Shefali Shah reveals why she played Akshay Kumar’s mother in ‘Waqt’ in her 20s

Shefali Shah, who has portrayed a number of versatile roles in her career, had begun playing older characters when she was just in her 20s. In the 2005 movie Waqt: The Race Against Time, Shefali played the mother of Akshay Kumar, who is five years than her in real life. In the comedy-drama movie, Shefali’s character Sumitra Thakur is hitched to Amitabh Bachchan’s character Ishwarchand Thakur. The actor, who was just 28 when she accepted the role of middle-aged Sumitra, has said she regrets nothing regarding playing the role.

In a recent interview with Pinkvilla, Shefali said, “I believe that as an actor, the joy of being an actor is that you play roles that you are not. It could be caste, creed, colour, sex, and age falls into the same bracket. So I didn’t see what was the big deal. I mean that was the exciting part, being somebody I am not.”

She also added, “I really loved the script and I loved the role. Before that, I did Hashratein (where she played a 30-35-year-old when she was 20), and there was not so much thinking that went into it.