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Fareeda Jalal wants to portray a challenging character now<\/p>\nFew actors can boast the longevity and continued relevance that Farida Jalal has enjoyed, remaining one of the industry’s most enduring and active performers. <\/p>\n
Fareeda Jalal wants to portray a challenging character now<\/p>\n
A testament to this is her latest film, Welcome to the Jungle, in which she plays Badi Bi, who speaks incoherently. Yet, the audience has not stopped showering love on the character. <\/p>\n
\u201cGod\u2019s kind! Everyone has been saying great things. Compliments are flowing in from all quarters. This is our reward as actors,\u201d says Jalal, recalling how the character was fleshed out.<\/p>\n
\u201cAkshay (Kumar, actor), Ahmad (Khan, director) and I were all sitting together when Akshay got a call. This girl on the other end kept jabbering away. After the call, Akshay said, \u2018Let\u2019s have you do something similar in the film. Everyone knows you for your perfect dialogue delivery, pronunciation, diction, etc. Let\u2019s give you this character now.\u2019 And I thought, \u2018Okay, let\u2019s give it a shot.\u2019 And now everyone has only great things to say!\u201d says the 77-year-old.<\/p>\n
A film that is a laugh riot was just as much fun on set, shares Farida. \u201cIt was one royal picnic. All of us had a blast. Everyone was so much fun and took care of each other. The film has been made with so much love, happiness and hard work. Akshay and Ahmad really looked after everyone,\u201d recalls Farida, adding that despite a gruelling first schedule, they all laughed together all the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur first schedule was in the unforgiving summer heat. I remember there were advisories asking people to stay indoors, and there we were, shooting under the scorching sun. I said to Raveena (Tandon, actor), people think an actor\u2019s job is all glamorous, but this is how we earn our bread. It is a lot of hard work,\u201d she shares.<\/p>\n
And the film\u2019s success only adds to the gratitude she feels for her career. \u201cIt has been so fulfilling. What more can one ask for? The world still remembers my first film, Aradhana (1969). I have only received love and appreciation from people. They come to me, hold my hands and share how my character impacted them or their lives. It\u2019s rewarding. If God asked me, I\u2019d say that in my next lives too, I\u2019d want the same life, the same career. It has been very rewarding\u201d she says, with her signature ring in her voice.<\/p>\n
Yet, in this fulfilling and long career, there is one wish she still has. \u201cIf you ask an actor who is out there to do whatever she can, many times I felt I was boxed in or slotted as a mother figure. I wanted to play characters with a different gait, a different posture, a different body language. I wanted to play challenging roles\u2026 Make me a lawyer, a doctor, something unexpected. Nobody has really touched that side of me at all. Hardly anyone has seen what I can really do, what I am capable of\u2026.<\/p>\n
I am not the kind of person who goes out and asks for work. So yes, there is a slight pain there. Sometimes I feel I am repeating the lines as well,” says Jalal. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I do want to play different shades and characters. Let me show you what I am capable of. You don\u2019t know what I can do! Give me a negative role, let me surprise you,\u201d shares Jalal in her signature melodious voice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few actors can boast the longevity and continued relevance that Farida Jalal has enjoyed, remaining one of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[240814,12066,40489,240815,146,111403,85,46,397,240816],"class_list":["post-526952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-1-farida-jalal-2-welcome-to-the-jungle-3-badi-bi-4-akshay-kumar-5-actor-these-keywords-can-help-improve-seo-related-impressions-for-the-content","tag-actress","tag-cinema","tag-diverse-roles","tag-entertainment","tag-farida-jalal","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies","tag-negative-character"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}