The first thing that appeared familiar about Sharmila Tagore -- as she sat down for an interview -- was her voice. It is the same voice one has heard for years in films like Aradhana, Amar Prem, Mausam, and going back to her first feature, Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar.
It has matured with age -- she turns 63 in December -- but the tone, the musicality of the voice is the same. A grandmother of two, she arrived for the interview looking glamorous, dressed in jeans, a sky blue sweater with the sleeves pulled back, and a white shirt with stripes.
Tagore made a brief trip to New York to mark the opening of her two films at the Mahendra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival.
In director Sangeeta Dutta's Life Goes On, Tagore shares screen time with her daughter Soha Ali Khan. It is the first time the two have acted together. She has appeared in two films with her son Saif -- Aashik Aawara (1993) and Eklavya (2007).
In Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury's Antaheen, Tagore appears for the first time with Aparna Sen. Both Sen and Tagore were discovered by Ray, but until now they have never acted together.
Sitting in the mezzanine floor of Hotel Paramount in New York City, Tagore talked to Aseem Chhabra about her two new films, her career and her role as the head of the Indian Film Censor Board.
How did it feel to share screen time with your daughter?
Not much really, because we are all professional actors. Whoever we work with becomes another actor, my co-star. I stop to think that I am the mother. At least I do, I cannot speak for the others.
Except that your comfort level is a bit better when you know that person and you can say let's do it this way. And that is the same if you have been working a very long time with another actor or a director. Otherwise we will be equally selfish, equally giving. But ultimately you curb these feelings and leave it to the director.
Obviously you do not want to upstage. Some people work like that. But I have never been that upstaging kind. I wouldn't want to upset anyone.
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Well, I guess she was one of the luckiest actress of her times to have worked with Satyajit Ray.
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