Good Old

“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.

“The character I get to play of a bubbly college girl is just what I am and that is what helped me pass the audition with flying colours,” says Dhanraj,hailing from Nagpur,who started with Marathi play Saha Kasa? Takatak! and debuted on TV with Karam Apna Apna playing a blind married woman and “had to die in CID” to take this new assignment. Kaur,who plays her twin,has done a number of TV commercials and looks forward to her new innings.