Raveena Tandon within the track Ankhiyon Se Goli Maare

Mumbai:

Actor Raveena Tandon says she is elated that by Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award within the nation, her work in each mainstream and impartial cinema has been acknowledged. The actor, whose identify was introduced among the many Padma awardees on the eve of the Republic Day, stated 2023 has begun on an excellent notice.

“It has been a year of awards for KGF 2 and Aranyak. But this (Padma Shri) was the best of all because this encapsulated my entire body of work. It encapsulates everything, the commercial successes, the songs that are so eternal that people remember,” Raveena advised PTI.

The actor, who dominated the 90s cinema with hits similar to Mohra, Dilwale and Dulhe Raja whereas additionally making a mark in off-beat motion pictures similar to Daman, Satta and Shool, made her profitable streaming debut with Netflix sequence Aranyak in 2021. She additionally performed an necessary function in KGF: Chapter 2. “It feels good that there are people watching and appreciating you. I thank everyone who has been with me on this journey and supported me throughout,” the actor she stated.

The recognition of mainstream entertainers normally dominate an actor’s filmography, however Raveena feels “lucky” that her performance-oriented roles in Satta, Shool and Daman, for which she received the National Award for Best Actress, didn’t go unnoticed. “Huge commercial successes sometimes overshadow the body of work that you have done in realistic cinema because of the hit songs and films that people remember. I am so happy that an award like Padma Shri gives credit to the fact that I have done films like Satta, Daman, Matr and Shool.”

The actor stated it was a wrestle to combat stereotypes again and recalled how she needed to persuade Ram Gopal Varma to forged her in 1999 movie Shool.

Raveena, who finally performed a Bihari housewife to Manoj Bajpayee’s character within the movie, remembers Varma saying, “when I close my eyes, I can see you doing Aankhiyon Se Goli Maare”. “In the 90s, it was easy to get stereotyped. It was a conscious decision to start challenging myself as an actor. I was getting stuck in that stereotype, I had to break away from it. It was a conscious decision to stop signing glamorous roles.” Workwise, 2023 has many interesting projects in the pipeline for the actor.

She will be seen in Arbaaz Khan-backed social drama Patna Shukla, a romantic-comedy Gudchadhi with Sanjay Dutt and a show with Disney Hotstar.

“Gudchadhi is a candy romantic-comedy, Patna Shukla, which is topical and related to the issues that we face in our society. Then I’ve a present that I’m doing for Hotstar, which is a thriller, on Aranyak, I believe the writing work is happening and shortly we will probably be trying ahead to KGF 3,” Raveena stated.