2024-03-25 04:22:11
You might remember actress Geeta Aggarwal Sharma, who was seen in the role of a mother in powerful films like ‘Lapta Ladies’, ’12th Fail’ and ‘All India Rank’. He played an important role in all. He says that earlier his presence on screen was limited to supporting roles only. No one paid any attention to this. But when the crime thriller web series ‘Cat’ came and in it she played the role of Madam Aulakh, a politician running a cocaine racket in Punjab, she got the role of Vikrant Massey’s mother Pushpa. After this, she started getting offers for different types of projects. Geeta started her career with TV shows like ‘Kaisa Yeh Ishq Hai’ and started her film career with the 2007 film ‘Photo’. A decade later, she acted in the comedy film ‘Mubarakan’ and then got the role of a mother in ‘OMG 2’. Appeared in the character of Pankaj Tripathi’s wife.
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How did Geeta Aggarwal get roles?
Geeta Aggarwal told in an interview to news agency PTI, ‘I had done Mubarakan, in which I worked with Pavan Malhotra and he had suggested my name to the director of OMG 2, because he had seen my work earlier. So, one role led to another. I had worked with Balwinder Singh Janjua, who was the writer of Mubarakan. He cast me in his directorial debut OTT series Kat and later in his film Tera Kya Hoga Lovely.
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Deepika Padukone’s mother was
Geeta Aggarwal played the role of mother Yashoda in ‘Laapta Ladies’ and gained popularity from it. Prior to this, she also played the role of Usha in the big budget action drama ‘Fighter’, a mother torn between her daughter, played by Deepika Padukone, and her husband. ‘I did a web series called Flesh with director Siddharth Anand. Later they offered me Fighter. It was a small but beautiful role. It is rare that when you act with a superstar, you are seen in the same frame.
Geeta Aggarwal’s character got recognition
The actress told that she has played the role of a mother so many times on screen that now she gets similar roles. ‘Many times people contacted me for a film and said that you are playing the role of such and such actor’s mother, right? Just calling a character like this used to surprise the actor. Especially when he comes from the theatre. I am just like, what kind of offer is this? There must be something different and concrete. I am happy that the characters played by me are not anonymous.