Actor Sara Ali Khan said that she doesn’t need to go looking for a reality check, because her mother, actor Amrita Singh, brother Ibrahim Ali Khan, and her school friends are the ones who “constantly” show her the mirror. In an interview with Film Companion, Sara was asked about the grounding factors in her life, and if her mother is among those who help keep her head on her shoulders.
“Yes, I came back from Europe last year overweight, and she was like, ‘What are you doing? What is going on? They write good things about you, Tere vaste falak se main chaand launga but you are looking like the sky yourself! Where is the chaand?'” the actor joked. “There is no mincing words, not for my mother and brother, luckily for me not even my school friends. They are the people who constantly show me the mirror and never even allow me to fly, if that would be in my nature. They don’t indulge me at all,” she added.
Sara said she keeps herself grounded by not taking film industry perks “too seriously,” and credited Amrita Singh for being the “most grounding factor” in her life. “It is not even strange when people ask me this question, I don’t know how to respond to this when they say, ‘Oh you are so real.’ We don’t know any other way.” Sara has often spoken about her relationship with her body, and losing a drastic amount of weight before joining the film industry.
“It also comes from the experiences my mother had. She had been a working actor and now she doesn’t work as much. I know that my father (Saif Ali Khan) felt the way he was treated socially changed from Friday to Friday. It is more rewarding to have a permanent sense of who you are,” she added.
Sara Ali Khan had a packed March with two consecutive releases, Netflix’s Murder Mubarak and Prime Video’s biopic Ae Watan Mere Watan. Both the films, however, received poor reviews with Sara’s performances being panned.
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