SARIKA RETURNS TO SCREEN
Was wasting my life waiting for good roles, says the actress
I HAVE TAKEN QUITE A FEW BREAKS, BUT THE THOUGHT WENT ONLY LAST TIME WHEN I TOOK A SABBATICAL, WHICH WAS IN 2016. I WAS JUST TIRED WAKING UP EVERYDAY, GOING TO SLEEP, WITHOUT GETTING A GOOD ROLE OR A GOOD SCRIPT
Veteran actor Sarika, who is returning to the screen after a gap of five years, says she took a break from movies as she was tired of waiting for good roles to come her way.
While she has routinely taken time off from the screen, Sarika’s first break came in 1986, when she and her former husband, actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan became parents. The actor returned to the screen in the mid 2000s with films like Bheja Fry, Manorama Six Feet Under, and Parzania for which she won the National Award for best actress. “I have taken quite a few breaks, but the thought went only last time when I took a sabbatical, which was in 2016. I was just tired waking up
everyday, going to sleep, without getting a good role or a good script. As actors, we just keep waiting. It just made me very angry at that point, not as an actor but as a person, wasting my life, just waiting for that,” Sarika, 61, said.
The actor said she could not stay away from the screen for too long and one phone call from filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava brought her back in front of the camera for the Mumbai chapter of the popular US original anthology series Modern Love.
“You have to make a conscious decision that you are not going to do this for sometime, only then can you do something else. Otherwise you will always be in two boats. I just thought I won’t do it for a year, so I went to the theatre, did backstage which was totally away from my zone. That turned out so good that now it’s five years,” she added.