Shefali Shah feels she deserved, and got the National Award for her performance in Rituparno Ghosh's The Last Lear rather than the Anil Kapoor-produced Gandhi My Father. She was nominated for both the performances. Shefali mentions that it was such an honour to be nominated for two performances but Last Lear was much more difficult. Playing a real-life character, Kasturba and that too with an emotional and chronological graph that took her from young to old, gave her a lot of space to create her character.
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