Her last big screen outing was in 2010, but staying away from the cameras doesn’t affect an actor’s craft, said Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, whose new film, Jazbaa, releases in the UAE on Thursday.
“Today, I’m saying it with experience ... once an artiste, always an artiste,” Rai Bachchan said.
“People take a vacation, people take breaks ... we are actors, who make one film in two years, and we are asked ‘You are doing a film after so long, how do you feel?’ ...[However,] there are actors who do a film once in two years ... so this also happens,” she added.
Rai Bachchan, who was last seen on the big screen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish, plays a lawyer who must help a criminal in order to save her daughter in Jazbaa.
Given that she took a break from films to attend to her daughter Aaradhya, Rai Bachchan said she could relate to the role better after being a mother.
“I would’ve chosen this script even five years ago ... but the difference between then and today is that today I am a mother ... so the way I would’ve played this part five years ago would have been acting in a different way. whereas today I am a parent, a mother.
“So, when I played Anuradha Varma [the character], I do know what a mother is experiencing,” she said.
Jazbaa, which is a Hindi remake of South Korean movie Seven Days, has been produced by Essel Vision, White Feather Films and Viking Entertainment.
