Zeenat Aman Drops Old Clip About Being Typecast In Bollywood: 'That Unshakeable Glamour-Puss Tag...'

Zeenat Aman took to Instagram to share an old clip from an interview in the 1980s in which she spoke about being typecast in commercial cinema. The veteran actress said that she used to think that she was quite mature but upon this reflection, she saw a naive Zeenat instead.

She wrote, “There’s nothing quite like a video from the late 80s to make me feel like a fossil! BBC Asian Network invited me for a lengthy interview at such a turning point in my life. I was just bowing out of the public eye, having become the mother of one, but not yet two sons. And was fully in ‘family mode’.”

She added, “It’s far more surreal to see myself frozen in time in such interviews than it is to see my old filmography. I felt then that I had experienced so very much of life already, and that it would be smooth sailing here on out. Boy! Was I wrong. It makes me laugh that the Zeenat I imagined to be so mature then, now seems to me such a naive and lovely young thing. So just remember that when times are tough, better things await. And when times are wonderful, enjoy them to the fullest because a hiccup is surely around the corner.”

“Anyway, ignore my ‘You Tarzan, Me Jane’ outfit, and enjoy this clip of my reflections on my career and that unshakeable ‘glamour-puss’ tag! It’s quite rare because it’s from a period of time where I made very few public appearances. I was going to post a picture of my new haircut, but this felt more fun! And as always, your thoughts and comments are cherished,” she wrote.

In the video, Zeenat spoke about how it is “very easy to get stuck with labels” and that in commercial Hindi cinema, the role of a woman is to “sing songs, they look pretty, they do a few weepy scenes and that’s it.” Zeenat Aman added in the video that while her big break was Hare Rama Hare Krishna, she got meaty parts in films like Bandhan Kachche Dhaago Ka, Insaaf ka Taraazu, and Satyam Shivam Sundaram.