Happy Birthday Swara Bhasker: There's An Honesty About Her That Is Fluently Reflected On Screen

Swara Bhasker turns 33 today, and on this occasion, here's looking at some special things about the beautiful actress

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Happy Birthday Swara Bhasker: There's An Honesty About Her That Is Fluently Reflected On Screen
It is perhaps no coincidence that two of my favourite people from the Hindi film industry Jaya Bachchan and Swara  Bhaskar are born on the same day.  Of course, I’ve known Swara for a   much shorter time… for obvious reasons! But in a very short span of time, we’ve come to share a mutual warmth and respect for each other’s work and space, which I find to be a refreshing change from some of the clingy friendships from the past which have gone kaput because of excessive exuberance.

My equation with Swara is just right. It is nurturing and healthy. I first saw Swara  on screen in my dear friend Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish where she had a walk-on part  as a  television anchor. Nothing there gave  us any inkling  of what was to come. Such  unvarnished  naturalistic  performances in  Tanu Weds Manu, Nil Battey Sannatta and specially Anaarkali  Of Arrah.

There is honesty about  Swara easily comfortably and fluently reflected on screen.  In recent times she has become a  vocal opponent of vote politics and the politics of oppression. And if this means losing out on roles, so be it.

Swara celebrated her birthday two years ago in 2019  with us at our home in Patna. Who  was to know that her next two birthdays would be  “celebrated” in quarantine?

On April 9,2019 Swara was  in Bihar to canvas for  her favourite candidate   Kanhaiya Kumar. She drove down to his  constituency in Begusarai on  April 8 and drove back early in  the morning to come home in April to spend a  couple  of hours with us before flying back to Mumbai. We had  ordered a cake for her and  we had a little party for her. Swara looked  happy and at home. She is that kind of a girl. No fuss. No frills.   She promised to come back soon  again.

Life has changed so much since then. I wonder  when  things would be like before. This is Swara’s second birthday  since the  Virus. She  is  missing her  friends on this her special day. Hopefully  next year she can have them all  over for  her birthday.

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