Fatima Sana Shaikh has earned a lot of love and appreciation for her performance in amazon prime As ‘Lali’ in the compilation series of videos, Modern Love Mumbai ‘Raat Rani’. The actress is currently busy shooting for her upcoming films and amidst all her packed-up schedule, she took out time to open up about her struggles with epilepsy.
In an interview with Hindustan Times, the Dangal actress recalled barely escaping death after going through five sets of epileptic seizures. She shared, “It put my work and life on hold. It was a big shock to me, I really felt lucky to have survived. I’ve had major episodes in the past, but this one was the hardest because I was all alone. Now I can’t travel alone, I need someone with me.”
He further added, “I have not hidden it, but never got the chance. It took me some time to understand what it was. There is a lot of stigma attached. You think you have a disease. I didn’t want people to think I was weak. I was afraid that if I told people that I had it, I would not get the job. I didn’t even want to admit that I had a neurological condition.”
Talking about the time when her makers had to cancel a two-day shoot for Meghna Gulzar’s Sam Bahadur due to her condition, Fatima shared, “I realized as a person who is going through , it is my responsibility to tell my producers that you have a person who has this condition. I have been having seizures on the sets and people have taken care of it. I give them a certain protocol to follow.”
The actress also revealed, “People in rural areas think that drugs have been done, Devi has gone. People don’t get married because people don’t know about it. They cannot work, because you become a liability. That’s why I was not talking much about it and not telling anyone about it.”
Recalling the time when she experienced a crew member having an epileptic seizure in one of her earlier films, the Modern Love actress said, “I have never seen anyone having a seizure. It was scary for me to watch. It was emotional too, as I thought, this is what I look like, this is what happens to me. And it is unfair to say that people do not understand. I didn’t understand it until I found this. So I thought it was right to talk about it and we should talk more about it.”
On the work front, Fatima will be seen in ‘Dhak Dhak’ directed and co-written by Tarun Dudeja and co-produced by Taapsee Pannu, Pranjal Khandia and Aayush Maheshwari. She also has ‘Sam Bahadur’ in which she will be seen alongside Vicky Kaushal and Sanya Malhotra.
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