Ratna Pathak Shah needs good roles for Waheeda Rehman: ‘They give her an award and stick her in one corner’

Ratna Pathak Shah usually bats for fellow senior feminine actors who do not get meaty components supplied to them. In an interview with Film Companion, Ratna has now made everybody flip their consideration to Waheeda Rehman. She claimed that the ecosystem is content material giving the 85-year-old actor an award, however not a task of her potential. (Also Read: Dhak Dhak trailer: Ratna Pathak Shah, Dia Mirza, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanjana Sanghi take you on a trip of a lifetime)

What Ratna mentioned

“When I see a Meryl Streep (74) and a Helen Mirren (78), I feel if they can do it, so can I. And I’m sorry that a Waheeda Rehman in our country doesn’t get the parts that she deserves. What a fabulous woman, and what a fabulous actress she is! All they want to do is give her a little award and stick her in one corner. Really? Give her a good role for Christ’s sake. Keep the award,” Ratna mentioned within the interview.

Previously, Ratna has batted for fellow actor Deepti Naval, who did not get the sort of roles she deserved through the years. Deepti was final seen as Kalki Koechlin’s mom in Pushan Kripalani’s Goldfish earlier this 12 months.

Waheeda Rehman was final seen in The Song of Scorpion, which launched in Indian cinemas earlier this 12 months. She was not too long ago conferred upon the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

No nation for older actors

Ratna mentioned that this lack of senior girl actors within the Indian movie business stopped her from pondering of appearing as a long-term gig. “All of us have had to come to terms with the way we look. And the fact that your body is changing. And if I don’t want to fiddle with it too much, I need to accept what I am. The most revealing thing to me, as stupid as it seems considering who my mother was (Dina Pathak), that I thought acting has a shelf life, as a woman. That I’ll act until I’m pretty, and then I’ll do something else. I can’t imagine I thought like that, but I did,” Ratna mentioned in the identical interview.

She will likely be subsequent seen in Dhak Dhak, which releases in cinemas this Friday on October 13, as a Punjabi biker.

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