*MUMBAI: The Kashmiri origin actress, Zaira Wasim, announced on Sunday toquit Bollywood, saying ‘This field indeed brought a lot of love, support,and applause my way, but what it also did was to lead me to a path ofignorance, as I silently and unconsciously transitioned out of imaan[faith].”*
In her message on Facebook, Ms Wasim said, “This field indeed brought a lotof love, support, and applause my way, but what it also did was to lead meto a path of ignorance, as I silently and unconsciously transitioned out ofimaan.”
She added, “As I complete 5 years today, I want to confess that I am nottruly happy with this identity i.e my line of work. For a very long timenow it has felt like I have struggled to become someone else. As I had juststarted to explore and make sense of the things to which I dedicated mytime, efforts and emotions and tried to grab hold of a new lifestyle, itwas only for me to realise that though I may fit here perfectly, I do notbelong here.”
“While I continued to work in an environment that consistently interferedwith my imaan, my relationship with my religion was threatened.”
“As I continued to ignorantly pass through while I kept trying to convincemyself that what I was doing is okay and isn’t really affecting me, I lostall the Barakah from my life. Barakat is word whose meaning isn’t justconfined to happiness, quantity or blessing, it also focuses on the idea ofstability, which is something I struggled with extensively.”
“I kept trying to escape but somehow I always ended up hitting a dead end,in an endless loop with a missing element that kept torturing me with alonging I was neither able to make sense of nor satisfy.”
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The actress further announced, “This journey has been exhausting, to battlemy soul for so long. Life is too short yet too long to be at war withoneself. Therefore, today I arrive at this well-grounded decision and Iofficially declare my disassociation with this field.”
The 18-year-old gained popularity from Bollywood’s famous flicks ‘Dangal’and ‘Secret Superstar’. Wasim has also completed shooting for her upcomingand last flick “The Sky is Pink” which is scheduled to hit theatres onOctober 11 this year.
Zaira Wasim had bagged 2016’s National Film Award for Best SupportingActress over her acting skills in ‘Dangal’ and 2018’s Filmfare CriticsAward for Best Actress for ‘Secret Superstar’.
