How can we justify Dia Mirza's statement that older actors are bizarre with young actresses?

Rajinikanth was 65 years old and Sonakshi Sinha was around 27. Thats 38 years. She was younger than Rajinis daughters who were 33 and 29.

Most of the audience in TN.did not find it bizzare. Yes the movie was awful but i didnt actually even think about the age gap.

Rajini could play 35–40 even at 65

Ajith was 47 years old. Kajal was 31 years old. The difference was 16 years. Less than.half of the difference between Rajini and Sonakshi. Yet i remember thinking - Ajith looks like her father in the scenes.

Ajith looks 47 and is 47

Its called perception.

Not everyone knows how old the actors are. On.the Screen, the Actor is a character and the actress is a character. Its the characters whose chemistry is crucial, not the actors.

Ajith (41) and Trisha (28) clicked in this movie. Their characters were apt. It was Vinayak and not Ajith people saw. Vinayak was apt for Trisha.

Ajith plays 37–40 at 41 but the story creates a believable pairing as the age gap.fits.

Kamal was 53 -54 yrs and Trisha 26 - Yet Major Mannar (Character) looks perfectly apt with Ambujakshi (Character).

He plays 38–42 though he is 53–54.

Here Andrea is 29 and Kamal is 60. Nearly the same age difference but here he looks like an Old Lecher seducing a young girl.

Here Kamal looks 60 and plays 60.

Prabhu was 44 and Ramya Krishna 29 at the time of this movie. Yet Prabhu played 32–35 and somehow managed to achieve it. The pairing was believable.

So in the end:

Its the Character and not the Acto. If the Characters are apt, nothing looks weird. If the Characters are not apt, everything looks weird.

Actors like Rajkumar played romantic roles with heroines half his age yet nobody realized this as the characters were apt and his charcter could play 35–40 even though he was himself 65.

Meanwhile Sivaji played romantic roles aged 50 but looked 55 and so looked like the heroines father.

I have used Tamil Cinema because the age differences are much more in Tamil Cinema than Bollywood.

Which actors win the National Film Award at a young age?

 There are several actors and actresses who won the National Film Awards at a young age, they are:

Monisha Unni:

She won the National Film Award for Best Actress at a very young age of around 15 to16 years in 1986 for the Malayalam movie Nakhakshathangal.

Unfortunately she passed away at a very young age of 21 years in 1992 in a car accident.

Shoba:

She had won the National Film Award for Best Actress at the age of just 17 years for the Tamil film Pasi.

She also passed away at a very young age of around 17 years in 1980, she took her life by herself.

Riddhi Sen:

He won National Film Award for Best Actor in 2018 at a young age of around 20 years for the Bengali film Nagarkirtan.

In this film he did the role of Parimal, a trans woman from rural Bengal. Riddhi Sen is a Bengali actor who also worked in some Hindi films.

Smita Patil:

She won her first National Film Award among her 2 National Awards at the age of 22 years in 1977 for the Hindi film Bhumika.

Shabana Azmi:

She has won 5 National Film Awards for Best Actress. For the first time she won the award at the age of of 24 years in 1974 for the Hindi film Ankur.

Suhasini:

She won the National Film Award for Best Actress at the age of 24 years in 1985 for the Tamil film Sindhu Bhairavi.

Tabu:

She won her first National Film Award for Best Actress at the age of 25 years in 1996 for the Hindi film Maachis.

Mithun Chakraborty:

He received National Film Award as a Best Actor at the age of 26 years for his debut film Mrigayaa in which he did the role of Ghinua, which was released in 1976.

Priyanka Chopra:

She won the National Film Award for Best Actress at the age of 26 years in 2008 for Bollywood film Fashion.

Keerthy Suresh:

She won the National Film Award for Best Actress at the age of 26 years in 2018 for the Telugu film Mahanati.

Rekha:

She won the National Film Award for Best Actress at the age of 27 years in 1981 for the film Umrao Jaan.

Dhanush :

He won the National Film Award for Best Actor at the age of 27 years for the film Aadukalam which was released in 2010.

