Simran is turning an onscreen mama

After giving three back-to-back flops in the south and post her unsuccessful stint in Bollywood, Tamil cinema’s former glamour girl Simran is turning into an on-screen mom. And she isn’t complaining.

“I don’t mind playing mom roles if they have something special. Gautham Menon offered me a good role as Surya’s mother in Vaaranam Aayiram and I am also doing Hari-directed Seval with Bharat in the lead. Both the roles appealed to me,” Simran, who took a short break from acting after tying the knot with Deepak Bagga in 2003, told IANS. Success eluded Simran when she tried to make a comeback after her son’s birth in 2005. She featured in Tamil film Kicha, Vayasu 16, Malayalam movie Heart Beats and two Telugu films — Okka Magadu and John Apparao opposite Jai Akash, Indrajith and Balakrishna and newcomer Krishna Bhagwan respectively, but none of them fared well. When she experimented with TV as the anchor of a Tamil reality show, it backfired. Simran owes her career to Jaya Bachchan, who spotted her in the Superhit Muqabla on Doordarshan and offered her the leading role in her home production Tere Mere Sapne.