Swara Bhaskar who has made a mark in Bollywood by playing unconventional characters in movies like Tanu Weds Manu and Raanjhanaa recently received a lot of flak for her open letter in support of Umar Khalid, the PhD student from Jawaharlal Nehru University, who was charged with sedition for raising anti-national slogans on campus. The open letter became a Twitter sensation. “I did not realise that it would mean falling out with my producers. I believe that I lost out on a National Award after I read something on those lines on an online portal where some sources confirmed the same, because of my take on the JNU sedition row. What could be worse?” says the JNU alumnus, further adding that she will be more careful about her timing but doesn’t regret having had her say in the matter.
