Actress Ameesha Patel was last seen on the big screen in the 2023 film 'Gadar 2' where she reprised the role of Sakina opposite Sunny Deol's Tara Singh. The film was directed by Anil Sharma and also starred his son Utkarsh Sharma as Sakina and Tara Singh's child. Patel has once again stirred discussions by responding to her director who suggested she should embrace the age progression of her character by playing a mother-in-law. 

In an interview with Siddharth Kannan, Anil Sharma revealed that Patel resisted playing mother-in-law on screen during 'Gadar 2' . He also gave the example of the late Nargis Dutt playing a mother in Mother India at a very young age.