With No Time to Sleep coming up soon, Sarmad Khoosat gets candid while talking to Dawn.com about playing the character of a death row inmate and the importance of such a performance.

"As an actor I want to immerse in it as much as I can. It is not easy getting into the skin of a person on death row. The irreversible finality is a big challenge," says Sarmad during a Facebook Live interview.

"In the time of social media, we're always online, anticipating a notification. We even scroll our timeline when there's nothing else to do. For 24 hours, people will be looking up our performance. They won't be watching it in a go but I imagine they'll be coming back to it every now and then."

He adds, "Everyone can go live on Facebook, but to go on it live and perform, bring theatre close to digital like this, I don't think it has really been done. I'll have to embrace the camera and connect with it the way I would with an audience. It's much tougher with cameras, especially with such a long performance."

According to Khoosat, "Working on this required a lot of groundwork. Doing all the research like reading prison manuals and what not. In the process, coming to this point, I have to say I've become very sensitised to the matter. Its not a preconceived notion that we hear about everyday."