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Be it theatre, television or movies, Sadia Siddiqui has her own ways of adjusting to all three genres. According to Sadia who was in Chandigarh recently, "nobody can stop your growth within theatre, while TV is all about working for twelve hours with full dedication, and there is a scope to accelerate your graph in movies."

What's the major difference between the time when you started working in TV and now?
When I started my career long ago, that time all that was needed was talent and not beautiful faces only. But now the television industry is like a job where you go in the morning, do your respective works and come back by evening.

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Do you feel that TV has lesser scope for profound artists like you now?
Yeah that's true. That's why we do theatre because we love acting and there we get a lot of space, role and chance to showcase all our skills.

How was your experience working in the film City Lights?
I loved it and I wish that in future too something like that comes to me. I don't accept everything that comes my way; I usually wait for a good and decent role.

So, why did you accept the role in your upcoming TV show Satrangi Sasural?
It was because of two reasons. Firstly, Bhairavi Raichura, one of the producers of the show is a very good friend of mine. And secondly, I have been given the role of a classical dancer which I love in real life as well.

No saas bahu sagas for you?
No intelligent person wants to do the same thing again and again. There needs to be an innovation by taking risks. Its audiences somewhere that need to change because greater TRP is given to saas bahu daily soaps and other serials are somehow getting neglected.

Who gets a bigger challenge, the actor or the director?
I think the writer gets the biggest of them all. There was a time when I was doing Balika Vadhu and the writer of the show wanted the serial to come to an end but because of public demand he had to keep on writing it, which frustrated him a lot