Honoured to be part of ‘Metro... In Dino’: Sara Ali Khan

Sara Ali Khan called working in Metro... In Dino surreal, having grown up watching Anurag Basu’s films. She said the project felt less pressured, as the responsibility was shared by the entire ensemble.

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Sara Ali Khan on Wednesday said she grew up watching filmmaker Anurag Basu’s movies and that is why it was surreal for her to be a part of the director's latest, “Metro... In Dino”. An anthology of four stories of contemporary couples, the movie is a followup to Basu’s critically-acclaimed 2007 movie Life in a... Metro. As an actor, Sara said she has never felt less pressure for a project but with Metro... In Dino, she knew that the responsibility would be shouldered by everyone involved in the film.

"I have never felt less pressure. I just think that there are moments where I can't even believe that I'm here. I am just so honoured and privileged to be on a stage right now with like seven actors that I admire, with Anurag and Bhushan sir, in a film like this."It's just amazing. It's surreal to me to just be a part of it. So, I don’t think that the pressure would be mine at all actually,” the actor told reporters. In the movie, Sara will feature alongside Aditya Roy Kapur, Ali Fazal, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Konkona Sen Sharma, Pankaj Tripathi, Neena Gupta and Anupam Kher.The four stories of the movie are set in four main metro cities - Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Bengaluru. The "Sky Force” actor said she was new to Basu's style of filmmaking and that’s why she relied on costar Aditya, who had earlier starred in the director's 2020 anthology “Ludo”."I had a lot of fun. I've grown up watching Basu da’s films and I think that just being given an opportunity to be part of it was just amazing. Basu da has a way of working that I have never really seen before. Adi, having worked with Basu da before, it was like a nice bridge kind of a thing because they knew each other and they knew how to work. I instantly felt very comfortable," she said.Besides Aditya, Fatima, who also featured in "Ludo", helped Sara on the sets."They both were like, ‘This is it, this is how it’s going to be. Just go with the flow.’ So, I think that it was definitely helpful,” she said.