After more than 30 years in showbiz, Zenobia Shroff has a mainstream breakout with “The Big Sick,” playing Kumail Nanjiani’s mother. The actress, an accomplished classical Indian dancer and sketch comedy artist, has been featured in several indie movies in Hollywood and Bollywood. She also teaches inner-city kids dance and movement. Shroff got the part in a circuitous way: 10 years ago, she auditioned for, but didn’t get, a role in Mira Nair’s “Monsoon Wedding” but casting director Loveleen Tandon remembered her, and told “Big Sick” casting director Gayle Keller about her. Shroff is featured in a half dozen scenes, including the ending in which she doesn’t speak but says volumes with her expression and the turn of her head.
“I have grown up surrounded by women like Sharmeen [Kumail Nanjiani’s mother]. There is not a mother on the Indian subcontinent who does not want her son to marry within their religion or community and get a ‘real...
“I have grown up surrounded by women like Sharmeen [Kumail Nanjiani’s mother]. There is not a mother on the Indian subcontinent who does not want her son to marry within their religion or community and get a ‘real...
- 12/8/2017
- by Shalini Dore
- Variety - Film News
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