
Then he said, ‘Let’s shoot.’ When Nawaz asked him what he had told me, Anurag told him, ‘Aap jo use Hindi mei bol rahen the woh maine English mei samjha diya’ (Whatever you said to her in Hindi, I repeated in English.),” she laughs. So, the minute he said this, my eyes just changed. You know everyone can see you but they can’t see or feel you.’ He told me only because he knows I am an attention-craving person. “For this scene, he walked up to me and said, ‘You know if you are on stage and hosting a show, imagine one minute when you go invisible.

He plays to your strengths and weaknesses and then says, ‘Compare them and keep them in the shoes of the character.’ He makes you feel the emotion and asks you to lend it to the character.”Įxplaining Kashyap’s process to extract performances from his actors, Kubra recalls the shoot of a scene between her and Nawazuddin, where the latter gifts her a necklace and tells her, ‘Tujhe dekhte toh sab hain, tu dikhti nahi sabko.’ So, when he is working with you, he understands you as a person. “What I love about Anurag is that he is somebody, who has in-depth knowledge about human emotions. The biggest assistance to Kubra, however, came in the form of her director’s ability to make use of his actors’ personal emotions.

For the first time, she thinks what the world will think about her.” But once her shortcomings are exposed, her world comes crashing down. She knows she can have anybody she wants and she also knows her shortcomings and thrives on them. Her emotional graph was solid, She is cocky, confident and gorgeous. What made it easier for the actor to dive into the universe of Kuku in a few days time was the tight script co-written by Varun Grover, Smita Singh and Vasant Nath. Sacred Games star Kubra Sait with Nawazuddin Siddiqui. I had to work on my voice, so that it’s not very feminine but also not too masculine. Also, because she has a male private part, her stance will be wider than women.

As far as the lines and the delivery go, I knew she would be a man, so she would be a little more sturdy when she walks. I am a horrible dancer and that was the biggest challenge. “The only preparation that I had to do was to learn dancing. That left the actor with little time to prepare for the character, but enough to get some important things right.
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People who could not be mistrusted.” After three months of search for an actor to play Kuku, Kashyap and team zeroed in on Kubra, just 10 days before the series went on floors. Kubra Sait’s confidence and ease with frontal nudity also came from the fact that she was going to work with Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane.
