Kirron Kher, who has brought individualistic nuances to her ‘mother’ portrayals in Veer Zaara, Rang De Basanti, Devdas, Hum Tum, KANK, Om Shanti Om and the upcoming Mummyji (she plays a techno-savvy mom), states emphatically, “I didn’t accept those roles as ‘mother’s roles’. I’ve done them as characters with realistic shades. I take strong objection to clubbing ‘Indian mothers’ as a stereotype.”
From playing the mother who smoked in a loo in Monsoon Wedding to the weak mother who couldn’t support her homosexual son in My Brother Nikhil, Lillette Dubey has attempted the unusual. Veering away from the ‘khush raho beta’ roles, she says, “Today, mothers contribute to the narrative and are not mere props.
Their character is integral to the film’s tapestry. Secondly, it has been understood that the mother is foremost a person.” Of her well-groomed image, she says, “Though I’m not a worshipper of youth, it’s important for women to know that age is in the mind. ‘I am important to me’, not for anyone but for myself.”
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