Shefali Shah who has won accolades for her performances in "Satya", "Waqt" and "Gandhi, My Father" is all set to surprise the audience with her fun-loving role in Barnali Ray Shukla's "Kuchh Luv Jaisaa" that releases on May 27.
The young actress who jokes about her perceived dinosaur screen age just because she played Amitabh Bachchan's wife once in her husband Vipul Shah's "Waqt-A Race Against Time", laughs about how the best filmmakers in Bollywood are scared of breaking a prototype. Says Shefali, "All filmmakers talk about wanting great actors. However, if an actor has played a certain kind of a role once and excelled at it, then they keep typecasting the actor."According to Shefali there is an unsaid norm in the industry that if you are a heroine of the film, you do not need to act. In the same way, she also feels that there are people who believe that, "Intelligent, thinking actors cannot be glamorous, act sexy or dance."
Says Shefali, "The point is I look glamourous and I can dance without even trying too hard. Just because I am a wife and a mother and an actor who can play roles of any age, it doesn't mean that I should be typecast in any way."
Shefali has been receiving compliments from the most established filmmakers in Bollywood and outside. She says there are only a few who are willing to take the 'risk' of giving her a challenging role.
Asked whether she can handle an item song like a Malaika Arora Khan does; Shefali says, "Yes I would take an item song in my stride. But item songs are not the only way people dance. Only can dance with abandon in a discotheque."
Shefali is sure that Kuchh Luv Jaisaa will get filmmakers to offer her fresh challenges. "This film could really set people thinking on what I can do," she laughs.
The young actress who jokes about her perceived dinosaur screen age just because she played Amitabh Bachchan's wife once in her husband Vipul Shah's "Waqt-A Race Against Time", laughs about how the best filmmakers in Bollywood are scared of breaking a prototype. Says Shefali, "All filmmakers talk about wanting great actors. However, if an actor has played a certain kind of a role once and excelled at it, then they keep typecasting the actor."According to Shefali there is an unsaid norm in the industry that if you are a heroine of the film, you do not need to act. In the same way, she also feels that there are people who believe that, "Intelligent, thinking actors cannot be glamorous, act sexy or dance."
Says Shefali, "The point is I look glamourous and I can dance without even trying too hard. Just because I am a wife and a mother and an actor who can play roles of any age, it doesn't mean that I should be typecast in any way."
Shefali has been receiving compliments from the most established filmmakers in Bollywood and outside. She says there are only a few who are willing to take the 'risk' of giving her a challenging role.
Asked whether she can handle an item song like a Malaika Arora Khan does; Shefali says, "Yes I would take an item song in my stride. But item songs are not the only way people dance. Only can dance with abandon in a discotheque."
Shefali is sure that Kuchh Luv Jaisaa will get filmmakers to offer her fresh challenges. "This film could really set people thinking on what I can do," she laughs.
