Kubbra Sait is an Indian actor, model, emcee, and TV host. She became a renowned face after portraying the role of Cuckoo in the Netflix series Sacred Games.
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Early Life and Education
Kubbra was born on 24 July 1983 (as per reports). She was born and raised in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Her parents got divorced when she was young. Her mother Yasmin Sait was a businesswoman and also worked as a supermarket manager.
She has one brother named Danish Sait. He is working as an RJ at Fever 104. He also hosts shows and is a well known comedian. Kubbra’s grandfather was the Mysuru Congressman Azeez Sait.
After finishing her schooling Sait went to the National Institute of Management and Information Sciences located in Bangalore and graduated with a degree in Marketing and Finance.
Career
After completing her studies, Sait pursued modeling for some year. She later went to Dubai and started working as an accounts manager for Microsoft. She returned to India and was offered a role in the 2011 Salman Khan starrer ‘Ready.’ Since then, she has acted in movies like City of Life, Jodi Breakers, and Sultan.
Along with acting, Kubbra worked as a public speaker for an Indian event management company. She was the host of several different TV shows such as Stars Ka Tadka and Star Sports Pro Kabbadi. She has hosted shows in more than 30 countries. She has also appeared in varied commercials for brands like Tata Nano, Airtel, TVS Wego, and Big Bazaar.
Kubbra Sait as ‘Cuckoo’ in Sacred Games
In July 2018, she played the role of a transgender Cuckoo in the Netflix series ‘Sacred Games’ directed by Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane. The series is based on the novel Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra. Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui play the lead roles in the series.
Kubbra’s role in the series has been met with widespread critical acclaim. Most have praised the ease with which she played the role of a transgender woman. Cuckoo is a seductive transgender woman with whom Nawazuddin’s character gets smitten. Subsequently, she has an emotional and eccentric relationship with him. Her dancing skills, her sensuality, her dialogue delivery, and her powerful emotive expressions have been appreciated by both the audiences and the critics.
According to Kubbra, playing the role of Cuckoo was not easy, considering there is no reference in Indian cinema or TV that she could fall back on. For the crucial scene, where Kubbra shows Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s character that she is a transgender, she breaks down with a morbid sense of helplessness. To prepare for that scene, she says that director Anurag Kashyap made her ditch the lines in the script and to just feel the character’ loss of not having someone she loves so much. When Kubbra related to the scene and began breaking down, Anurag Kashyap made her to do the same scene 7 times, till she was wracking in tears. Finally, he expressed his thanks to her for giving him the best shot. And the effort truly paid its reward, because Kubbra Sait’s gender-identity revealing scene is among the best in Sacred Games.
Kubbra Sait – Upcoming Movies
Kubbra’s is slated to appear in the movie Gully Boy directed by Zoya Akhtar and starring Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt.
Personal Life and Trivia
- Sait is 5’ 7” tall.
- There is no information about her being in a relationship or any past boyfriends.
- She won the Miss Personality title at the 2009 Miss India Worldwide Pageant.
- In 2013, she won the Best female Emcee Award.
- Kubra is a TedX Speaker. She has many shows/channels on YouTube with lots of subscribers.
- She is active on Twitter and Instagram and has thousands of followers on each of the social media sites.
Kubbra Sait – Pictures
