/> Does age matter in Bollywood? Perhaps yes when it comes to a female applying for the position of a leading heroine.

However, the moment she is willing to get into a saree and play an on-screen mom to a man who could be a few years junior or the same age or perhaps even a senior, all doors open up! After all it is nice to have a glamorous mother around on the silver screen.

Joginder Tuteja takes readers down the memory lane and picks up a few examples of mother-son, father-son or mother-daughter pairing where age didn't really matter!

Kidnap
This was as recent as last year. When 24 year old Minissha Lamba moved around the house, the town and the beach in her cargo pants, her mom Vidya Malvade wore smart business suits.

Still, she could never look convincing as her mother, courtesy her hockey stick act that was seen in Chak De India just a year before the release of Kidnap. Moreover, in real life, both women are not separated more than a decade in age!

13B
This isn't exactly a tale from the past. In fact this is something that has happened just this week as Poonam Dhillon made a comeback of sorts and is playing mother to Madhavan a.k.a. Maddy.

Well, give us such a glamorous on-screen mother anytime, especially so when the mother and son are distanced just 8 years apart! That's true, because while Maddy is 39 years old, Poonam Dhillon is only 47 herself!

Yalgaar
The most 'howlarious' act in the history of Hindi cinema has to be reserved for Yalgaar though.

In the film, Mukesh Khanna, who was fresh out of his 'Bheeshma Pitamaah' avtar ('Mahabharat'), got so carried away by his on screen persona that he willingly consented to playing a father to a middle aged man again.

Any hitch? Well, this middle aged man was none other than Feroz Khan who in real life was actually 19 years his senior!!!

Sooryavansham
Yalgaar was not an isolated case of an actor playing parent to someone who was actually older than him/her. In Sooryavansham, South actor Jayasudha played mother to Amitabh Bachchan in spite of being younger than him by 16 years.

Yes, she did play wife to Amitabh Bachchan in the same film (Big B was in a double role here). Still, seeing the actor call her 'Maa' hardly looked convincing especially in those days when he was aiming at making a transition to senior citizen roles.

Shakti
Amitabh Bachchan in fact holds the record for having actors born after him play his parents. In Shakti, Rakhi Gulzar played his mother in spite of being 5 years his junior. Ironically, just a year back, she had played his wife in Barsaat Ki Ek Raa

Mahaan
Other than Nirupa Roy, there were quite a few screen moms that Amitabh Bachchan experimented with. Waheeda Rehman was one such woman who played his mother in Mahaan. Yet again, the age difference between them was a mere 6 years though thankfully, she was elder to him at least. In the same film, she also played his wife since he was seen in a triple role.

Heroes
Same was the case with Preity Zinta and Salman Khan who were seen together as a couple in Heroes. However, when their son grew up to be another version of Salman Khan, Preity Zinta was nowhere to be seen.

Still, for the record, Preity who is 10 years junior to Salman Khan will get credited for playing his mother at least once in her career, albeit not being seen in the same frame!

Ab Tumhaare Hawale Watan Saathiyon
Yet another example in the recent times where a young woman has played mother to a much older man has been Ab Tumhaare Hawale Watan Saathiyon. The film saw Bobby Deol in a double role where one of them romanced Nagma while the other was seen as her son. Number of years that separated the two? 7 years!