Actors It is only now that female in my age group are getting good work: Tanvi Azmi
Juhi Chakraborty
Cinema is changing and so are perceptions towards actors, and Tanvi Azmi feels that this change has brought about a shift in the type of roles being written for women of a certain age in Bollywood.
“I would say that it is more of a recent thing for actors in my age group... It is a very recent development that we are getting good work. Suddenly, we are all being discovered and being looked at as people who can helm a film on their shoulder,” shares Azmi.
The 60-year-old notes how characters and stories are now being written keeping older female actors in mind. “They write stories about us — real stories, true life stories. The more we explore this, the more it’ll widen our horizons and make filmmakers more available and open to such scripts,” she adds.
The actor says because of the increase in opportunities she is now more willing to do a number of projects. “I am more than happy and more than willing to do more work. All of us can do so much more work, and of course I would never have turn down Tribhanga or even Thappad (2020), even though I didn’t have the central character in it,” she says.
And there is only one criterion that she has while choosing projects. “I want to be a part of a film which is trying to project something else, something new. I want to be a part of these films. It would be great if I got central characters in the new kind of films that are being made... the new kind of filmmaking. Not talking about platforms but stories that are being told. I hope that I do get more stuff like this,” she concludes.
They write stories about real us — stories... more The we explore the more this, it’ll widen our horizons.
TANVI AZMI,