Shefali Shah

• Sofali Shah was brought up in a lower-middle-class family in Mumbai.
• Indian actress Shefali has spoken about her childhood days.
• Her favorite place was Vakola (Santacruz East) and then Mahim (Fisherman Colony).

Shefali Shah is an Indian actress in film, television, and theatre who mostly appears in independent Hindi films. Respected for her acting prowess, she has received several accolades, including a National Film Award.

Shefali Shah recently thought about her childhood in Mumbai and remembered that she didn’t have a permanent place to live. The actor said that she was from a lower-middle-class family that moved around a lot before her father got a job at the Reserve Bank of India.

Shefali told Mashable India about her childhood in a recent conversation, “I was brought up in Santa Cruz, but actually we moved a lot of houses. I come from a lower-middle-class family. When I was growing up, my dad’s job at RBI wasn’t permanent yet. So we didn’t have a permanent home. There were times when he would request my uncle or someone to let me and my mom stay there. I was very little, I don’t remember a lot of it. And then he would stay in a garage or with colleagues or friends. So that was Vakola (Santacruz East).”

“Then there was Mahim…the Fisherman Colony there. And at that Fisherman Colony, there was my uncle, my aunt, dad, mom, and me. And it was a kholi, with a kitchen, and the bathroom, which was I think three times or four times this car.”

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• Shefali Shah is an Indian actress.
• The chorus for boycotting Bollywood films has been growing louder.
• Several films such as Laal Singh Chaddha, Darlings, Raksha Bandhan, and Liger have faced calls for boycott.

Shefali Shah is an Indian actress in Hindi films, television, and web series. After making her film debut with a minor role in the 1995 drama Rangeela, she played a supporting role in the crime film Satya.

Over the past few months, more and more people have been calling for a boycott of Bollywood movies. In the past few years, there have been calls to not see movies like Laal Singh Chaddha, Darlings, Raksha Bandhan, and Liger. On Twitter, the hashtag “boycott Bollywood” is used a lot. But actress Shefali Shah thinks it’s just a passing fad that won’t last.

She says, “It’s a trend. I don’t think it’s long-lasting,” she said. When asked about the notion that Bollywood is ‘dying’, the actor said, “I don’t think it’s possible. Films are a culture like cricket. It can’t die…it can’t. People have their point of view, they have their opinions, but there is also a lot of love and appreciation that we get. I think we should just take it in our stride and just say ‘we tried’ and we move on.”

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