My character could have been improved in Heeramandi: believes Jason Shah
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Popular actor Jason Shah, who played Alastair Cartwright in Heeramandi: 'The Diamond Bazaar,' lately appeared in "Inside The Mind With Rushabh" podcast and revealed some interesting anecdotes about the filmmaking, claiming that the film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali did not helm most of scenes as he was a little bit relying on the team, also saying consciously: “I feel my character in the film could have been fleshed out much better it was.”
‘He wasn’t directing that much’
Jason stated that because it was Sanjay’s first time making a web series, the director had a lot on his plate and was relying on his team to film some of the scenes with actors other than the core cast. He said, “I think web (series) and film are a little bit different because web is very stretched; you have a lot of episodes to make. It took him two-and-a-half years to make this. He also wasn’t directing that much; I had other directors with me. I felt like we could’ve worked on it (his character) a little bit more. A lot more colour could’ve come out; it had the capacity.”
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He also claimed that his character, who was one of the series’ major villains, could’ve been fleshed out much better than it was. Jason added that he didn’t want to point this out much because he didn’t want to be labelled a ‘problem-maker’.
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He said, “I’ve played a lot of these British officers, I’ve sat on sets where there’s a lot of talk about history. There are some places where I felt my character could’ve made strong choices. Look at Ben Kingsley’s Gandhi there they show how far racism can go. I said enough; I would’ve become a problem-maker if I said more.”
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