• Zeenat Aman played a variety of grey characters in Bollywood in the 1970s and 80s.
• She believes these parts defined her path in Indian cinema. 
• Even as a drug user she was accepted by the audience, which prompted directors to create unique characters for her.

Zeenat Aman, who played a variety of grey characters during her time as a leading lady in Bollywood in the 1970s and 1980s, has said that she believes these parts defined her path in Indian cinema. She said that even as a drug user, she was accepted by the audience, which prompted directors to create unique characters for her.

Zeenat said, “I was accepted by the audiences at that time in characters which had grey shades, whether it was a drug addict, or someone who died of an overdose… There was an audience acceptance. Subsequently, writers wrote parts for me where it was a good bad girl, good girl and other kinds of roles that did well.”

“My journey in Indian cinema started when I was a teenager and I stopped working when I became a mother. Along the way, there were many milestones. I had the good fortune of working with a lot of actor-directors like Dev Anand, Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Manoj Kumar, Amjad Khan, Feroz Khan and Sanjay Khan. All these filmmakers were actors themselves. So they brought that extra bit of creativity to the table.”

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