Supriya loves playing role of a mom
ANUSHKA Sharma, pictured left, and Katrina Kaif, right, and are set to star together with Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan in the upcoming movie Zero.
Kaif posted a picture of herself and Sharma on her Instagram page looking radiant. She titled it, “Zero Promotions” and tagged Sharma.
In the promo video, Kaif appears on screen for eight seconds but sets it alight dancing to Husn Parcham.
Directed by Aanand L Rai,
Zero features Khan in a vertically challenged avatar, and releases in cinemas on December 21. | Alyssia Birjalal VETERAN actress Supriya Pathak, who played an unwed mother in Masoom and an unschooled mom in Wake Up Sid, knows that she plays a mother all the time, but they are different. She says she tries to bring in variations in her roles – and she always finds them exciting.
The quinquagenarian has attained a cult status in the country for playing Hansa Parekh in the comedy franchise Khichdi. But the audience also loves her work in films like Bazaar, Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela and Delhi-6. While she has played various characters in her Bollywood career that started in the early 1980s, one thing she accepts is that she often gets to essay a mother’s role in movies.
“I know that I play a mother all the time, but different kinds of mother. Every time I get a role of a mother, I try to find a different area, person or milieu where I can put the mother, that’s always exciting. That’s the age bracket I am in, so I am going to get a mother’s role. It’s me who has to make it more interesting and find things to do in it,” Supriya said.
Even in Tigers, which released in India last month on ZEE5, she plays a mother.
“I found the subject to be relevant and an important issue to be brought forward. I feel that cinema if made entertainingly with a certain meaning, reaches out to a lot more people,” she explained.
“It was a kind of subject that needed to be told,” she added about the movie that tells the story of a salesman, who works for an international company that manufactures baby formula products. When he discovers that the products have killed hundreds of children, he decides to expose the company.
Directed by Oscar winner Danis Tanovic, the film had premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival back in 2014.
“I feel that a film made with so much of hard work, if it doesn’t see the light of day, that’s a feeling of sadness. Being in the profession of acting, we would like our work to be watched by people. That’s the reason why we work, and if it is not seen, it is upsetting.
This year saw her making her debut in Telugu filmdom with Aravindha Sametha Veera Raghava, helmed by Trivikram Srinivas.
“I really enjoyed working with the people. It was wonderful. My director was a wonderful person,” said the actress, who starred in the 1985 Malayalam movie Akalathe Ambili.
“Those days, a lot of Hindi films were made in south India. Then also, it was much more organised than in Mumbai or north India. My idea of south (Indian film industry) was always that it was more organised and that attracts you because it has got discipline. People are professionals and, still, there is a kind of basic emotion surrounding it and very workoriented,” said Supriya.
She wants to experiment more as an actress. “I am very fond of acting. My only interest, love and passion is acting.