Shabana Azmi on staying safe & sane during Covid : Bollywood News – Bollywood Hungama

May 8, 2021

The mighty Shabana Azmi shot a whole internet collection for Steven Spielberg in Budapest and a function movie for Shekhar Kapoor in London during the Covid disaster. But now all capturing has come to a grinding halt. The formidable actress is now at her farmhouse on the outskirts of Mumbai along with her husband and a few shut members of her household.

Her farmhouse is known as Sukoon. Bu there isn’t any sukoon (peace) in her thoughts proper now. “Every day we are losing a relative or a friend. Jadu (husband Javed Akhtar) lost two cousins on the same day. Before we can mourn the passing of one loved one, another one goes. I’m numbed with grief and disbelief.”

Shabana is in quarantine with household. “At Sukoon we step out only into the garden. Otherwise we are completely indoors. The family is here with us, and that’s most comforting at a time like this. We do not leave the house. Grocery is brought to the house. We have created our own bubble over here in Sukoon, a lesson I learnt from my shootings abroad after the pandemic broke out.”

I ask her concerning the work she is thought to with the needy. “I am monitoring the work at Mijwan (her ancestral home town in Uttar Pradesh) for Covid relief, including providing oxygen concentrators on a daily basis. But these are not things one should be talking about. Right now it’s time for action, not self-congratulation.”

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