Must read! Appreciation never translated to work: Shefali Shah

MUMBAI: After making her film debut with a minor role in the 1995 drama Rangeela, Shefali Shah played a supporting role in the crime film Satya. Her performance in Satya, Waqt: The Race Against Time, and Dil Dhadakne Do won her a lot of praise.

But she says that the appreciation she often gets for her performances doesn't always translate into work. She has mentioned that the people who express a desire to work with her don't actually follow-up with an offer.

"Appreciation never translated to work or the work I wanted to do," she says. Shefali recently saw the release of her web series, Human, and has many more projects in pipeline. 

On being asked about the one thing she would like to change about the industry, Shefali said, “The ability for people, particularly in cinema fraternity, to stick to their word. They will say, ‘you are very good'. It does not translate to…nothing. So don't just tell me that I am good. ‘Oh god we want to work you,’ really? ‘I want to work with you too' and then nothing happens. Then I see you at the next party and say the exactly same thing to you. It's really boring."

The actress added, “Preference of star is very annoying now. Finally we have woken up and understood that finally we need to be an actor now. And I am glad we had OTT breaking that for us, I am glad it broke it for me. But still there's this thing ‘But star hona chahiye na (but we need a star)!’ Then what happens to talent?”

In 2019, Shefali Shah starred in a web television series called Delhi Crime and was then seen in the Netflix original anthology series Ajeeb Daastaans and in Human, a web series directed by her husband Vipul Shah. She is also starring in Doctor G opposite Ayushmann Khurrana and Rakul Preet Singh and working opposite Alia Bhatt in the upcoming movie Darlings.

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Credits: Hindustan Times