Bhumika Chawla calls it unfortunate as shelf life for female actors still exists: ‘Hero is still playing hero’

In Bollywood, Bhumika Chawla grew to become a family identify in 2003 with the blockbuster hit Tere Naam directed by Satish Kaushik. The tragic love story with Salman Khan marked the actor’s Hindi debut. She had already made her appearing debut with the Telugu movie Yuvakudu in 2000. However, after the movie, the initiatives Bhumika did in Hindi didn’t change into as fashionable as her first ones. She continued to work within the south movie industries in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam languages. Recently, the actor shared there may be nonetheless ageism in direction of feminine actors and that they cease getting good roles as soon as they grow old. (Also learn: Bhumika Chawla: Even after spending 23 years within the movie business, I nonetheless really feel like a newbie)

In Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan, Bhumika has reunited together with her Tere Naam co-star Salman. But she is just not appearing reverse him, Pooja Hegde is. Bhumika essays the position of Pooja’s sister-in-law within the household entertainer. Directed by Farhad Samji, Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan was launched on April 21 on the event of Eid. The Hindi movie, loosely tailored from the Tamil movie Veeram (2014), has earned ₹10.17 crore nett on its first Monday, taking its general collections to ₹78.34 crore nett.

Speaking to Siddharth Kannan, Bhumika revealed, “Unfortunately, there is a shelf life for actresses. I don’t know why because I feel makers aren’t able to view them that way. Now that Netflix is here, Amazon [web] series are coming, content driven films and web series have good work for senior actresses, [in] central roles. But in a commercial mass film has the same system even today. Hero is still playing hero and the female lead has gone backward.”

She added, “The change will have to come from the industry. The audience can’t do that. If we change something, then the audience will accept it. If we don’t change it then how will they accept it?”

Bhumika was final seen within the Tamil thriller Kannai Nambathey wherein she had a double position. In 2022, she appeared within the Hindi movie Operation Romeo starring Sidhant Gupta and Vedika Pinto. The actor was additionally a part of the Telugu movies Sita Ramam and Butterfly in supporting roles.