Nimrat Kaur: If I miss a project, I believe there’s a greater plan

Returning to Hindi cinema after five years with Dasvi, Nimrat Kaur on being unfazed about losing films as she juggles international and Bollywood career.

Nimrat Kaur

With Dasvi that also stars Abhishek Bachchan and Yami Gautam, Nimrat Kaur returns to a Hindi movie set after five years. It’s a shame we don’t see the actor — a delight on screen - in Hindi cinema more often. “I didn’t realise it’s been five years. Time just flew by. After Airlift [2016], I did two international series and one here. It’s been a while since I faced a camera for a movie,” says Kaur.

Nimrat Kaur will now be seen in Dasvi

When we last spoke to her, she was filming Homeland in Casablanca. The actor shone in the final season of the Emmy Award-winning show as Pakistani agent Tasneem Qureshi. Have her standards been set high after the Claire Danes-led series, making her picky about roles? “My gaps in work are unintentional. Sometimes, projects take far too long to come together. Shooting a long-format series like Homeland was a year-long assignment, from February to October 2019. The Test Case was also a long-term project. The stop-gap arrangement is fast getting rectified by the sheer velocity of work. I am not picky, but experimental. The Test Case was an experiment; I did it when web shows weren’t booming [in India]. The desire is to be versatile.”

Nimrat Kaur who starred in Homeland

But with flourishing careers in two industries, she is bound to miss out on work due to date clashes. The actor isn’t perturbed as she says, “I operate from a place of gratitude. As I start Dasvi, I am not wondering what I will lose out on in the US. I am engaging in conversations with suits [of production houses] abroad. As an artiste, I am privileged that I can do diverse work and cater to different sets of audiences. Eventually, if I miss a project, I believe there’s a greater plan.” 

While Agent Qureshi’s story reached its resolution in Homeland, one would have assumed that Kaur would reprise her role as Captain Shikha Sharma in the second season of The Test Case. She clarifies, “My journey ended with the first season. I have nothing more to do in that show than what I have offered.”