India, Nov. 23 -- Bollywood actor Shefali Shah is currently garnering praise for her performance in Delhi Crime Season 3. In the beginning of her career, the actor essayed the role of Amitabh Bachchan's wife and Akshay Kumar's mother in the 2005 film Waqt: The Race Against Time. In a recent interview with Times Now, Shefali admitted that playing Akshay's mother was a setback in her career.

Shefali revealed that taking on the role in Waqt came as a professional setback, and shared what her husband, the film's director and producer, Vipul Amrutlal Shah, told her at the time: "[My] husband told me, don't do it. Amitji suggested, 'Why don't you take Shefali for this?' and then he was like, 'I don't think she'll fit it.' One day, I put powder...