Sharmin Segal Clarifies Why She Was Laughing In Heeramandi 'Rejection' Scene: 'It Was Dark Humour'

Sharmin Segal was brutally trolled after Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar was released in May this year. A section of netizens were highly disappointed with her performance in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s directorial. Netizens had also questioned Sharmin for smiling in a scene where her character Alamzeb was rejected by her love, Tajdar (essayed by Taha Shah).

In a recent interview, Sharmin opened up about the scene and explained that she was smiling because it was “dark humour”. The actress mentioned Alamzeb was laughing at herself in that scene because she left her home for a man who refused to accept her reality.

“‘Oh, is it because I smile in that scene?’ For me, Alamzeb was laughing at herself because she ran away from her house for that. It was like a sad joke one cracks on themselves. It was dark humour in my mind,” Sharmin told India Today.

“Alamzeb’s eyes are welled up, she is sad. It’s very different. I am not blaming the medium but everyone watched it on a smaller screen, hence [missed out on details]. Her eyes are welled up, moist, and there is a smile on her face because of the situation, it’s like smiling at your misfortune,” the actress continued.

Sharmin further explained that Alamzeb was smiling at her “misfortune” and not because she was rejected by her lover. “Humans have different ways of reacting to different things. Sometimes, when you’re in the dumps, you end up laughing at yourself because you’re like, ‘How did I get here?’ Most people always associate a smile with something happy, but smiles come out in the weirdest situations, and it usually comes out when you’re trying to mask another emotion. I just interpreted it as her laughing at herself or smiling at her misfortune. So, that’s how I interpreted that scene, and I hope it’s clarified now,” she said.

Previously, Sharmin was also speaking exclusively to News18 Showsha when she opened up about the trolling and said, “I had given my all to Alamzeb’s character. We tend to fixate on the negatives but there are so many positives that have also come along, which we don’t talk about. It’s perhaps not interesting enough to talk about positives and we tend to look over them to some degree.”

Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar is currently streaming on Netflix.