‘Sometimes you can sleepwalk through a role on TV’

Lubna Salim���s excited. The actress, who is popular as Leela Bhabhi in the serial Baa Bahu aur Baby, was recently nominated in the best actress category at an awards function recently. ���
This was the first time I was nominated for the best actress award. Earlier it always used to be in the supporting actress category. I feel thrilled that finally after so many years in the industry, people have recognised me as a lead actress.���
Lubna recently donned a new role ��� that of a producer and actor in her play Lakeerein, based on a collection of stories and poems of renowned litterateur Gulzar on the theme of Indo-Pak relations.However, in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks and the present Indo-Pak situation, the play has been re-worked in the light of the present Indo-Pak situation to reflect the changing times. ���Lakeerein is about life on the border. People living there are bound by common threads.���
Ask her what inspired her to produce Gulzar���s play and she says, ���My relationship with Gulzarsaab goes back a long way. My father Javed Siddiqui���s a writer and my husband Salim Arif have been closely associated with Gulzarsaab through his films.��� Inspite of doing television, Lubna finds time to do theatre as well. ���I'm lucky that my shooting schedules take not more than 15 to 20 days in a month. The rest I devote to theatre,��� she says. ���Sometimes there���s nothing new happening on TV and one tends to get stagnated and needs to move on. Sometimes you feel that you can sleepwalk through a role and that���s the time one needs to do something different. Theatre provides that breather for me,��� says Lubna