Young women with no qualms about ageing for a role

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Young women with no qualms about ageing for a role

The argument is if sexagenarian Amitabh Bachchan can play schoolboy why can't they act older?

"It is a proof of prowess...if you can meet the challenge of playing the role of a grandmother at an age when you are not even married and people accept you in the character, you know that you are a good actor," says Shikha Singh, who plays Amba in the popular Colors series Naa Aana Is Des Laado, which is in for a generation leap. She was in Lucknow on Tuesday with other members of the cast, including Meghna Malik, who plays the towering Amma ji and two new entrants Simran Kaur and Vaishnavi Dhanraj.

"Viewers have lauded my role as a brutal matriarch for a good two years and I am looking forward to playing a grandmother," hopes Malik, betraying no sign of regret for being typecast as someone twice her age. On the contrary, the girlswho make an entry playing 18 years old twin sisters are 22 years of age each.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/good-old/724928/

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