Lara Dutta knows that playing a 40-year-old woman in Bollywood is a privilege few female actors before her could enjoy. In a new interview with Pinkvilla, Lara was asked about how men often play characters decades younger than their actual age but she said she has no interest in doing the same. (Also read: Lara Dutta on being called 'buddhi and moti' by trolls: 'There are anonymous people behind handles' ) Lara Dutta has no intention of not playing her age.
Actual women getting represented now “I think it's great (women getting to play their own age). Yeah. And I hope it happens more.
Why? Because for the longest time ever, we never ever, ever represented women in this country over a certain age. It was always the college-going or the 20-year-old falling in love for the first time. Any representation of women on screen was either the mother who has sacrificed everything, or the horrible saas or the suffering bahu, there was just no representation of actual women,” Lara said.
She plays a politician in her new series Ranneeti: Balakot and Beyond. Before that, she played former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in BellBottom. HT launches Crick-it, a one stop destination to catch Cricket, anytime, anywhere.
Explore now! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lara Dutta Bhupathi (@larabhupathi) She added, "So I love the fact that today there are women on screen who are in all forms, you know, powerful women, vulnerable women, diabolical women, but women who are 40, 50 60, 70,.
