Adhyayan Suman advises Sharmin Segal to ‘accept reality' and not 'lie to herself' amid Heeramandi row

Sharmin Segal

faced a lot of flak for her performance in

Sanjay Leela Bhansali

helmed 'Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar'. The actress, who essayed one of the leading roles, was targeted for lack of emotions and expressions. Sharmin being the niece of director SLB, stirred the

nepotism debate

and further fueled the trolling.
Weighing in on the controversy, Adhyayan shared a word of advice for his co-star and told Bollywood Hungama, "I think it’s very important to not live in a bubble.

It’s very important to accept any sort of reality, not just Heeramandi, per se. It’s very important to understand who you are, it’s very important to understand whether you have it in you to fight the next 15-20 years. It’s important for you to not lie to yourself.”
Adhyayan further gave his own example and stated that he worked on himself after being written off by the industry. He advised Sharmin to speak to people and expressed that the audience may give her another chance.
Recently Sharmin had broken her silence over the trolling and told News18, "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 a period web series, set in the 1940s. It stars Manisha Koirala, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Richa Chadha, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Sharmin Segal Mehta and Taha Shah Badussha. The makers recently announced a sequel to the saga, and Bhansali had shared that ‘Heeramandi 2' will see the women transitioning from Lahore to the film world. He had told Variety, "They leave Lahore after the partition and most of them settle in the Mumbai film industry or Kolkata film industry. So that journey in the bazaar remains the same. They still have to dance and sing, but this time for the producers and not for the nawabs. So that's the second season we are planning, let's see where it goes.”