All the audience needs is love!
opular actress Tabu, who has successfully straddled commercial and off-beat films for over three decades, says romance as a genre is great and works in some ways in cinema. Tabu played a tough cop in Drishyam, an anti-terrorist bureau agent in Fanaa, a suicide bomber in Hu Tu Tu and many more strong roles, but she isn’t against the idea of romance on-screen.
“Romance is always great. I think it always has its own place and works in some way in cinema because as an audience, as people, we always want to see love. People want love and everybody is inspired by this idea of romance and love...so, definitely (she would like to act in a romantic film),” said Tabu. “But romance of a different kind. I feel very bored looking at the typical way of presenting romance. That’s okay for some films; but I would like to do romance of a different kind,” added the actress, who has starred in romantic films like Pehla
Pehla Pyar, Prem and Cheeni Kum.
She is currently enjoying the success of her film AndhaDhun, which is a rare combination of mystery, thriller, romance and comedy.
“I took it up because I wanted to work with Sriram Raghavan (the film’s director) and because this kind of a character... I will never say no to. It stretches my bandwidth and gives me a chance to work with somebody who has been around for so long and has his own space. He presents and projects his characters in a very unique way. I am always hungry for these kinds of experiences. I knew that it would be a really important film for me,” she said.
Tabu also heaped praise on her co-star Ayushmann Khurrana. “I think it’s his best performance so far. He was working really hard, but didn’t make it look like he was working really hard. He was having fun, cracking jokes and still playing such a difficult role,” she said about Ayushmann, who played a blind pianist in the film. Looking ahead, Salman Khan-starrer Bharat is one of her upcoming films. She doesn’t play the lead role in it though, and it hardly bothers her.