Tabu celebrates that film industry is getting out of the shackles of youth centrism
Tabu is reteaming with her frequent co-star Ajay Devgn for a mature romance in «Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha», the actress is happy that cinema and audiences are more receptive to such stories today. Directed by Neeraj Pandey, the upcoming Hindi film revolves around Krishna (Devgn) and Vasudha (Tabu), a couple who separates when Krishna is jailed for murder. They cross paths after 20 years when he is released from prison.
Shantanu Maheshwari and Saiee Manjrekar play the younger Krishna and Vasudha, respectively.
At the trailer launch event of «Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha», Tabu thanked Pandey for «envisioning this love story» with her and Devgn.
«When our society changes, our cinema changes, our entertainment changes. It's nice. Society changes everything around us. Now the label has gone (in cinema) that love is only for the young.
»Depth of feeling and emotion of love change with age. Now, there is a space for everything in the cinema. A film director's vision, actors, distributors and the audience's taste… They all should coincide for such films to work," the actress told reporters here.
Devgn, who has also worked with Tabu in films such as «Haqeeqat», «Thakshak» «Drishyam» movies, «Bholaa», «Golmaal Again» and «De De Pyaar De», joked about their long filmography together.
«We have worked together so much that it doesn't feel like I am working with a co-star,» he said.
Devgn, who was most recently seen in period sports drama «Maidaan», also batted for movies that map the evolution of human emotions.
«With age,
