Shabana Azmi, who thinks moviegoers don’t frequently link her with comic characters, claims that “What’s Love Got To Do With It? lightheartedness is what drew her to the romantic comedy.
For his British feature film, Shekhar Kapur, who earlier directed Azmi’s 1983 family drama “Masoom,” also starred Lily James, Shazad Latif, Emma Thompson, and Sajal Aly.
“People tend to ignore my comedic work. I’m talking about as far back as Shyam Benegal’s “Mandi,” with the monkey chasing me and such. I also performed it in movies like “Honeymoon Adventures” and others. Although I have used humour, people don’t really think of me as a funny person “the actor, 72 years old