November 16, 2007
Begum Para makes a comeback after 50 years in ” Saawariya”
Mumbai, Nov 16 (IANS) Begum Para, seen as Sonam Kapoor’s spirited grandmother in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Saawariya”, makes a comeback to the silver screen after 50 years and says hers is the longest lay-off in the history of show business.
She took a break from films after marrying legendary Dilip Kumar’s lesser-known brother Nasir Khan.
“That was in 1958,” Begum Para, now a healthy 80, laughed throatily. “Now I’m back in 2007 in ‘Saawariya’. This has to be the longest lay-off in the history of show business,” Begum Para told IANS.
Before settling down with Nasir Khan, she did films like “Shama”, “Mehdi”, “Pedro” and “Dada” in the 1940s.
“You know in our film industry there’s this old habit of typecasting actors. I was typecast as the so-called liberated woman. The roles were not interesting enough for me. They stamped me as this smoking woman who always ends up insulting her father.
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