Tabu: I don't find a reason to be on Twitter or Facebook

Hits and flops won’t affect Tabu’s career: Shabana Azmi.

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Did Tabu — who turns 45 on Friday — shoot her career in the foot by playing mom to stars like Shahid Kapoor in ‘Haider’ and Katrina Kaif in ‘Fitoor’? Not really, feels her illustrious aunt Shabana Azmi, who says Tabu’s career is impervious to dips and curves.

In a gender-biased film industry like Bollywood, while leading men may continue playing lover boys until they die (and Dev Anand is an embodiment of the patriarchal proclivities that eternally govern the casting rules of Bollywood), a leading lady seemingly loses her sheen once she gets married or hits 40, whichever happens first.

Where does Tabu’s career go next?

In the past few years, there has been a gradual shift in her positioning from leading lady to ‘character’ actress. In the Salman Khan starrer “Jai Ho”, she played Salman’s sister. Leading ladies in Bollywood don’t do that unless it’s a film like “Josh” where Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan played twins, but were anything but sibling-like in their conduct.