Is Yami Gautam typecast as the slain wife?

In the four years that she’s been part of Bollywood, Yami Gautam has ended up playing the same role thrice — that of a brutalised wife, who is so missed by the hero, that he goes on a vendetta spree and seeks revenge.

After playing Ajay Devgn’s tortured, comatose wife in Action Jackson, and Varun Dhawan’s deceased wife in Badlapur, Yami is set to reprise the role in Sanjay Gupta’s Kaabil, where she plays Hrithik’s late wife.

We wonder how Yami got typecast into this role. While the actress did not comment, a filmmaker who has worked with her in the past says, “From what I hear, all three roles were first offered to other actresses, who refused the parts of the eliminated wife, thanks to limited footage for the character. Yami sportingly took on those parts. What’s wrong with playing the hero’s object of bereavement thrice?”