MUMBAI:Sara Ali Khan will next be seen in Gaslight which is slated to release on Disney+ Hotstar on 31st March 2023. The movie is directed by Pavan Kirpalani, and it also stars Vikrant Massey and Chitrangada Singh in the lead roles.

TellyChakkar recently interacted with Sara and spoke to her about the movie, if she has faced gaslighting in real life, and more...

Was it a deliberate choice to do a movie like Gaslight, so that the audience can get to see you in a different light?

I honestly feel that it’s an actor’s work to do different kinds of films rather than being typecast. So, I am very lucky that Pavan (Kirpalani) sir thought that I would be able to play a role like this, and Akshai (Puri) sir and Ramesh (Taurani) sir reached out to me for a film like this. I was just very excited and happy to be able to do something new and different.

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Have you ever faced gaslighting in real life?

I think it’s very important to understand that the thing with gaslighting is that it’s not a very obvious thing, it’s a subliminal psychological thing which a lot of times is understood in retrospect as ‘oh maybe I was gaslighted’. I don’t even really know if it has happened or it hasn’t happened to me. All I know is that as a person I am very self-critical, I am quite harsh on myself. So, for me it is better that I don’t come to know because I am also a strong girl. But, Meesha’s character, she is very fragile and vulnerable, she has trust issues, and she doesn’t come from a loved family. So, she comes from a place where any kind of gaslighting is very harmful and despite that she is just exuding constant strength and determination.

In Gaslight, you play a role where you are searching for your father, and later trying to solve the mystery of his murder. So, was it emotionally difficult to portray the role as you have a parent at home but here there’s something else?

I think as an actor I am also figuring myself out. It’s been a couple of films now, and I thought I would rely on the method more than I do. I just try to fully believe and portray what my character would be feeling. Till my first four films, it was okay, but when I started shooting Atrangi Re, I realized that I don’t have the life to be able to substitute here. I don’t know what it’s like to have an imaginary boyfriend, I don’t know what it’s like to have a dead parent; I don’t know these things. So, in the future, if I have to play a killer, if I have to play a disabled person, then how will I do it? So, I think the power of imagination has become hopefully stronger; imagination is important, but disturbing yourself by pretending that your real father is dead, I am not like that.

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