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Delnaaz Irani opens up about playing Gulshan Tarapurwala, an overbearing Parsi mother, in Netflixs Chumbak. Speaking to Mid-Day, the actor reveals filmmaker Aatish Kapadia wrote the role keeping her in mind and recalls preparing for her audition by wearing old clothes from her cupboard. Irani says she initially avoided Parsi characters because they were often reduced to caricatures, but embraced Chumbak for its fuller portrayal of a Parsi family and its distinctive quirks.
Radhika Apte has opened up about why women often struggle to find time for their own desires while balancing work, motherhood and household responsibilities. Speaking to IANS in the context of Lust Stories 3, the actor said women often have zero time for themselves and stressed that motherhood should not become their entire identity. She also discussed the unequal burden of domestic work, arguing that sharing responsibilities could give women more space to live for themselves.