Published 23:07 IST, March 11th 2020

Neena Gupta, Ratna Pathak Shah, Seema Pahwa are Bollywood's cool, new-age mothers

Neena Gupta has proved that the times when mother roles were boring in Hindi films is long gone. Read more to know all about how moms in Bollywood have changed.

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Gone are days when role of Bollywood's mors were those belonging to character actors, with stereotypical dialogues and predictable parts to play in film after film. As times have changed, so has Indian cinema, and so have roles of 'maa'. mors in today's films may be older but are smarter than this generation and y can surely pack a punch or two with ir dialogues and sass. Here are some of coolest mors in Bollywood.

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Ratna Pathak Shah in Jaane Tu Yaa Jaane Na

In Jaane Tu Yaa Jaane Na, Imran Khan plays a chocolate boy in his debut film. Ratna Pathak Shah played Savitri, wife of a late Royal of kingdom of Ranjhore. Her role was anything but that of a sacrificing character of 'Savitri' from history of India. Savitri was a single woman living with her college-going son. ir relationship in film was more like friends. mor and son duo took turns in cooking, and she even discussed girls with him, setting him straight whenever he was wrong.

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Neena Gupta in Bhaai Ho

Bhaai Ho saw Neena Gupta playing role of a middle-d pregnant housewife. Her role was t that of a sassy mor, but surely was a courous one who set example for everyone in society. Neena Gupta will be seen furr in Rohit Shetty film Sooryavanshi playing role of Akshay’s mor.

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Seema Pahwa in Bareilly Ki Barfi

Seema Pahwa was Kriti San’s mor in Bareilly Ki Barfi, playing part of a mom trying to get her married to any suitable bachelor around. Seema Pahwa was a really cool mor because despite living in Bareilly and being mor of an only daughter, she shared everything with her daughter. She supports her daughter's choice matter who man she marries is, and wants her daughter to be happy even if she does t marry man she chose for her.

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23:06 IST, March 11th 2020