Sara Ali Khan: 'The audience often thinks I'm a joker, it doesn't bother me at all because...'

Sara Ali Khan was seen in two back-to-back films, Murder Mubarak and Ae Watan Mere Watan. In an interview with Galatta India, the actress opened up on her persona and how the audiences think at times ‘she’s a joker’.

Sara said, “Because people think I’m funny because people think I’m silly or goofy, they think I can’t be more than that. And I actually am silly and goofy, it comes from an organic space. But then there’s also this flipside.”

She added, “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.”

In the same interview, the actress opened up on being questioned for her surname. She said, “I was born to a secular family, in a sovereign, secular, democratic republic. The spirit of standing up against what is wrong is within me. So, if I see it happening to not just me, but  anybody around me, I will stand up.”

The actress added, “My religious beliefs, my food choices, how I decide to go to the airport, that’s my decision, and I’ll never apologise for that.”

Sara in   Ae Watan Mere Watan was seen playing a strong character who stood for the freedom of India with a new approach. The trailer was proof that, it was going to be a film that would give this actress a shade of her education to relish in her profession. She was very keen on playing this part in the film as the story of the film is based on the Indian history that Sara has always been a student of.