Ratna Pathak Shah demands good role for Dada Saheb Phalke Award winner Waheeda Rehman: ‘They give her a little award and stick her in one corner’

Ratna Pathak Shah confessed that she earlier believed female actors have a shelf life. “All of us have had to come to terms with the way we look. And the fact that your body is changing. And if I don’t want to fiddle with it too much, I need to accept what I am. The most revealing thing to me, as stupid as it seems considering who my mother was (Dina Pathak), that I thought acting has a shelf life, as a woman. That I’ll act until I’m pretty, and then I’ll do something else. I can’t imagine I thought like that, but I did,” Ratna said in the same interview.

Waheeda Rehman’s most recent appearance was in the 2021 film Skater Girl, available on Netflix. Her last theatrical release was The Song of Scorpions, starring Irrfan Khan, which received favourable reviews. In contrast, Ratna Pathak Shah’s most recent project was Yash Raj Films’ 2022 film Jayeshbhai Jordaar. She is also a part of Vishal Bhardwaj’s latest web series, Charlie Chopra & The Mystery of Solang Valley.