Most Underrated · Women
Ratna Pathak Shah
रत्ना पाठक शाह
“One of India's great comic actors, cast almost exclusively as somebody's amused mother.”
- Screen debut
- 1981
- Best in
- Lipstick Under My Burkha (2016)
- Also see
- Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na · Kapoor & Sons · Nil Battey Sannata · Sarabhai vs Sarabhai · Thappad
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The case
Lipstick Under My Burkha gave her a 55-year-old woman with a secret sexual life and she played it without a single apology or wink. The performance sat in a censorship fight instead of an awards race. Her comic work is so effortless that people mistake it for personality.
Where to start
Begin with Lipstick Under My Burkha (2016). Then work through Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na, Kapoor & Sons, Nil Battey Sannata.
See how we defined “underrated” and why some obvious names are missing in our methodology essay.
In the canon