Shefali Shah, a Bollywood actor, is now being praised for her work in Delhi Crime Season 3. In the 2005 film Waqt: The Race Against Time, the actress played Amitabh Bachchan`s wife and Akshay Kumar`s mother, which launched her career. In a recent interview with Times Now, Shefali revealed that playing Akshay`s mother was a career setback.
Shefali said that taking up the part in Waqt came as a professional setback. She shared what her husband, the film`s director and producer, Vipul Amrutlal Shah, told her at the time. She said, “[My] husband told me, don’t do it. Amitji suggested, ‘Why don’t you take Shefali for this?’ and then he was like, ‘I don’t think she’ll fit it.’ One day, I put powder in my hair to say, ‘See, I can look older and mature.’ He was like, ‘Do not do this.’ But I was like, ‘No, no, I want to do it.’ Good, [I] dug my own grave.”
Shefali was also asked about the years she was out of work. Shefali said, “For the longest time, my career has been more about waiting than actually working. So every part that came… now that I look back, I don’t have a very long résumé, but I have a very strong resume. And I’m so proud of being part of all those films. Maybe one or two where I felt nahi karna chahiye tha (shouldn’t have done it), but otherwise you do a Gandhi, My Father, The Last Lear, and there is Once Again, Three of Us, all of it. And it just keeps getting better — the kind of work that’s offered.”
Based on Aatish Kapadia`s Gujarati play, the film starred Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, Shefali Shah, Rajpal Yadav, and Boman Irani. The film, directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, followed Ishwar Chandra Thakur (Bachchan), an elderly, affluent businessman who unexpectedly becomes strict with his spoilt son, Aditya Thakur (Kumar), in order to teach him life lessons before it is too late.
Shefali can presently be seen in Season 3 of Delhi Crime, where she plays Vartika Chaturvedi. The new season also includes Rasika Dugal, Adil Hussain, and Rajesh Tailang, as well as Huma Qureshi as Badi Didi, the powerful villain. Vartika spends the season hunting Meena, called Badi Didi, who operates a human trafficking network in Delhi. The show has gained universal acclaim and is available for streaming on Netflix.
