If I take a break, I feel the need to go back to work: Jannat Zubair Rahmani

Jannat Zubair Rhemani began acting in 2008 as a child artiste with a TV show. In time, she matured into adult roles also doing stints in films. While she made the transition look easy, Jannat, 23, who was in Patiala to shoot for an OTT project, laughs, “There are days I feel I should retire, I’ve been working for so long.” She adds, “I feel like, I am done, I don't want to work anymore. I want to chill, relax, and go on a six-month vacation twice a year. But on the other side, if I took a break, I would also feel I did not work, and I need to go and work.”
Amid the Ramzan fasting, Jannat is balancing her work as a business owner of a fashion brand, and her acting projects. “Ramzan is always special, and iftar is typically a family affair amid lots of home cooked food,” she says. After her last TV serial Aap Ke Aa Jane Se in 2019, Jannat switched genres and did reality shows instead of daily soaps and participated in Khatra Khatra Khatra and Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 12. “I haven’t quit TV but there is so much else that I am doing, like running my own business, social media, films and now this OTT, that I can’t justify time for a daily show,” says the Phulwa actress.
Jannat, whose film debut in Punjabi, Kulche Chole in 2022 didn’t work according to expectations, is not attached to the outcome of her projects. “As actors we aim to give our 100% to every project and bring to the table the director’s vision. Whether it works well for us, or the audiences, or not, that is not our part,” she says adding, “So, even if the project doesn't work, I know for a fact that I did my best and my director knows that casting Jannat wasn't a mistake.”
Ask her about her late advent into OTT and she says, “The content being made on OTT is very different from what I am comfortable being a part of. It is unfair for me to refuse a certain scene in a project. The writer and director had a vision, that’s why the scene is there and whether it's necessary for the script or it's not, is not my place to say. I choose not to do that kind of a series instead of asking the director to remove the scene.”