India, Jan. 21 -- Shefali Shah has been in the industry for over three decades, but it's with her show Delhi Crime that she found recognition in the leading space. The show has had three seasons and was amongst the first shows to have a female actor from the '90s lead a successful series. Post the show, there were actors like Sushmita Sen, Raveena Tandon and Madhuri Dixit who also led their own successful shows. The actor admits that the recent times have seen a major shift for the better in terms of parts written for women.

Ask her if she feels proud to have been amongst the first ones to have brought about this change in the industry and she says, "Somebody else has paved the path for me. There is Shabana Azmi ji, Smita Patil ji who've...