24 June,2019 07:25 AM IST | | Mohar Basu
A still from Gangs Of Wasseypur
It may be one of the most iconic films on her résumé, but Richa Chadha says that the success of Gangs Of Wasseypur (2012) - that marked its seventh anniversary on Saturday - posed an unanticipated problem for her.
So convinced were filmmakers by her spirited act of Nagma Khatoon - the wife of Manoj Bajpai's character Sardar and mother to Nawazuddin Siddiqui's character Faizal - that the actor, then 25, was promptly stereotyped as an on-screen mother.
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"I thought my career was over after Wasseypur. Post the film's release, it was a struggle to break the image of an older woman. It was an uphill task to get filmmakers to meet me and make them believe that I looked starkly different from Nagma," she recounts. Fortunately, her gumption was rewarded; the actor walked away with several awards that year.
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Chadha points out how the instance was her first brush with Bollywood's inherent sexism. "It highlights the sexism in our industry because I wasn't the only one who was ageing on screen. Now, I would take it as a sign that I had played my part well. But at that time, I was confused by the industry's response."
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