while many actors may think twice before taking up a role where they have to play mom to an actor just a few years younger than them narayani shashtri believes otherwise the actor who is currently seen playing a mother to naagin 4 actor vijayendra kumeria in aapki nazron ne samjha has no qualms in doing so as an actor i have never really taken the age of the actors around me very seriously also when im portraying the role of an onscreen mother im simply playing a character so in the show im playing the role of a mother who has a son of vijayendras age so it all fits well also this show isnt like other shows which have the typical vampactor formula but it has a feelgood factor to it my role isnt just all about playing the mother but also a strongminded businesswoman says narayanitalking about her equation with her onscreen son vijayendra she says we both gelled instantly as there were no insecurities ego clashes or awkwardness between us i think this made it easier for us to translate the ease on screen as the story revolves around the motherson duothere are many mediums available for tv actors to experimenthaving been a part of the tv industry for close to two decades has her criteria to pick roles changed a lot over the years narayani shares absolutely not it is still the same when i started i took up shows that excited and challenged me as an actor and also made me happy to play that character i still see these things before choosing a new project however as an actor you have to take up roles that help you to diversify you cant be doing the same show which you did when you started 20 years agonarayani who has been a part of both tv and ott mediums believes that the latter is a great platform for actors who want to explore genres that arent possible on tv the target audience for tv is different from those who are regulars on various ott platforms i believe that tv actors who have always wanted to do something different in terms of exploring genres and characters now have the opportunity to do so on ott platforms she saysim travelling between goa and mumbai and having the best of both worldsthe actress and her painter husband had moved to goa just before the pandemic in a quest to lead a more peaceful and quiet life she tells us i will be completing two years of living in goa soon we moved to goa as we both wanted to break away from the fastpaced lives that we were living in mumbai and we also wanted a bigger space for all our pets goa seemed the perfect place and ive thoroughly enjoyed this change of paceso how is she managing it all we were both prepared and have had conversations about managing things if i got a show and