MUMBAI: Tisca Chopra has received praise from critics for her roles in films such as Taare Zameen Par, Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji, Hostages, and Dahan. However, after being replaced on a project by "someone younger," the actress decided to become a producer.

“In 2016, there was a particular director who strung me along for a bit of time. We started doing prep, costumes, lines, and everything. About four days before the shoot, he said they were going with someone younger. Then, he tried to fob it off by saying it’s the call of the producers. But I could see that it was just… I didn’t want to hear that anymore,” she recalled during a conversation with the popular news portal.

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Tisca continued, “By that time, I also got a sense of the fact that there were things going on in my head that I had been ignoring for some time. I’ve had the benefit of working with wonderful directors and learning from them by watching their process and imbibing that. If youth and beauty are the only two things that are attractive in a particular market… my insides rebelled against that. If they are interested only in young and beautiful, it’s a very sad world we’re living in.”

Tisca Chopra supported the short film Chutney and talked candidly about her decision to pursue a career in a creator during the interview. “I had been doing this piece called Chutney at Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai. It was based on Bhisham Sahni’s story. It too had morphed into something else by that time in my head. So, I narrated that to a few, very close people and we came up with the story and wrote it. The protagonist was neither good-looking nor young. Nor did she have any other privileges. She was not well-spoken and didn’t have a male heir or a child. And yet, she controls the narrative in that story,” she said.

Tisca recently entered the film industry and praised the priceless lessons she learned from Aamir Khan while collaborating with him on Taare Zameen Par.

“Working with him was akin to attending the Aamir Khan School of Filmmaking. He threw himself into the directorial role with such dedication, inviting us to engage deeply with the filmmaking process, from scene blocking to lens selection. His passion and authenticity deeply impressed me,” she said earlier to Siddharth Kanan.

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