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Remember the archetypal filmi mom — teary-eyed widow in a white sari? Nirupa Roy and Achla Sachdev eminently played the all-sacrificing mom. Now fast track to the present times. Meet the new-age mothers. Designer wear, laptops and an attitude to match.

If Bollywood has transformed so has television. And leading the change in Maya Alagh, the eighties Oh-Ho girl who inspired a generation to switch from the normal to a clove-flavoured toothpaste.

"In the earlier times there were just two kinds of roles. Either sob through the film or do the scheming Lalita Pawar act," says Maya who is a doctor by profession and wife of a leading corporate hot-shot, Sunil Alagh, managing director of Britannia Industries.

Thanks to women like her, things have started changing dramatically. "My serial Kavita on DD Metro is a complete antithesis of a traditional mother's role," says Maya who also recently made her debut as a host in a daily half-hour capsule called Ardhangini.

Maya has played diverse roles in films but it is TV that she is best associated with. "I elected to become a modern mom and accepted only those kind of roles," says Maya who's only made an exception with royal characters in epics like Tipu Sultan and Noorjehan.

Indeed, television has opened a whole new vista for Maya Alagh and actresses of her ilk who have come to define the new-age mom. A couple of decades ago people would have been shocked out of their seats. But then times change. And so do moms.