Sara Ali Khan Says A Loud joke Won't Make Up For A Bad Performance: 'I Realised It’s A Waste...'

Sara Ali Khan recently talked about how people made fun of her for being ‘loud’ in public. She said she felt like she had to compensate for criticism about her acting. She also mentioned comments about how believable her middle-class character was in a movie she was in. In an interview with Galatta Plus, Sara shared that she gets upset about criticism of her acting but doesn’t let comments about her personality or natural behaviour bother her too much. However, she admitted that sometimes her “entertaining persona” can go against her.

Sara explained that while her family and friends know she can be serious and funny, she feels the audience might only see her as a jokester. However, she’s not bothered by criticism of her personality. She said that the audience can think, ‘Yeh toh joker hai’, adding, “That doesn’t bother me at all. The work of mine that’s in the public domain is the filmmaking, so if I’m not hitting the right note as an actor, as a dancer, or in a performance at an award function, and if people don’t like it, then I’ll feel bad. But how I am as a person is my business unless I’m trying to marry one of these people, which I’m not. My personality has always been too atrangi from anybody’s, so I’ve become used to this bachh ke raho hat ke raho behaviour in my life.”

When asked if she ever felt the need to try too hard in public, Sara said that she used to think it was important for everyone to like her. “I realised it’s a waste of energy because people are very smart. They will understand the difference between a good joke, a good Instagram picture, a hot photoshoot, and a good performance. Forgive yourself if you’ve done work that you’re not proud of, and don’t try to convince yourself into thinking that a loud joke will make up for a bad performance, it won’t,” she said.