‘Actresses Have A Shelf Life’: Shefali Shah Calls Out Ageism In Bollywood | Bollywood News
Last Updated:December 19, 2025, 11:12 IST Interestingly, this comes at a time when Ranveer Singh (40) has also been facing backlash for romancing 20-year-old actor Sara Arjun in Dhurandhar. Shefali Shah questions why heroines are mostly cast between ages 18 to 25. Shefali Shah has called out ageism in Bollywood. In a recent interview, the actress questioned why it is okay for an actor in the film industry to be of any age when actresses have a ‘shelf life’. She argued that everyone wants to cast a heroine who is between 18 to 25 years of age and called it “sad”. “It should not be the norm, but sadly, our industry is about ‘hero, heroine, villain’ and hero has to be whatever number of years actually, but heroine has to only be between 18 to 25. That is very important. She can’t age. She has a shelf life,” she told Hindustan Times. “There I went and played a character which was much older than me and I did it because, as an actor the point …
