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Pooja Bhatt: Playing my age in this youth obsessed industry
Updated On: 02 March, 2021 02:20 PM IST | Mumbai | Uma Ramasubramanian
From offering age-appropriate role to examining #MeToo from a woman’s gaze, Pooja Bhatt discusses how Bombay Begums is the perfect web debut for her
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Pooja Bhatt in Bombay Begums
"You know what they say, life happens to you when you’re busy making other plans," begins Pooja Bhatt, who was offered Bombay Begums when she was assisting director-father Mahesh Bhatt on Sadak 2. The Netflix series marks her foray into digital entertainment. In a way, the all-women drama is also a comeback vehicle for the actor-filmmaker, who stayed away from the big screen since the early 2000s, barring a cameo in Sadak 2.
As Rani, CEO of a leading bank, Bhatt leads the Alankrita Shrivastava-directed venture that tells the story of five women navigating their dreams and desires in a male-dominated world. The biggest incentive for the actor, 49, was that the story offered her an age-appropriate role — a rarity in Indian showbiz. “I was privileged to play my age in this youth-obsessed industry. Even if you come back 30 years later, you are catering to some fantasy that people have had about you when you were 19.
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