It may be one of the most iconic films on her résumé, but Richa Chadha says that the success of Gangs Of Wasseypur (2012) — that marked its seventh anniversary on Saturday — posed an unanticipated problem for her.

So convinced were filmmakers by her spirited act of Nagma Khatoon — the wife of Manoj Bajpai's character Sardar and mother to Nawazuddin Siddiqui's character Faizal — that the actor, then 25, was promptly stereotyped as an on-screen mother.