{"id":301825,"date":"2025-11-23T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301825\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:05:07","slug":"shefali-shah-says-dug-my-own-grave-playing-akshay-kumars-mother-in-waqt-my-husband-told-me-dont-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301825\/","title":{"rendered":"Shefali Shah says \u2018dug my own grave\u2019 playing Akshay Kumar’s mother in Waqt: \u2018My husband told me don\u2019t do this’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bollywood actor Shefali Shah<\/a> is currently garnering praise for her performance in Delhi Crime Season 3<\/a>. In the beginning of her career, the actor essayed the role of Amitabh Bachchan\u2019s wife and Akshay Kumar\u2019s mother in the 2005 film Waqt: The Race Against Time. In a recent interview with Times Now<\/a>, Shefali admitted that playing Akshay\u2019s mother was a setback in her career.<\/p>\n

\"Shefali Shefali Shah opened up about playing Akshay Kumar’s mother in Waqt. Shefali opened up about setback after playing Akshay’s mother in Waqt<\/p>\n

Shefali revealed that taking on the role in Waqt came as a professional setback, and shared what her husband, the film\u2019s director and producer, Vipul Amrutlal Shah, told her at the time: \u201c[My] husband told me, don\u2019t do it. Amitji suggested, \u2018Why don\u2019t you take Shefali for this?\u2019 and then he was like, \u2018I don\u2019t think she\u2019ll fit it.\u2019 One day, I put powder in my hair to say, \u2018See, I can look older and mature.\u2019 He was like, \u2018Do not do this.\u2019 But I was like, \u2018No, no, I want to do it.\u2019 Good, [I] dug my own grave.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked how many years she was out of work after doing the role, Shefali said, \u201cFor the longest time, my career has been more about waiting than actually working. So every part that came\u2026 now that I look back, I don\u2019t have a very long r\u00e9sum\u00e9, but I have a very strong r\u00e9sum\u00e9. And I\u2019m so proud of being part of all those films. Maybe one or two where I felt nahi karna chahiye tha (shouldn\u2019t 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 \u2014 the kind of work that\u2019s offered.\u201d<\/p>\n

About Waqt: The Race Against Time<\/p>\n

Based on a Gujarati play by Aatish Kapadia, the film featured an ensemble cast that included Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, Shefali Shah, Rajpal Yadav, and Boman Irani. Helmed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, the film revolved around Ishwar Chandra Thakur (Bachchan), an ageing, wealthy businessman who becomes unexpectedly strict with his spoiled son, Aditya Thakur (Kumar), in order to teach him life lessons before it is too late.<\/p>\n

Shefali Shah\u2019s recent work<\/p>\n

Shefali is currently seen in Delhi Crime Season 3, reprising her role as Vartika Chaturvedi. The new season also stars Rasika Dugal, Adil Hussain, and Rajesh Tailang, along with Huma Qureshi as the formidable villain, Badi Didi. The season revolves around Vartika chasing Meena, aka Badi Didi, who runs a human trafficking network in Delhi. The show has received unanimous praise and is available to stream on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bollywood actor Shefali Shah is currently garnering praise for her performance in Delhi Crime Season 3. In the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10121,4073,49,48,361,75,124210],"class_list":{"0":"post-301825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-akshay-kumar","9":"tag-bollywood","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-shefali-shah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}