Shefali Shah says ‘dug my own grave’ playing Akshay Kumar's mother in Waqt

Shefali Shah reflected on her early career, sharing that playing Akshay Kumar’s mother in Waqt was a setback for her.

Bollywood actor Shefali Shah is currently garnering praise for her performance in Delhi Crime Season 3 . In the beginning of her career, the actor essayed the role of Amitabh Bachchan’s wife and Akshay Kumar’s mother in the 2005 film Waqt: The Race Against Time. In a recent interview with Times Now , Shefali admitted that playing Akshay’s mother was a setback in her career.

Shefali revealed that taking on the role in Waqt came as a professional setback, and shared what her husband, the film’s director and producer, Vipul Amrutlal Shah, told her at the time: “[My] husband told me, don’t do it. Amitji suggested, ‘Why don’t you take Shefali for this?’ and then he was l