Hmm ... doesn't sound like there is any TV show in the offing. Hope the journo has does his/her homework, and the bit about Sanaya 'currently shooting for a web series' is accurate ... could explain her silence on Insta.
Had to laugh a bit at the bit about being stuck in the same role for one or two years ... considering that San's last two shows wrapped up in 6 and 9 months respectively, that's not something she can really complain about right now. She was definitely 'stuck' playing Gunjan for over two years ... that was a difficult role for her, as Gunjan for such a polar opposite to real life Sanaya. She enjoyed playing Khushi, though ... was very keen for the show to continue, as she would have gotten very different shades to portray after ASR's death ... I will always regret that never happened.
Interview looks like a rehash of the earlier one ... nothing new. Looking forward to Pihu and the music video now ... Vodka Shots looks like it's still a while away.
102 Not Out - Watched this a couple of weeks ago - nice, sweet movie, with two main characters and one very able supporting character carrying the entire movie on their shoulders. Amitabh Bachhan and Rishi Kapoor - nice to see them together, this time as father and son. Expectedly they delivered their roles beautifully ... but special mention to the actor playing the supporting role - he was amazing, and held his own with these two stalwarts.
Raazi - Fab movie!!! I haven't watched Talvaar yet ... but after this movie, I am a fan of Meghna Gulzar and her style of film making. I'm not a great fan of Alia Bhatt either, but have to say, she was very, very good in this movie ... she had the author backed role, of course, and she played it beautifully. Helped that she has the innocent look required for the role ... a different actress might have brought more steel into the spy bits ... but Alia did well. Vicky Kaushal was amazing as the husband ... the kind of guy any woman would want as her life partner, sensitive, supportive, loving and respectful of his wife and her feelings - dream man!!! The actors playing Alia's trainer and his second hand man - both perfect! Mir's scarred face hinted at a more active, more dangerous past in the shadowy world of spying, while his second in command retained a youthful look and a touch of innocence. Sehmat's family - her father and mother, Rajat Kapoor and Soni Razdan - Soni Razdan with very little screen time and few dialogues, managed to convey subtly her disapproval of her husband's decision to send their daughter into the shadow world of a spy.
Sehmat's husband's family was such a lovely normal family ... they welcomed a new daughter-in-law into their midst without reservation, despite the fact she was from an 'enemy' country ... probably because they thought (very mistakenly, of course!) that she was the daughter of a man whose first loyalty was to Pakistan. Vicky Kaushal as her husband was a lovely man, as mentioned ... but everyone, including the father-in-law, the older brother and sister in law, were warm, welcoming and affectionate. The father-in-law was warm and affectionate with his family, but 'kadak' and all business when discussing work with his sons. Arif Zakaria as the suspicious servant, who was Indian by origin, but Pakistani by choice, did not do much except glower suspiciously at Sehmat ... I expected him to turn color at some point, but he didn't. The side characters - the flower seller, the shopkeeper, the rickshaw vala ... all were brilliant ... it was reassuring to know that India has spies planted everywhere ... till one realises the converse must also be true, and other countries must also have their own spies planted here.
Loved the song Mere Vatan ... a song that can be sung by any country anywhere ... patriotic without being jingoistic. Also loved one dialogue by Iqbal, Sehmat's husband, when his father got furious that Sehmat was a spy ... he said, she's doing this for her country, the same way we do what we do for ours.
Oh for a world without borders ... without the artificial borders created by politics, by religion, by color ... what a beautiful world it would be!
