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By George! That’s Naseeruddin Shah preparing to play an aging superstar. As for serious pursuits, there’s theatre to turn back on.
At sixty, Naseeruddin Shah is the perfect epitome of the adage ‘Never say never’. Whether it was playing a villager and grooving to Oye Oye in Tridev, or essaying the role of a ghazal singer who is an undercover agent in Sarfarosh or giving voice to the angst-ridden middle-class Indian citizen in A Wednesday!, Shah has time and again tread new grounds and enthralled us with his acting prowess.
After acting in several films over the last three decades, this year he has decided to take a break from cinema and dedicate himself solely to theatre. He says with a resigned shrug, “I’m tired and bored of films. There is no hope on the horizon for Hindi cinema. For one Dibakar Banerjee or Anurag Kashyap, we have hundreds of filmmakers who dole out mediocre stuff in the name of entertainment. I did four movies last year and all of them were big disappointments.