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Sanam Saeed: ‘I don’t allow people to crack me with pressure’
Updated On: 02 July, 2024 06:21 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu
Reuniting with Fawad after over a decade for Barzakh, Sanam Saeed says she focuses on the role than audience expectations
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Sanam Saeed
There is a word Barzakh director Asim Abbasi has for his show’s leading lady, Sanam Saeed. He calls her his ‘entheogen,’ a spiritual psychedelic drug. The secret behind the name lies in the duo’s new series, which tells the story of a reclusive 76-year-old man who invites his children and grandchildren to celebrate his wedding with the spirit of his true love. The first thing we ask her is whether it helps knowing the director’s process when the theme is so complex. “It helps to work with the director who is also the writer. There is more room to question, be curious and explore. He knows all my weak points. That helped the performance. There is a great level of trust between us, so the drive to push boundaries together is far more. This is a nuanced character; I had to bring control into the performance. Sherzaad is neither from this realm nor from the other. She is the glue to this family drama,” says Saeed, who reunites with Abbasi after their much-loved film Cake (2018).
A story like this, part magic realism and part family drama, has no reference point. But Saeed isn’t looking for one. “Why seek a reference at all? Sherzaad can be a reference point someday. She is soft yet stern, and brings a feeling of loss. You can’t read her emotions.”
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