Shefali Shah Says ‘Waqt’ Mother Role Shaped Offers

Shefali Shah has spoken about a role she played in the movie ‘Waqt’.

She played the mother of a character acted by Akshay Kumar, even though she was younger than him in real life.

Her husband, director Vipul Shah, had advised her not to take the role.

Amitabh Bachchan recommended her for it after other casting choices did not work out.

She hoped people would admire her acting range.

Instead, she said, many offers that came afterward were for mother roles.

She believes the decision may have affected the kinds of parts she was offered.

She still remembers the film fondly because she got to act with Bachchan.

She wrote about the experience in her memoir, ‘The Audacity of Being’.