Ratna Pathak Shah who is married to Naseeruddin Shah is known for a long list of movies in her body of work. Largely, she’s popular as Maya Sarabhai from ‘Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai’. The actress who has always broken stereotypes and done projects like ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ amidst others, has always been quite upfront and vocal about her beliefs and opinions. In a recent interview, she has opened up on embracing her true self and not succumb to things like surgeries, fillers, Botox and more in order to look young. Infact, she even decided to stop colouring her hair after a point and husband Naseeruddin also encouraged her to do so. The actress said during a chat with BBC News Hindi, “I had no plans of setting this as my hairstyle, but I had plans of having grey hair. It’s not like I thought about it a lot. In fact, I won’t lie that sometimes I got annoyed also but overall, this was a profitable idea.”She added further, “The inevitabilities of your life… How long can you stay away from them? And if you try to fight against them, you start appearing foolish. That’s my opinion.” Having said that, actors find it difficult to accept their age, admitted the actress. “Naseer had a role in this. He told me to stop colouring my hair and I can’t tell you what a release it is. It was difficult, my work offers started decreasing because the male actors who can work opposite me, they are still colouring their hair.” But not colouring her hair, left her in this ‘dadi nani’ category when it came to roles. She laughed on it and said, “Now I was in the dadi-nani category, and what roles do dadi-nani have in our films? But despite that, I have gotten good roles with white hair so I feel this acceptance of humanness is very essential for an actor.”
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