Updated On: 29 November, 2021 09:37 AM IST | Mumbai | Uma Ramasubramanian
Even as she admits that roles are scarce for 40-plus women, Bob Biswas actor Chitrangda says better stories and brave leading ladies are rewriting the rules

Chitrangda Singh
She remembers watching the spine-chilling contract killer in Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani (2012). Nine years later, Chitrangda Singh finds herself immersed in the world of Bob Biswas, a spinoff film based on the 2012 film character. She has no qualms admitting that the ZEE5 film is centred on Abhishek Bachchan who plays the cold-blooded killer. “It is totally Bob’s film. But I knew Sujoy was writing it. He writes his female characters well; so, that was a big yes for me.” The actor plays Mary, Bob’s devoted wife who guides him as he grapples with memory loss.

Abhishek Bachchan in Bob Biswas