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  • Ushna Shah loves Sharmin Segal’s performance in ‘Heeramandi’

    Ushna Shah loves Sharmin Segal’s performance in ‘Heeramandi’

    Actress Ushna Shah has come to the defense of Sharmin Segal, who faced criticism for her acting in the web series ‘Heeramandi’. Shah posted a tweet on X (formerly Twitter) writing, “Sharmin Segal underplayed Alamzeb but only slightly, which seems to be difficult to digest for an audience used to be a more dramatic style. The character would have been butchered had she over-played it, it would have become generic.”

    “She mastered the Urdu dialect better than most Hindi speaking actors & the grain in her voice was spectacular,” Shah added.
    Looking at British actor Jason Shah’s performance, who played Alastair Cartwright in the series, Ushna wrote, “The real tragedy is Cartwright not having an English accent; he was playing a British coloniser! Forget Received Pronunciation, he didn’t even bother forging a modern Brit accent? Even the English speaking Nawaabs should have had a trans-Atlantic-ish speak, similar to Jinnah, Gandhi, Nehru etc.” She added the hashtags ‘Heeramandi’ and ‘Sharmin Segal’.
    Sharmin Segal is Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s niece.

    The web series Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, which co-stars Segal alongside Richa Chadha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Manisha Koirala, Sonakshi Sinha, and Sanjeeda Sheikh in major roles, as well as Farida Jalal, Fardeen Khan, Shekhar and Adhyayan Suman, and Taha Shah, is available on Netflix.

  • Cross-Border appreciation: Heeramandi’s Taha Shah receives praise from Yashma Gill

    Cross-Border appreciation: Heeramandi’s Taha Shah receives praise from Yashma Gill

    Actress and model Yashma Gill, a very active social media user, has been sent a thank you message by Indian actor Taha Shah.
    Shah is an Indian actor who played the character of Tajdar in Netflix’s ‘Heeramandi’, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Both Yashma and others complimented him on his performance, which was well appreciated. Through texts, Taha expressed gratitude to Yashma and sent love from across the border.

    She shared the screenshot of messages on her stories, writing, “I’m sorry if I’m being extra but I really want to enjoy this purely as a fan moment,”
    Yashma is being made fun of by people for acting like a normal fangirl while being a bigger star than Taha Shah. The internet tookYashma Gill’s excitement as follows:

  • Sanjay Leela Bhansali thought about including Pakistani actors in Heeramandi

    Sanjay Leela Bhansali thought about including Pakistani actors in Heeramandi

    The much-hyped Netflix series ‘Heeramandi’, directed by renowned Bollywood filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, is now streaming on Netflix. It marks Sanjay’s debut as a director on OTT platforms and features a stellar cast including Manisha Koirala, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Richa Chadha, Fardeen Khan, Sharmin Segal and Shekhar Suman. The ‘Heeramandi’ team has been giving many interviews on social media and in the media as they promote the expensive project.

    Bhansali shared in an interview on YouTube that he once thought about casting top Pakistani actors for the series.
    “I thought about casting many actors over eighteen years. Initially, I considered Rekha Ji, Kareena, and Rani Mukherji. Later, I had Fawad Khan, Mahira Khan and Imran Abbas in my mind for ‘Heeramandi, but I ended up with this ensemble cast.”

    Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar is a visually stunning drama, easily identifiable as a Bhansali production. It tells the stories of courtesans, known as tawaifs, living in Lahore’s red-light district of ‘Heera Mandi’ during the Indian independence movement in the British Raj.