She now often plays the confidante to younger romantic leads. In a recent hit serial, her character—a widowed university professor—advises her teenage daughter about love, while also exploring her own hesitant, late-life romance with a retired colonel. This meta-role is fascinating: Apu, the icon of on-screen love, is now teaching the next generation how to love, both in the script and through her craft.
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