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Do you want me to walk out of this interview?
The Free Press Journal
|March 19, 2025
The Diplomat actress cries, shouts at us, and tells us about her journey—all within the space of a 30-minute video interview
Sadia Khateeb is riding high on her performance in the recently released John Abraham starrer The Diplomat. The political thriller, directed by Shivam Nair and written by Ritesh Shah, is set against the backdrop of Indo-Pak relations, with a deep dive into diplomacy and the personal conflicts faced by diplomats.
Sadia's debut film was Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Shikara (2020), after which she was seen in the Akshay Kumar starrer Raksha Bandhan (2022). In a sit-down video interview at our Free Press Journal studio, Sadia opened up about her journey, working with Chopra, and...crying in front of us within 5 seconds, as well as 'threatening' to walk out of the interview (You can see the video interview if you don't believe us). Excerpts:
Q. How did you go from Jammu to Bollywood?
This story is from the March 19, 2025 edition of The Free Press Journal.
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