Actress Tabu, whose roles in in films like ‘Maachis’, ‘Chandni Bar’, ‘Maqbool’, ‘Cheeni Kum’ have been widely appreciated, feels proud of charting her course in Bollywood on her own.
“I am proud that we (my sister Farah also an actress and me) had no support system here. We were in new industry, had no guidance but we made it all on our own. I am happy and content with my work and career,” the actress said in an interview here.
“We came from different background…It is a big achievement for me,” she said.
Tabu, who is anxiously awaiting November 21 release of Oscar-winning director Ang Lee’s film ‘Life of Pi’, says she chose to be fastidious now as “acting experience” matters most for her.
“There is hunger to have good experiences with people. There will be roles and all of that. But the package of experience has today become important for me. People should be good, established; the filmmaking and acting experience should become heartening,” the 40-year-old said, adding she consciously chose her films in a way that she gets good experience and not just great roles.
On ‘Life of Pi’ Tabu said she always wanted to be part of the Ang Lee crew.
“I had attraction to work with Ang Lee. I wanted to work with him. It was a great chance. He has done great entertaining, relevant films. He has made beautiful films. I knew this will be sensible, entertaining and good looking film and I wanted to be part of it,” she said.
—-PTI