Aruna Irani Emotionally Talks About Her Father- "It Used To Hurt Me..."

2 years ago

Versatile Bollywood actress Aruna Irani has turned a year older today. On her birthday, check out this throwback interview when Aruna emotionally talked about her father.

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00:00 I came in the industry because I'm an uneducated woman.

00:03 So naturally, I couldn't work in an office or a job.

00:08 And my father always used to feel that if my elder daughter had been my son,

00:13 then my family would have been in a worse situation.

00:17 My age is over.

00:19 So at least I would have died in peace that my elder son would have taken care of my family.

00:24 So this always hurt me.

00:26 Why can't a girl do this? Why can't a girl do this?

00:30 Why do you have this wrong notion that only a son can do this for the family and a daughter can't do anything?

00:35 So I wanted to prove myself always.

00:38 So my dreams...

00:41 And I felt the best thing when my father died.

00:44 Just before I wake, he was sitting in the balcony.

00:47 And that time I had just took a new fiat, which was a second-hand fiat.

00:53 It was just 9000 rupees.

00:56 I had just bought that car.

00:58 My father used to stand in the gallery and see.

01:00 He was very happy. He said, "My daughter's car. My daughter's car."

01:03 If somebody would pass by and stand and lean on it, he would send somebody,

01:07 "Go, go. Look at him. He's standing on our car. Ask him to move.

01:11 Ask him to do this. Ask him to do that."

01:14 And before dying, he said one thing. I'm so happy.

01:18 I don't feel regretted. My daughter can take care of my children.

01:23 I'm dying peacefully. That was more than enough for me.

01:27 I'm so sure it was.

01:29 Thank God.

01:30 Asha, tell us that we were a little back on stage.

01:37 You were with your father when you started working.

01:41 Yeah, I started.

01:43 Tell us a little about the stage in the sense that

01:46 what was your best experience on stage?

01:51 No.

01:52 What was your experience?

01:54 And which is the play that you still are very fond of playing that particular role till today?

02:01 What used to happen with me was that my father...

02:04 Because I was about hardly 16, he didn't give me a role.

02:08 But every day I was asked to watch every show.

02:11 If Aruna doesn't come tomorrow, I have to stand in her place.

02:15 If Surekha doesn't come, I have to stand in her place.

02:17 If Bhavna doesn't come, I have to stand in her place.

02:19 So I was supposed to sit down and muck up everybody's line.

02:22 Everybody's line.

02:24 So I would sit down. I would sit down in the play every day.

02:27 I would say her dialogue, her dialogue, her dialogue, so that I would remember.

02:32 The first time I appeared on stage,

02:35 our queen of the stage, Sarita Joshi, whom you know,

02:41 she's a very famous and excellent actress.

02:45 Her problem was that she had some miscarriage that day.

02:49 She couldn't get up. She was aborted.

02:52 Naturally, she can't.

02:54 And this happened in the morning and the show in the evening.

02:57 So she waited till 2 o'clock.

03:00 She might be able to perform, but she was not able to stand.

03:04 So what to do? Call Aruna.

03:06 Where is she? She left.

03:08 In the script play, I was sweating.

03:10 I couldn't understand.

03:13 And she was such a senior actress, Sarita ji.

03:17 To play her role, even though I couldn't stand in front of her,

03:22 and to play her role, and for the first time appearing on the stage,

03:25 I was dead.

03:26 But I was told, "Dialogue, come on."

03:29 As soon as the entry came,

03:31 you say, "What are you doing? Where are you going?

03:34 Why are you going?"

03:36 You speak lines like this.

03:38 My heart was beating so fast.

03:40 "What are you doing? Where are you going? Why are you going?"

03:42 People could not follow my lines.

03:44 I used to speak so fast.

03:46 Because my heart was beating so fast.

03:48 I could not forget that experience.

03:50 My co-artists used to say, "One minute, one minute."

03:53 Now they understood that the public is not following what she is saying

03:58 because she is saying it too fast.

04:01 Because she is getting heart-pounding.

04:03 They said, "One minute, one minute. What are you saying?

04:05 What are you trying to say? Will you please tell me quietly?"

04:08 So, I got scared.

04:11 "What are you doing? Why are you doing it? And why are you going there?"

04:14 Then I understood that I am going wrong here.

04:18 That was my first experience on stage.

04:20 And that's how we did it.

04:22 This was a very long story from stage to screen.

04:28 And how did you appear on screen?

04:30 When you appeared on screen, over the years, we saw you in different roles.

04:35 As an artist, as an artist, as a mother.

04:39 As a mother.

04:41 As glamorous. All, all.

04:44 How did you justify? I mean, how did you fit yourself?

04:48 I mean, how did you put yourself in that?

04:50 And then come out of it easily and go back to it again.

04:54 And not let it overshadow your life, your lifestyle.

04:58 Yeah.

04:59 Many people ask me, "With such a glamorous,

05:03 such a vampish, such a comedy image,

05:05 you are a mother. How could you do it?"

05:08 My biggest support for that has been my fans.

05:12 They really accepted me.

05:15 They accepted me in that role.

05:17 And if they didn't like me,

05:20 then naturally I wouldn't have been successful.

05:22 As you remember, for 35 years,

05:25 Pranab sir played only one role, of a villain.

05:28 35 years of his career, he did only one character.

05:32 And after that, overnight, he did a film, 'Ukkaar'.

05:36 Which changed his total image.

05:39 And then he started doing all good character roles.

05:43 So, I got the grace of God and my fans.

05:49 So, everything happened.

05:51 Which did you cherish the most?

05:53 The character which you cherished portraying the most?

05:57 Which character you thought, "Oh, this really suits me."

06:00 "I think I was just made for this."

06:02 No, I cannot say.

06:05 Because comedy roles, when I do,

06:07 I feel that I am a very funny person in my personal life also.

06:11 And, if you say, "Vampish role."

06:14 When I really lose my temper, I am no more less than a vamp.

06:18 Let me tell you, I am very wild. Very wild.

06:23 I am a very emotional person.

06:25 Emotional means,

06:28 there is one strange thing about me.

06:31 If you say, "You will bring a mountain of sorrows in front of me."

06:35 That will never make me cry.

06:37 I can fight that fight by banging.

06:40 But, if you tell me, "Aruna, sorry, I said that by mistake."

06:44 Pouring tears, I start crying.

06:47 But, that makes me cry. I am a very emotional person, basically.

06:51 So, I don't feel that I felt any difficulty.

06:57 I could cherish anywhere, any role I could cherish.

07:00 Doing it, performing it.

07:02 So, I didn't have any difficulty.

07:04 There was only one thing that was difficult.

07:06 Feeling shy. I could never feel shy.

07:08 When someone says, "Director, you feel shy."

07:13 In my younger days, the heroine would feel shy when she sees the hero.

07:18 I used to sweat to feel shy.

07:21 I could never do it.

07:23 I don't know why I didn't feel shy.

07:25 There was only one problem.

07:28 Yeah.

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Aruna Irani Emotionally Talks About Her Father- "It Used To Hurt Me..."

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