The legendary playback singer has been cast as an elderly woman abandoned by her only son and forced to live with her daughter's family, New Kerala reports.
She told the site: "I connected so very strongly with it as a mother and a human being even though it was so far removed from my own life and experience."
Bhosle, 77, added that she could not let the role in Maaee pass by after reading the script.
Over the course of a career spanning nearly 70 years, Bhosle has sung on more than 1,000 Bollywood films.
