New Delhi: Omung Kumar’s recent release ‘Sarbjit’ is getting cold response from the audience. The movie is a biopic, of an Indian farmer who wanders into Pakistan and is imprisoned in case of mistaken identity for over two decades.
The entire cast is quite happy over the response, the movie is getting. However, there is one person who isn’t much pleased with ‘Sarbjit’.
We are talking about Richa Chadha, who plays the role of Sarbjit’s wife in the movie.
As per the recent buzz, the actress is miffed with the way her role was chopped off during editing and she stated that that she will never do a supporting role.
“It’s not about the length of the role. It’s just that one works so hard on a film. It’s heartbreaking when some of your best scenes get sacrificed on the editing table. Some of my best scenes had to go. The one scene that I still have towards the end where I am shown bonding with Aishwarya’s character has no context since all my scenes showing my kinship with her are gone,” Richa told an entertainment portal.
She adds, “In an early sequence, Dalbir Kaur (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) after being physically abused by her husband and thrown out of the house, was shown being motivated by her sister-in-law Sukhpreet (Richa Chadha) to not take the abuse quietly. In a later sequence, Sukhpreet was shown doing a job as a sweeper and toilet cleaner after her husband’s disappearance to make ends meet. That sequence vividly showed my character’s financial and emotional humiliation in her husband’s absence. Unfortunately, it had to go. But I shouldn’t be complaining. Every actor except Randeep Hooda had to suffer the same fate in the film, and that includes Aishwarya.”
Richa even confessed that she isn’t the only one in the movie who has been the victim of sloppy editing.
“I am not saying I was singled out for role-chopping. All I am saying is that after so much work it’s frustrating to have just one scene for yourself. I don’t need to do this after Masaan and now Cabaret where I have the central role,” said Richa.
‘Sarbjit’ also featured Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Randeep Hooda and was released on May 20.
