While many actresses are spending millions and millions of rupees to look younger, Tabu has refused to look younger on screen for her film The Legend of Kunal opposite Amitabh Bachchan.

Tabu plays wife to Emperor Ashoka in the film which is potrayed by Big B and there are few flashback scenes in the film which require both Big B and Tabu to look very young.



Director, Chandraprakash Dwivedi discloses, “Before Tabu told no to looking younger, we had planned to make both Amitji and Tabu lose years on screen. With Amitji, the process of looking younger for the flashback would’ve been much more complicated. But we had consulted makeup artistes from abroad and they had assured us that it could be done. With Tabu, the process would’ve been much easier because she can look like a 20-year-old without prosthetic support. But she refused. ‘Take a younger artist to play my character’s young portion,’ Tabu suggested. When she opted out, we naturally had to change plans of making Amitji look younger.”

Dwivedi says, “We haven’t found the actors to play the young Amitji and Tabu yet. But we aren’t worried because they occupy a very small portion of the narrative. And also the shooting starts at the end of 2009.”

The Legend of Kunal is the tale about the relationship between Emperor Ashoka and his son Kunal.