actor Neena Gupta He isn’t any stranger to experiencing the consequences of patriarchy in each his private {and professional} life. In a brand new interview, she defined how frequent it was for feminine actors to play moms and older siblings who had been a lot older than male stars. She mentioned that she as soon as performed the function of actor Firoz Khan’s sister, although she was twenty years older than him.
Neena joined her Unchai co-star Sarika in Mirchi’s interview. Sarika mentioned that although issues are removed from good, there was a outstanding change within the angle of male stars. She mentioned that lots of them at the moment are keen to play fathers to grown-up girls, which was not the case earlier, when the ’70-year-old’ additionally danced because the romantic lead.
Sarika mentioned in Hindi, “Playing moms just isn’t at all times a foul factor, it’s fallacious after they ask you to play a mom to somebody who’s simply 4 years youthful than you in actual life… There are lots of males who’re of their 50s, and they’re enjoying the function of father, so it is nice. In the previous days, even after turning 70, they used to bop across the bushes.
Neena additional mentioned, “I once played the role of Firoz Khan’s elder sister… she was 20 years older than me… I have done many (such roles) because at that time we had TV shows or something. We only had movies, and we only got these roles.” Sarika interrupted, “Now, this is wrong, see?” Neena was probably referring to a 1992 movie titled Yalgaar was.
Unchai Directed by Sooraj Barjatya, the movie starred Amitabh Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Boman Irani, Parineeti Chopra and Danny Denzongpa. The movie can be launched in theaters on Friday.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
