I deserved National Award for Lear, not Gandhi: Shefali

Anil Kapoor won���t like this. But Shefali Shah feels she deserved, and got the National Award for her performance in Rituparno Ghosh���s The Last Lear rather than the Anil Kapoor-produced Gandhi My Father. She was nominated for both the performances.
Many felt she should have won it for Feroz Khan���s Gandhi My Father. Shefali disagrees. ���It was such an honour to be nominated for two performances.But Last Lear was much more difficult. Playing a real-life character, Kasturba and that too with an emotional and chronological graph that took me from young to old, gave me a lot of space to create my character. In The Last Lear I had to establish my character within a specific setting and a time frame. I think it���s far easier playing older characers.���
Initially, her husband was supposed to co-star with her. There���s another guy played by Sumeet Raghavan in Shefali���s character���s life. It was role that Shefali���s husband was supposed to play. ���Barnali keenly wanted Vipul to do it. But there was no way he was going to go back to acting after giving it up on stage many years ago,��� says the actress.
Kuch Love Jaisa is a love gift from Vipul to his wife who has just won the National Award for her performance in Rituparno Ghosh���s The Last Lear.
Right now Shefali is looking forward to the release of Kuch Love Jaisa. ���Thankfully I play a character my own age. Though it���s a small film I know Vipul will market it like any of his other films.���