Glorification of mothers in cinema annoying, says Vidya Balan
Indian cinema’s long history of eulogising mothers has always “annoyed” actor Vidya Balan as she believes it prevents them from being seen as people who can be flawed. In her recently released film “Shakuntala Devi”, Vidya played the titular math genius, who is not the perfect parent to her daughter Anupama Banerjee. “People are realising that mothers are human beings. A friend of mine wrote to me saying she realised she never looked at her mother as a person but just a mother. “I’m getting long messages of appreciation, about…
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