SWARA WAS REJECTED BY A DIRECTOR FOR ‘LOOKING INTELLIGENT’
Appearance plays a crucial role in cinema, and actor Swara Bhasker says that in the initial days of her career, she was rejected for looking “too intelligent”.
The star of films such as Nil Battey Sannata (2015), Anaarkali of Aarah (2017), and this year’s Veere Di Wedding says, “I think everyone who comes to the industry has to face certain kinds of rejection for how they look. Otherwise, people wouldn’t be spending so much on their makeup.
“All this is a reflection of a person’s mindset. The first meeting I had when I came to Bombay, a director rejected me, saying, ‘You look too intelligent.’ I’ve still not understood what that meant.” Swara adds that it’s best to ignore such things and focus on work.
The actor says that today the digital platform has become an alternative medium for actors in terms of creativity. “The new content that’s available today on different platforms is thought-provoking and it doesn’t have to be lived by any formula,” she says.
“I’m a very idealistic person,” adds the 30-yearold actor, “and I believe that art, especially the visual medium, has huge potential for transformation. It’s something that goes through your eyes, directly to your heart and it can [greatly] affect you.”
For Swara, it’s important to be associated with good content, a rule she has tried to live by in her career. She recently finished the second season of a web series and has another web series in her kitty.