Suhasini Maniratnam
, the wife of the ace filmmaker Maniratnam, makes her Bollywood debut in the movie, “
Waiting
.” She is performing as Naseeruddin Shah’s wife.
Anu Menon
directs the film. Kalki Kochelin plays an eminent role in the movie along with Naseeruddin.
Arjun Mathur
and
Rajat Kapoor
are also offered with good characters. Suhasini, who has acted in more than fifty films in all the South Indian languages, is making her Bollywood debut at her 54. When Suhasini was provided a role in pairing Naseer, she was shocked to a greater extent, says Anu Menon. As Suhasini has not spoken Hindi frequently, she wrote her dialogues in Tamil and came fresh with the dialogues in Hindi as a native Hindi speaker, added Anu. To your information, Suhasini is the niece of Padma Shri Kamal Haasan. She has bagged the National Award for the best actress in 1986 for the movie,
Sindhu Bhairavi
. “Waiting” will be screened at the Dubai International Film Festival, which will be held from 9th December to 16th.