Jason Shah Makes SHOCKING Revelations About Shooting For Heeramandi: 'Would Be The last One For My Closes'

Jason Shah recently made shocking revelations about the working environment in Heeramandi sets. The actor who played the menacing Cartwright in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s debut streaming series shared that he couldn’t settle in with the shooting schedules and wished he had more time with the directors to discuss his scenes.

In an interview with Bollywood Now, Jason revealed that he got to work for three days and then was off for weeks on end. He shared that it didn’t help him enhance his performance, and the situation only worsened because of lack of clarity in vision. “I thought at first that (Cartwright) was a very straight-line kind of character, he’s coming in and whacking everyone, because that’s all that I’m reading. I didn’t read the entire screenplay, which, maybe if I’d got the chance to do that, I’d have seen Cartwright in a different light.”

He further added, “It wasn’t a continuous shoot. It was quite broken up. I would work for three days and not be on set for three weeks, and then come back again. In my mind, I was jostled. I wasn’t settling in. And what happens is that over an extended period of time working with a team, the different nuances of that day start to affect your character.”

Jason also added that there were times during his shoot, where he would show up on set but was clueless about his part. “They would know what the scene was, but I wouldn’t even know who the actresses were. At one stage, I thought one of the actresses — I won’t give her name — I thought she was an AD. And then she came dressed up, ready for the scene. But no one introduced me. So, I don’t know who’s on set!”

On a closing note, the actor confessed that his ‘preparation was a little bit less’ on the show. “There were a lot of days when I’d be shooting at the end. We would do a lot of closes, and most of the time, I would be the last one for my closes. It’s not that I’m trying to be the victim here, but I was told things like, ‘Jason, you have 45 minutes’. So, I’ve done some massive scenes in a very short amount of time,” he added.

Jason Shah’s Heeramandi is currently streaming on Netflix.