Six years after making her Bollywood debut with the Anushka Sharma-starrer Phillauri, Mehreen Pirzada returned to Hindi leisure with the Milan Luthria-directed Sultan of Delhi. Tailored from the novel Sultan of Delhi: Ascension, the interval crime thriller showcases Pirzada because the younger girl, Sanjana, who’s portrayed as a naive and fragile soul deeply invested in love. Because the story unfolds, she experiences a profound sense of betrayal that shatters her world. Sharing her pleasure of working with filmmaker Luthria on her debut OTT venture, she says, “I grew to become a fan after watching As soon as Upon a Time in Mumbaai [2010] and The Soiled Image [2011]. I cherished the period, the songs, the retro look, and the snazzy dialogues. I manifested working with him some day. I used to be excited to fulfill him and tackle the position of Sanjana when he advised me about her.”
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Pirzada shares that she “cherished the character and storyline” of the gangster drama, and the chance to be taught from the ensemble forged—Tahir Raj Bhasin, Mouni Roy, Vinay Pathak, Anupriya Goenka, and Harleen Sethi—was not one to overlook. Breaking down her character within the Disney+ Hotstar collection, she says, “Sanjana longs to kind actual connections. Her psychological and emotional turmoil is a results of her personal doings, however the arc was so attention-grabbing to play. She suffers marital rape, and it was a topic I needed to painting to set off a dialogue.” Whereas the scene did spark a dialog, Pirzada shares {that a} sure part of the media and viewers trivialised the trauma by calling it a “intercourse scene”. She not too long ago took to X (previously generally known as Twitter) and wrote, “This trivialises one thing that may be a severe difficulty that many ladies on this planet are at the moment coping with. Individuals ought to perceive that they’ve sisters and daughters too. I pray to God they by no means need to undergo such trauma in their very own lives, because the considered such brutality and violence towards girls is repugnant.”