Unlike Asha Parekh and Tanuja, Zarina Wahab likes playing mother in films: ‘After a certain age…’

A few days ago, actors Asha Parekh and Tanuja expressed displeasure over people not writing roles for them. During a session of Maitri: Female First Collective, Asha said, “Today, Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, at this age also, people are writing roles for him. Why aren’t people writing roles for us? We also should be getting some roles which are important to the film. That’s not there. Either we are playing mother, grandmother or we are playing the sister. Who’s interested?”  Tanuja also agreed with Asha and said that she is not interested in playing the role of a mother in movies.

Asha Parekh also spoke about the age gap between heroes and heroines, which still exists in the industry. She said, “For women in those days, it was like if they got married, their career was finished. Now it is not so.” But she did point out that heroes of an older age are still romancing women in their 20s on screen. She said, “So the heroes maybe 50 or 55 years, they are working with 20-year-olds and that is acceptable till today.”