Vijay Varma recalls going ‘blank’ during a crucial night shoot scene on Dahaad set: ‘Main atka tha abhi’; why memory lapses happen | Health News

Vijay Varma recently opened up about an incident on the sets of Sonakshi Sinha-led OTT series Dahaad where he kept forgetting his lines for close to three hours during a night shoot.
“Main atka tha abhi. (I was stuck recently). The recent memory I have is from Dahaad where I went blank. Everyone was there. It was a night scene with four cameras rolling. It’s a big moment in the series. Uss raat me na mere se dialogue nikal rahe theek se (I was neither able to say the dialogues properly), or I am fumbling or getting blank. I struggled with it for three hours. Just could not achieve it. People were getting anxious,” recalled Varma.
What he did next was unanticipated. “I started laughing,” shared Varma, adding, “Whenever I was fumbling, I laughed. I said, what to do, it wasn’t happening. Aaj nahi nikal raha hai. We had shot for 70 days and this was the first incident there.”
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Stressing that he “didn’t want to beat myself for it,” the actor continued: “I wasn’t even apologising to everybody that I am fumbling because I feel that an actor is not a machine. Emotions need to be generated. It could very well be that something may not work out at one point. It’s a human condition. Actors have to allow themselves to fail in front of the camera. It’s okay.”
He further shared that he told the director that he was there in the scene emotionally but “not able to say the lines properly”. “Trust me, if the emotions are correct, I will look after it during dubbing. I told him so. I dubbed the entire scene. You wouldn’t even find it out,” Varma said during a conversation with Sunny Hinduja.
Taking a cue from this incident, let’s learn why we may go ‘blank’ sometimes.
Consultant neurolog Dr Sudhir Kumar, Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad said there could be various underlying reasons for going blank or fumbling. “The commonest reason could be stress or anxiety. Another could be sleep deprivation. Lack of sleep the previous night can result in cognitive durbances. Losing just one hour of sleep may adversely affect memory and other cognitive functions, and it could take up to four days for the cognitive functions to return to baseline,” Dr Kumar told .
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Multi-tasking could be another reason for transient memory lapses, pointed out Dr Kumar.Story continues below this ad

“If a person is not focused on a particular task and is trying to do multiple things at the same time, they could suffer from episodes of memory lapses, as attention and concentration may be compromised,” said Dr Kumar.

Dr Kumar also cautioned that one should not forget a real brain disease. “Episodes of fumbling and memory issues could be a beginning of mild cognitive impairment. If these issues become frequent or if they disrupt the normal day-to-day functioning, a neurolog should be consulted for evaluation,” said Dr Kumar.
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