Ayesha Kapur

Acting is definitely a passion of mine- i feel it through my veins and things like feeling the emotion and the character comes naturally to me. I believe that we all act, like Shakespeare said “all of life is a stage”. He’s absolutely right- everywhere you look, people are acting happy, acting sad… You see little kids acting cute to the people around them. What true actors need to do is simply use that trait that all humans have (of course some have it more strong and others less) for whatever character they may be playing. For example, what I do is this. When I get into a character (let’s say Nasreen- in Sikandar), and I need to play a sad scene- I just close my eyes and try to feel a time when I was extremely sad in life- or something that would make me sad, and just allow that emotion come across in my face. And then I’m not me anymore- it’s not Ayesha who is feeling sad anymore- it’s Nasreen. All I need to do then is follow the script. And I just love it. I love acting! I definitely want to carry on acting- it’s like this, once you start you can never stop. At least for me

I can’t wait for Sikandar to release! I have not yet seen the film- I’m waiting to see it at the premiere. I did exactly the same with Black. I remember when Black released, all my friends- all of Auroville, actually, came to see it. Now when Sikandar is releasing, I’m going to invite all my friends, family, teachers to come see it in Pondicherry. It’s going to be great!!!

A heart is heavy,

With all it has to carry,

A thousand words,

A thousand tears

At first the tears drizzled,

You fought me to be free,

But what you didn’t realize,

Is that I saw what I had to see

Alone, I was stranded,

On a bridge that didn’t give choice,

All rejoice was ended,

And my heart was far from mended

I love to travel, and I have been to so many places by now I don’t think I will be able to count them all. Every year, my family travels to different places of the world. I’ve been to the Andaman Islands, to Brazil, Egypt, South Africa, America… I’ve seen wild elephants and swam around tiny beautiful islands. I’ve been in three of the world’s biggest cities: New York, London and Tokyo. But before Sikandar, I had never been to Kashmir. Sure, I had heard loads about it- my father spoke many times of the beautiful mountains and the rivers. He would say “It’s the world’s most beautiful place.” And after shooting for Sikandar, I found myself feeling the same. And to tell you the truth, one of the main reasons (apart from me loving the script and the character) that I decided I should definitely do this was when I heard of where the film would be shot.

But what made shooting for Sikandar so great was not only the beauty of the locations, but also because of the friendships we all made there. We all became rather like one big family- all away from our real families. Piyush sort of became like my Papa, and Parzaan like my brother. Everybody worked their absolute hardest for Sikandar.