Kiran Rao open to acting offers

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Filmstar Aamir Khan’s wife Kiran Rao, who has completed her directorial debut Dhobi Ghat, revealed here that she is open to acting in films, if she gets a good offer.
“If there is a good enough acting part, I would love to act because I genuinely love acting – more theatre, I have never done films. I like, I used to love to act, as I haven’t acted in a long time,” said Rao, who has acted on stage.
Praising her husband for his support, Rao said, “Aamir is a really regular, normal sort of guy. He is very down-to-earth and very humble. He loves meeting. We have a very equal relationship.”
She made it clear that she does not feel the pressure to behave as the regular star wife from Bollywood. “He loved me for who I was. He knew I wasn’t a glamorous actor or model. I knew it would be easy to confim to the idea of a typical star wife. I have no interest in big Mumbai parties or dressing up and looking glamourous. I am a working woman and I don’t want to just be an adjunct. He has never asked me to fit into a box or suit someone else’s idea of what his wife should be,” she said.
Dhobi Ghat is set in Mumbai and centres around Shai, a young Indian woman who returns to Mumbai from the United States. The film is about her interactions with a reclusive artist Arun, played by Rao’s husband Aamir Khan, and Munna, played by Pratiek, a lower-class laundryman who dreams to become a Bollywood actor.
The film deals with the class system in India and Rao said that class is “culturally ingrained in the fabric of our society.”
For Rao, while growing up in Kolkata, watching Bollywood films was not on agenda as her parents did not want their children to watch them.