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30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- News18
Fatima Sana Shaikh On Equation With Aamir Khan's Daughter Ira: ‘She Has A Big Heart'
Last Updated: Fatima Sana Shaikh shares that she turned to Ira Khan for therapy recommendations while looking for a therapist a few years ago. Fatima Sana Shaikh's deep bond with Ira Khan is no secret. Several pictures of them from the latter's wedding created waves on social media. Now, speaking exclusively to News18 Showsha, Fatima shares her admiration for Aamir Khan's daughter. When Fatima decided to seek therapy a few years ago, she reached out to Ira for help. 'I did ask Ira for recommendations when I wanted to seek therapy. I reached out to others too because I've a lot of friends who seek therapy," she tells us. Heaping praises on her, Fatima says, 'Ira is an incredible girl. She's very intelligent and talented. She has a very big heart and I just love her. She's a great girl. She's very giving." For the Dangal and Sam Bahadur actor, in fact, sisterhood is paramount. Her friendships with her co-stars Sanya Malhotra, Ratna Pathak Shah and Dia Mirza Rekhi aren't unheard of. 'These women have added so much to my life. I enjoy such relationships," she shares. Slamming the perception that two women actors don't get along, Fatima states, 'Yeh toh nonsense hai! Isme gender ka kuch lena dena hai hi nahi. It doesn't matter what your gender is. It all depends on how confident and self-assured you're as a person. If you're insecure, you're insecure. If you're insecure, you wouldn't enjoy working with any co-actor because you would constantly be fighting to create your own space." Fatima, who'll next be seen in Metro In Dino, reveals what drew her to her women peers and why she holds them close to her heart. 'I don't have any scenes with Neena (Gupta) ji and Koko (Konkona Sensharma. And with Sara (Ali Khan), I've just one scene. So, I can't say that I got to work with these women on Metro In Dino. But I've worked with Dia and Ratna on Dhak Dhak. Sanjana (Sanghi) was also there but I largely connected with the two of them," she remarks. She further continues, 'They're such strong women. They're opinionated people with a very evolved understanding of life and relationships. When you work with secure women – secure not necessarily in terms of their career but also in their personal lives – they've a lot to give. So, I really enjoyed working with them." However, the situation was quite different while she was growing up and she attributes it to her 'tomboy' nature. 'For the longest period of time, especially when I was younger, I've only had guy friends since I was a tomboy. But as I've grown older, I've started connecting with a lot of women. One woman I'm really close to is Shonali Bose [her director in Modern Love Mumbai's Raat Rani]. She's a fabulous filmmaker. If you follow her journey online, you'll realise that she has gone through so many things. But her zest for life is incredible. When she enters a room, she lights it up. I just love her," exclaims Fatima. First Published:
Scroll.in
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scroll.in
‘Sister Midnight' review: Radhika Apte is a blast as a rebellious housewife with a dark side
It's hard to decide what Uma hates more – marriage in itself, her husband in particular or all of humanity. Uma (Radhika Apte) arrives in Mumbai from her village as Gopal's bride, about as cheerful as a child who has been assigned homework during her summer vacation. The bangles rattling on the bus transporting Uma to the city sound like chains – one of the several sonic clues to Uma's fate in Karan Kandhari's Sister Midnight. Kandhari's debut feature, a deadpan comedy about repression and freedom, was completed in 2024 and has finally been released in India. Gopal (Ashok Pathak) is too stupefied by Uma's very presence in their one-room home to react adequately to her many provocations. Uma cooks badly, keeps house terribly and wanders off at will. Why can't you be like the others, Gopal plaintively says, scarcely realising that Uma has a feral side that is aching to be let out. The Hindi-language film's English title has been literally translated as Sakhi Ratri, but surely it should have been Raat Rani. For that is what Uma is – a flower of the night, wild and growing in all directions as she chafes at Mumbai's super-dense crush load and responds to her increasingly irrepressible impulses. The 107-minute film has a fabular quality, with stylised views of working-class Mumbai and an anachronistic soundtrack (by American singer-musician Paul Banks). While the fantastical element in Kandhari's screenplay is too generic to give a plausible sense of an Indian woman rebelling against social conventions, his particular staging and Radhika Apte's knockout performance pay rich dividends. Uma's tilt towards unfeminine, unruly and unacceptable behaviour unfolds within a controlled visual design and frontal framing by cinematographer Sverre Sordal. Only Uma's neighbour Sheetal (Chhaya Kadam) and a group of hijras understand her craving for liberation. Radhika Apte is a blast, wearing Uma's glumness like a superhero cape and wielding a cleaning mop like a witch's broom. Apte's sudden movements and flat voice work suggest a woman who isn't trying to fit into a mould as much as she is attempting to shatter it. Kandhari exploits Apte's talent for drollery to the hilt. You're a monster, Gopal says on the rare occasion when he manages to communicate with Uma. It's hard enough being a human, she grimly replies, every inch the domestic demoness. Play
