Jigyasa Singh On Everyone Warning Her Against Taking the Role of Transgender in 'Shakti...'

Colors' Shakti... Astitva Ke Ehsaas Kii has been through an immensely successful journey so far, where the show completed four years of runtime recently. Not many would have thought or expected a show surrounding the life of a transgender will make it to mainstream commercial TV and do wonders.

After Rubina Dilaik's departure from the show, actor Jigyasa Singh took over as the lead and ever since then, the show has continued to do well and in fact even brought a freshness leading to increasing numbers.

Recently in an interview with ETimes, Singh revealed how everyone told her against taking up the role as she might not be shown 'beautiful' in the show. Playing Heer, the actor opened on the same saying, "Many people warned me against taking up the role of a transgender. They told me don't play such characters, you won't be shown beautiful, but somehow I never looked at it that way. I always wanted to play roles which are unique and give some social message to society. I knew about Shakti and about Rubina's character I just said immediately. There was no if's and but's for me. I just accepted it. Initially, I was a little apprehensive about how I will do it. But then again Rubina had already played this role and people had accepted her in the role. So, I was kind of comfortable accepting the offer. As of now, I haven't started playing transgender, I am shown as a normal girl. Even I am waiting how the story will unfold in the coming days."

In these times of lockdown, Singh mentioned how she has been in constant touch with her cast and crew as she said, "Very frankly. I am feeling bad for the technicians and workers. These people are daily wage workers and so I was feeling bad for them. It feels worse when you get to hear that shows are going off-air so you feel sad. In fact, initially, we were also nervous as to what is going to happen. But we knew that Shakti is a big, popular and an old show so it will stay. Somewhere I knew that nothing would happen to our show. We all were constantly in touch with each other."

About the recent guidelines, she said, "The pandemic has hit the entertainment industry in a big way because of the lockdown nobody is able to do anything rather than just staying positive. I am staying with my family and they are very scared for me and they keep telling me whenever you start shooting please take all the necessary precautions. And I guess our government is doing a lot for our safety. I also feel we all are on our own now and we will have to take care of our own. We have to adapt to the new shooting norms like maintaining hygiene on the sets, sanitisation, maintaining social distancing which is going to be so difficult while shooting scenes. But I am going to follow everything because the pandemic is spreading like wildfire."

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