Jason Shah says Sharmin Segal’s role in Heeramandi ‘could have intensified more’ but he feels ‘sorry’ for her

Sharmin Segal reportedly went through 16 rounds of auditions to land the role of Alamzeb in Heeramandi. To this Shah said that maybe “that’s what they were trying to get ultimately.” (Image via Instagram)

Actor Jason Shah who played the evil character of Cartwright in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’ recently revealed that he feels bad for the trolling his co-star Sharmin Segal has been receiving.

Shah also pondered whether her acting choice was something that Bhansali and Segal had decided prior to filming.

When asked about Segal’s performance in a recent interview, he said, “I think it shows that you can have the greatest director there… But, I wasn’t there so I don’t know what was spoken. As a director to actor, maybe that was what they were going for. I am not sure. I have heard a lot about this, honestly, I feel a bit sorry for her. In certain scenes to me it felt like something needs to happen, but it is a different kind of role… To be honest, to keep that one tone, whether it is me smacking her on the table or Tajdar dying, maybe that’s what they were going for.”

Sharmin Segal reportedly went through 16 rounds of auditions to land the role of Alamzeb in Heeramandi. To this Jason Shah said that maybe “that’s what they were trying to get ultimately.”

“I definitely felt that the character could have intensified a lot more, there could have been a lot of different ups and downs, and the graph could have been very different because you had the opportunity, the scope to do so much. But if that’s what they were going for and accomplished, great. If not, then it is what it is,” he added.

Previously, Bhansali defended his choice of casting Segal by saying, “Somebody who doesn’t want to be a tawaif, she doesn’t talk like a tawaif, she doesn’t walk like a tawaif. Her face had innocence, whereas all the others had lived life, they had survived manipulation and mental games. You needed somebody with a fresh, innocent quality to her… I felt that Sharmin was the right choice for Alam not because she’s my niece.”