Actor Sarika has responded to a press release that when senior actors weren’t getting good roles, it was actor Neena Gupta asking for work that opened the doorways for others. In a brand new interview, Sarika disagreed saying that it was Neena’s ‘particular person story’ and he or she did not open the gate ‘for all other actresses’. She additionally added that it was ‘not as if actors weren’t getting roles’. (Also Read | Sarika remembers senior actors telling her ‘aise heroine thodi na hoti hai’)
Neena, in 2017, had requested for work on her Instagram account. Sharing a photograph of herself, she wrote, “I live in Mumbai and working am a good actor looking for good parts to play.”
Speaking with Siddharth Kannan, Sarika stated, “I think it’s Neena ji’s individual story but it was not as if actors were not getting roles. It is her individual story that she started getting so much work which is amazing and it’s brilliant that she went and put herself out and said, ‘I want work’. Then she got work because she is a good actor, it’s brilliant. But I don’t think it is that that opened for everybody.”
“I think Shefali has been doing great work. There are so many good actresses who have been working. I love Sheeba. I just love Sheeba’s work. We worked together in Parzania also. Now when I see her work, it is amazing. So, I don’t think Neena ji opened the gate for all other actresses, it was in her case that she did something which was praiseworthy,” Sarika additionally stated.
Sarika started her profession as a toddler actor within the mid-Nineteen Sixties with movies resembling Majhli Didi and Hamraaz, adopted by main roles in Geet Gaata Chal, Madhu Malti, Jaan-E-Bahaar, and Jaani Dushman. But appearing took a backseat after she obtained married to actor Kamal Haasan in 1988. She returned to the display screen within the mid-2000s with movies like Bheja Fry and Parzania, for which she gained the National Award.
Sarika was lately seen in Sooraj Barjatya’s Uunchai, which launched in theatres. Uunchai chronicles the story of 4 associates of their twilight years, performed by Amitabh Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Boman Irani, and Danny Denzongpa. The movie additionally stars Neena Gupta and Parineeti Chopra. Uunchai is produced by Rajshri Productions in affiliation with Mahaveer Jain Films and Boundless Media.