While as an actress she chose not to be an ‘accessory’ in any of her later films (like many of her contemporaries), when she turned producer with Clean Slate Filmz (that she co-owns with her brother, Karnesh Ssharma) she truly pushed the envelope and veered towards feminist storytelling. It took a lot of self-belief for me to do this as an actor and then as a producer because I was somehow swimming against the tide and challenging the notion of how women were so far portrayed on screen.” The actress had said, “I think I have been conscious enough to select roles and films that I felt could contribute towards changing the portrayal of women on screen. She brought a sense of self-awareness and integrity to the character, which other actresses in her place would have perhaps missed.įilmfare, Sharma had opened up about her very conscious choice of characters. Neither were they always depicted as the epitome of goodness (remember ‘ Pari’?) but they were and continue to be the representations of real women onscreen – they are women with jobs and ambitions, and more importantly, they are women with agency.Įven when she was doled out half-baked characters by big banner films like ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ in which the makers didn’t even bother to give her a surname, let alone a profession, Sharma added silent grace to the sassy Alizeh.
Sharma’s female characters rarely had big feminist spiels to deliver, or carefully curated moments in which they took on the world or talked about women’s issues. In ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’ Sharma played the role of a Discovery Channel film-maker. In ‘Phillauri’, Sharma was the female poet who wrote under a pseudonym in a pre-Independent India. In her 14 years of career, Sharma has had several victory laps at the box office (‘Sultan’ and ‘PK’) and her career trajectory has been punctuated by some very big duds (remember ‘Zero’ and ‘Bombay Velvet’?) too, but through it all, the actress seems to have been working towards something bigger and more important than mere box office success. From her dream debut in ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ in 2008 opposite Shah Rukh Khan in a Yash Raj Films production to her upcoming venture – ‘Chakda Xpress’ under her own film banner, Clean Slate Filmz – Sharma has deliberately travelled off the beaten road. It is this enterprising spirit of the actress that makes her markedly different from her contemporaries even today.
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Back then, she offered her services for free and although she didn’t expect many to turn up, people proved her wrong and did show up to avail her services. Once, the young Sharma even started a beauty parlour business. When Anushka Sharma was a kid, she would often organise free libraries and events in her colony.
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