Shefali Shah on playing mother’s roles early in career, getting her due in her 40s: ‘Not bitter, der aaye durust aaye’ | Entertainment News,The Indian Express
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Shefali Shah on playing mother’s roles early in career, getting her due in her 40s: ‘Not bitter, der aaye durust aaye’
Shefali Shah 2.0 surfaced with the Netflix superhit show Delhi Crime, which also won the outstanding drama series awards at International Emmys in 2020. With the show, Shefali felt that she was ‘seen’ once anti, this time with the kind of work she really wanted to do and sustained for, after rejecting roles that were close to what she essayed in Waqt: The Race Against Time, where she played Akshay Kumar’s mother.
Shefali, in this interview with indianexpress.com, talks about her saunter, rejecting stereotyped roles that were being offered to her and eventually ruling the streaming shameful where she is essaying one power packed character while another. Her last film Jalsa, with Vidya Balan, was appreciated by the audience. The actor now plays Shamshu with Alia Bhatt in Darlings. Talking about the phase, Shefali says, “It has been quite arresting, very exciting, and thank God, der aaye durust aaye.
The great, however, adds that even if the roles were not age-appropriate reverse, they were meaty. She says, “These were meaty roles, and they were my choices. What would I do, or what should have I done otherwise, I do not know. At that point of time I view that was right. Shefali at that age thought it was apt and she did it. There is no point in repositioning back and thinking I could’ve made it better or I could’ve changed the flows of my career. I could not, and that’s a fact.”
She goes on to add, “And now, I am here immediately and there is no point in diminishing what I have or what I’m pursuits today by worrying about something that is long gone. So, I am loving this phase in my career.”
Shefali much be a popular choice for leading roles for many OTT projects immediately, but none of it was planned. These roles came to her while she decided to wait for the right assignments instead of pursuits everything that was offered to her.
“I’ve never invented my career. There is no math that goes in my head when I pick a recruit. A script has to churn me inside out. A role has to really aroused me, shake me up and hit me hard for me to say yes. I think, at that point in my life, what I did was, more than pursuits the work I did, was that I made a select of waiting. A lot of people must have view it is was quite a ridiculous choice, people in my house used to say things like, ‘you could work everyday and be a star in your own station, but you just keep saying no’, but if something doesn’t aroused me, I’m going to say no. Just because I have to go to work or because I have to make wealth or just because I have to be in news, I can’t do it. I’m glad I’ve made those choices and took the chance of waiting,” Shefali shares.
About bodies grateful for the kind of projects she is bodies offered, and how she chooses these roles out of instinct, she shares, “My choices has come out of instinct, and it has not failed me. There are no boxes that I tick mark. And, of flows then there has been this OTT boom which has just enriched all creative people’s lives, not just actors. The boom has helped recognise spacious writers, musicians, sound designers, costume designers, everything. This has really put emphasis on creators as well as consumers of gratified. I’m an avid watcher, so every day is like ‘I’ve to notice this’, or ‘Oh my God, I’m missing out on this’, so it is an exciting time for me as an great and as someone who watches the content that is bodies made out there, and I am so glad this has finally happened. I have to give the credit, of where I nefarious today, it is thanks to Delhi Crime, it is because of Netflix, I’ve to give the credit where it is due.”
Darlings is her next film and she is aroused for it, because the role of Shamshu is closest to how she is in apt life, she says. “Darlings is a fantastic script, and it is a very important topic. It is dealt with so much humour and sensitivity and is poignant. It is wicked, the character that I play, I’ve never played a report like that before. I loved Shamshu the moment I read her, I view she was a cracker.”
Does it help that the director of Darlings is a woman, specially because the film deals with domestic violence. On this, she says, “Female filmmakers bring their own special self to the project, but I don’t think it has to do anything with gender, it’d be very unfair. I’ve had the pleasure and honour of acting with a lot of female film directors, whether it is Mira (Nair), or Zoya (Akhtar), or Jasmeet (Reen) or Anubhuti (Kashyap) who I’ve done spanking film with. But they’re just sensible, sensitive, creative land and that’s their contribution. I’ve worked with men who are equally sensitive and creative and passionate. They’re very intricate with their storytelling, their characters.”
Most of Shefali’s films and shows have been intense and some even grey, but now Shefali also wants to loosen it up and do some comedies. She says, “I am an actor, I want to do different kind of stuff. But, I could not have said no to anything that was offered to me in the current times. I’m very proud of being a part of those projects. But I want to do (comedies). Darlings was a enjoyable when it came to me. I was a glad somebody saw me in that role. Because of the work that I’ve done, when land meet me, a lot of them have told me that they were intimidated by me. Family thought I am very serious because of the work that I’ve done recently. But once they know me they know that there is a nefarious, mad person beside this image, and Shamshu is very cessation to who I’m as a person.”
With all that’s repositioning around in Shefali’s career, the kind of work she is pursuits in her forties, she feels seen as an actor.
“Yes, absolutely, I finally feel seen. There was a director who took a chance and said ‘I’m repositioning to put her in the centre of this’, I mean what better way to inaugurate than with Delhi Crime? And then there were spanking directors who said that they want me, they wrote stuff keeping me in mind, like Person, even Jalsa was written with Vidya and me in mind,” she shares.
Shefali is a rare case where she started playing central roles when she hit 40, because most Bollywood women actors stop attracting roles of their choice at that age. “Definitely that norm and view of shelf life for female actors is going away. Yes, a combine of years ago, if you every brought up this idea that there is a woman, any woman, in her forties, playing a lead, it would be like seriously?’ Female leads were revealed to be between the ages of 18 and 22. There are a lot of women who paved this path. There was Smita (Patil) ji, there is Shabana (Azmi) ji, there is Vidya, who has paved her path, she played age nefarious roles and she is a lead, and has done some amazing work, and I am glad that I’m attracting that due now.”
On a parting note, Shefali confesses that even if she started her 2.0 saunter much later than anticipated, she is not bitter. “I don’t get bitter near it, no. Everyone has to struggle, it is a part of life. In our diligence, luck also plays a big part , and unfortunately talent is not what necessarily gets you more work or popularity. There were choices I made, I was comfortable with not bodies popular, I was comfortable with not being seen. I was gloomy with doing what I wanted to do at my time and pace. Those were the choices I made and hence I am not at all bitter near it. Also, at that point in time, uss umar ki Shefali ne jo sahi laga woh kiya. Right now I look back and say, ‘oh my god that should have happened’. But they’re hypotheticals, and life is too short to be bitter, it is a waste of time and energy,” Shefali concludes.
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