A SUITABLE WOMAN

Starting her career with the over-the-top commercial fare, making her presence felt there, then achieving glory in serious cinema to 30 years later, carving a new niche in the OTT arena with A Suitable Boy, Tabu has done all that and more. She has reunited with Mira Nair once again after The Namesake (2006). The intervening 14 years didn’t prove detrimental to their camaraderie. It’s as if they never stopped working together. Tabu has a way of making each role her own and watching her in , it feels like she was born to play Saeeda Bai. She worked with Shahid Kapoor in (2014) and six years later finds herself working with his younger brother Ishaan Khatter, whom she finds a bundle of energy. She talks about old bonds and new in this candid chat. Excerpts…