Zaira Wasim
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[[File: Zaira Wasim in Tata Sky’s short film.jpg| In 2015, Zaira Wasim, then 15 debuted in Tata Sky’s 15 minute feature film, shot in Gulmarg, with an 11-second role (8.46-8.56) as the heroine’s younger sister.|frame|500px]] | [[File: Zaira Wasim in Tata Sky’s short film.jpg| In 2015, Zaira Wasim, then 15 debuted in Tata Sky’s 15 minute feature film, shot in Gulmarg, with an 11-second role (8.46-8.56) as the heroine’s younger sister.|frame|500px]] | ||
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Zaira Wasim is…
Zaira Wasim is a schoolgirl from Srinagar, Kashmir, who played the teenaged years of the female lead of the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Hindi-Urdu film Dangal (2016).
Bio-data
Born: 23 October, 2000, in Srinagar
Height in 2016: 5' 1" (1.55 m)
School: St. Paul's International Academy, Sonwar, Srinagar
Zaira was studying in classes 9 and 10 when the film Dangal was shot
Father- Zahid Wasim (executive manager of Jammu and Kashmir Bank)
Brother- Zoraiz Wasim
Modelling
Zaira acted in Microsoft Lumia and Tata Sky advertisements in 2015.
The Dangal experience
Competing with a thousand girls, Zaira never thought she would ever get a chance to land a role in the film. But luck was on her side, as she bagged the role of wrestler Geeta Phogat and got the chance to share screen space with Aamir. She completed shooting in Mumbai in six months.
Zaira’s training included exhaustive morning sessions of running, swimming and wrestling. The training made her learn to overcome anxieties.
“Before ‘Dangal’, I had done two ads. I got a call from Mukesh Chabra (the film’s casting director) to attend an important workshop for a week. I went to Mumbai to attend the workshop. There were a lot of girls who had already done one or more ads or serials and I had to do some scenes in front of them; so, I was like ‘there is no space for me’,” she said.
Like other parents, Zaira too had to convince her parents to support her decision to act in the film, more so being from Kashmir.
“It was my school principal and my aunt who supported my decision. They both convinced my parents and handled the situation very well,” Zaira said.
As the word of her shooting for the film spread, some netizens began trolling and bullying her and also issued self-styled life threats.
“Some nasty comments about me were posted on social media. But Aamir Khan and the rest of the crew helped me. I am still getting comments from unknown persons, but I believe in positivity and have learned how to deal with such comments,” she said.
Filmography
As an actor
2016 Dangal
2017 Secret Superstar
