’m actually actually having fun with the OTT area, it’s actually cool, it’s meant for actors like me, it’s an actor’s medium and I’m so completely happy that it lastly occurred the place there could be a medium which is absolutely based mostly in your expertise and never anything.Â
Q. Hawa Karda is all about expressing love. Was there any time if you had been shy to specific your love for any person or if not, is there somebody particular in your life?
A. I assume when I was rising up as a teen, I was a really shy particular person however I nonetheless bear in mind, despite being so shy I wasn’t afraid of expressing my love for one individual that I was in love with at the moment as a result of he didn’t inform me he beloved me however I did. I imply I was the primary one to specific it. So, I assume love has its immense energy, love is aware of no concern even if in case you have different fears in your life like concern of speaking to folks however love does one thing phenomenal inside you and that i learnt with time. Now I am much more vocal about the whole lot as a result of I do the whole lot with love. All my experiences, my expression of love, are very very expressive, I am very very expressive or vocal about issues.
Whether it is love or no love, you recognize i wish to kind of communicate out aloud so folks perceive it higher. I like to speak it by way of in order that the opposite particular person has a higher concept of what I am considering or how I wish to go a couple of specific factor. But yeah in fact all time I love myself on a regular basis. The particular particular person in my life Shama would say is me. I am essentially the most particular particular person for myself. I love myself within the true sense of love, in true that means of love. Not boosting you recognize with satisfaction however with utter humbleness and with utter humility. I do love myself and I am that particular particular person for myself.Â
Other than me, sure I have a partner whom I love totally. His identify is James Milliron. I am engaged to him. And he is without doubt one of the greatest folks I have ever come throughout. And I am simply so completely happy that he’s my partner, who understands me absolutely, he expresses his love to me daily, or I would say each half hour. It’s lovely if you discover somebody precisely such as you when it comes to the way you conduct your self and the way you consider love. You discover a partner who thinks of love similar to the best way you do. It’s complete bliss!
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