Shakti Actress Jigyasa Singh Was ‘Apprehensive’ About Playing A Transgender, Reacts To Rumours Of Show Going Off Air

Shakti: Astitva Ke Ehsaas Ki is one show that has been going strong for years now. Recently, it saw major changes as lead actress Rubina Dilaik bid goodbye to the show and Jigyasa Singh, who plays her adopted daughter, joined the cast. The show would take a new course now, once the shoot resumes, but it must be a lot for Jigyasa to be able to live upto the expectations and bar that Rubina has set with her performance. The more challenging part is playing a transgender!

Well, Jigyasa addressed these issues in her recent interview with TOI, talking about playing a transgender; she revealed that she was actually apprehensive about it. She said, “Many people warned me against taking up the role of a transgender. They told me don't play such characters, you won't be shown beautiful, but somehow I never looked at it that way. I always wanted to play roles which are unique and give some social message to society. I knew about Shakti and about Rubina's character I just said yes immediately. There was no if's and but's for me. I just accepted it. Initially, I was a little apprehensive about how I will do it. But then again Rubina had already played this role and people had accepted her in the role. So, I was kind of comfortable accepting the offer. As of now, I haven't started playing transgender, I am shown as a normal girl. Even I am waiting how the story will unfold in the coming days.”

That’s not all, she also addressed rumours of the show going off air and said, “It feels worse when you get to hear that shows are going off-air so you feel sad. In fact, initially, we were also nervous as to what is going to happen. But we knew that Shakti is a big, popular and an old show so it will stay. Somewhere I knew that nothing would happen to our show. We all were constantly in touch with each other.”

The shoot of Shakti will be resuming soon and it would probably start by the end of this month itself!