Sara Ali Khan says she forgot ‘when to use her brain’ as her movie choices became ‘cerebral’: ‘I started feeling very empty’

Sara Ali Khan said that the audience saw right through her when she she started making her decisions cerebrally, and stopped relying on her gut.

Sara Ali Khan was recently seen in Murder Mubarak and Ae Watan Mere Watan. (Photo: Sara Ali Khan/Instagram)

Sara Ali Khan, who has been promoting her films Ae Watan Mere Watan and Murder Mubarak, recently spoke about her unfiltered avatar. Sara’s first appearance in front of the camera was with her father Saif Ali Khan in an episode of Koffee with Karan, and she left a positive impression on the public even before her acting debut. As time went on, Sara’s image on her social media stood in stark contrast to her film choices, and it was evident that both her personas were clashing with each other.

In a chat with Film Companion, Sara said that since people saw her “unadulterated” version very early in her career, they were confused by her changing image on social media and her interviews. Sara admitted that she let herself down.

“People saw through me when I was trying to do something that didn’t come necessarily from the heart. Because then, you are leaving yourself open to comparison. Because I have given the audience, the media, just people in general, a very unadulterated, a very honest version of myself, very early in my career,’ she said and added, “I started feeling very empty. I started feeling very let down by myself.”

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Sara said that she believed her decision-making was always very “visceral” but it had slowly started becoming “cerebral.” She said, “And I realised that that was not working for me for starters. So when you ask me, how do you filter the noise? I don’t know, but I know that when you are inauthentic, your body signals it to you.”

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Sara made her debut in 2018 with Kedarnath and she said that while she was completely forthright at the time, things changed a bit after the film. “The opinions stopped being the mirror of the gut and they started being the reflection of the brain, and I don’t want that all the time. You have to know when to use your brain, which is something I forgot, because I was reliant on the brain constantly that it started replacing the lack of a gut, which can’t happen,” she said.

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