Kamal Haasan:

He won the National Film Award for Best Actors for 3 times. For the first time he won at the age of 28 years for the Tamil film Moondram Pirai which was released in 1982.

Alia Bhatt:

She received National Film Award for Best Actress at the age of 28 years in 2021 for the film Gangubhai Kathiawadi.

Naseeruddin Shah:

He won his first National Film Award among 3 National Film Awards at the age of 29 years for the Hindi film Sparsh which was released in 1979 in which he did the role of Anirudh Parmar.

Ajay Devgn:

He won the National Film Award for the first time at the age of 29 years for the film Zakham which was released in 1998.

Rajkumar Rao:

He won the National Film Award for Best Actor at the age of 29 years in the year 2013 for the film Shahid.

Vicky Kaushal:

He won the National Film Award for Best Actor at the age of 30 years for the film Uri: The Surgical Strike which was released in 2018.

The above are the actors and actresses who won the National Film Award at the age of before 30 years.

Actress Monisha Unni is the youngest actress who received at 15 or 16 years and Riddhi Sen is youngest actor to receive National Film Award at the age of 29 years so far.

As a child artist, the youngest to win the National Film Award is Treesha Thosar, she won the award at the age of just 4 years in 2023 for the Marathi film Naal 2.

Here one can remember that the veteran actor Kamal Haasan as a child artist won the National Film Award at a very young age of 4 or 5 years for the Tamil film Kalathur Kannamma which was released in 1960.

Even there may be many other child artists who proved their talents in acting and won National Awards when they were around 10 years.

Which actor has worked a lot at a young age?

 The best example for the actor who worked a lot at a young age is, the actor began her acting at the age of 4 and she directly became a heroine without taking a break. She is none other than Sridevi.

In an interview Sridevi said that she missed out school and college life, because she got into the film industry and worked without a gap, from a child artist she became a leading actress. She didn't get time to think.

She said in an interview in 2013, “I lost out on going to school and college life, but I got into the film industry and worked without a gap, from child actor, I went straight to heroine. There was no time to think and I was grateful for it.”

In 1967 Sridevi made her acting debut at the age of 4 with the Tamil film Kandhan Karunai. As a child artist she worked in several films in many languages including Hindi film Rani Mera Naam in 1972.

When she was 12 years old she performed an adolescent role in the Bollywood film Julie in 1975, as an younger sister of the leading actress Lakshmi.

When she was 13 years old she did her first female leading role in the Tamil film Moondru Mudichu in 1976 under the direction of K. Balachander alongside Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth.

After that she had acted with Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth in several films.

Since 1976, she starred as a leading actress in numerous films in Tamil, Telugu and in some Malayalam films.

She made her Bollywood debut as a leading heroine in 1979 with the film film Solva Sawan, at that time she was 16 years old, which was the remake of her Tamil film 16 Vayathinile which was released in 1977 and its Telugu remake Padaharella Vayasu was released in 1978.

At a very young age she acheived big success in South Cinema, she starred opposite big actors like N. T. Rama Rao, A. Nageshwar Rao and Krishna in Telugu and also acted alongside Sivaji Ganesan in Tamil films.

In Hindi she became popular in 1983 with the film Himmatwala opposite Jeetendra. At that time she was around 20 years old. With this film she established herself in Bollywood. She acted in 16 films with Jeetendra.

She also starred opposite Rajesh Khanna in a number of films like Naya Kadam in 1984, Masterji in 1985 and Nazrana in 1987.

Nagina in 1986 and Mr. India in 1987 made her a big star in Bollywood. When she was around 23 or 24 years she became a female superstar of Bollywood. Her successful journey continued untill 1997.

After her marriage with Boney Kapoor in 1996, she took a break from acting for the first time in her life right since she was 4 years old . She continuously worked in the film industry for 30 years from 1967 to 1997.

When she was 34 years she took a hiatus of 15 years from acting. In her career she had acted in more than 300 films but after that she re-entered the film industry, she appeared in 4 to 5 films. So in 30 years of her early career she acted in maximum number of films.

Hence in all ways Sridevi is the actor who worked a lot in her young age, her total number of films is proof for that. She is such a great actress that one can rarely get to see in the film industry.