00:00Damini, you almost didn't do, isn't it?
00:03I mean, you got signed for Damini, but that was one controversy about you that I remember.
00:10And now that your kids have grown up, I am going to say that you were single and everybody liked you very much.
00:19But Rajkumar Santoshi is a director who liked you so much that he came and proposed to you.
00:26He wanted to marry you.
00:28Isn't this true?
00:30He proposed to you.
00:32Yes, this is the truth.
00:35And another truth is that when Damini's controversy happened,
00:40because of which he felt that he would not be able to complete the film with me.
00:46He wanted to take another heroine.
00:48And then there was a reconciliation and the producers' council, the artists' council,
00:52the senior artists' association, everyone got together and celebrated.
00:59That day, we all took a vow that we will not talk about this controversy again.
01:07We will bury it right there and we will make a good film.
01:12And that positivity from their side and from the team's side, from my side,
01:17that we made such a good film with so much dedication.
01:22It's one of your career's best.
01:24My career's best. As a director, for him to leave aside everything else and give his best to the movie,
01:32I will say hats off.
01:35So if Santoshi, of course, now he's also married, his children are grown up,
01:41his daughter even did a film.
01:43So if he offers you a film, will you do it?
01:47Absolutely, I'll jump at it.
01:49You will?
01:50Provided I have a good role.
01:52If the role is good, the film is good, the offer is good, will you do it?
01:57Absolutely.
01:58With Rajkumar Santoshi?
01:59Absolutely.
02:00There won't be any awkwardness, right?
02:03There won't be any awkwardness when we completed Damini together,
02:07when all the fresh news came out.
02:09So now it's all water under the bridge.
02:12So you will do it with him.
02:14Are there any other directors that you're looking forward to working with?
02:18A lot of the women directors, I'll be honest.
02:22And how many are there these days?
02:25A lot?
02:26Yes.
02:27And they're doing a good job.
02:29My feelers are all going that way.
02:32So I don't want to jinx it.
02:35But the vibes are going out.
02:37Vibes are going out.
02:38Like I said, I'm interested in directors who have great command over multiple genres.
02:46Because I just feel that I'm a lot a director's artist.
02:53So for me that will make the world of difference.
02:59So there are a lot of women directors also that you would like to work with?
03:05Yes.
03:06Interesting.
03:07Because I think I'd love to see you working with any good director actually.
03:13Are you talking to Subhash Ghai?
03:17Subhash, he made my day.
03:20I did a reality dance show.
03:24And I got a video message that he would love to make a movie with Jackie or Anil or with me.
03:35So I was like, Subhash, do you really mean it?
03:39So if he does, I will go all out to tell him that I'm ready and willing.
03:46Are you ready if somebody wants you to do an audition?
03:51If somebody asks you to do an audition.
03:54I will happily give an audition.
03:56Really?
03:57Because my vision is that, wow, even though this is not a complete film,
04:04but there will be a camera, lights, direction, dialogues.
04:08It's like a narrow entrance to what can actually develop later on.
04:14Right.
04:15So I will love it.
04:17So were you missing him?
04:20To be honest, the one thing I missed was creativity.
04:28Not the show show.
04:30The show show never influenced me.
04:34Never.
04:35It was there.
04:37I went with it.
04:39But for me, the high, the passion,
04:42it was just my work and connecting with other people who are so creative and talented.
04:49I missed that a lot in the US.
04:52So didn't you miss the make-up, lights, camera?
04:57Or that's part of the creative process?
05:00Yes.
05:01I think magic happens there,
05:06where you get something out of yourself.
05:11Make-up is just an outer veneer.
05:16But the true spark is from within.
05:19That is what I missed.
05:21So you didn't stay here for 28 years.
05:24You were in America.
05:26You gave your full commitment to your family.
05:30Correct?
05:31Yes.
05:32But at that time, did you have time to see what was happening here?
05:36What work was being done here?
05:38What films were being made?
05:40What was coming on OTT?
05:42Did you keep track of that?
05:43Not much.
05:45I had very little time.
05:47You had to do everything.
05:49Yes, all the housework.
05:52From morning to night.
05:54And I had to take care of two kids while my husband was busy with his work.
06:01I was also a dance teacher.
06:06I had a lot of students in my school.
06:10So I only had time for that.
06:14I was completely focused on that.
06:16Like Dronacharya used to ask Arjun,
06:19What did you see?
06:21He didn't say, I saw a tree or a bird.
06:24I only saw the eyes of the bird.
06:27That's what he aimed at.
06:30I did the same.
06:32What is the aim you are looking at now?
06:34The aim now?
06:36I think the aim is that
06:40whatever I have inside me,
06:43whatever I want to express,
06:45as an artist,
06:47I can give a path to all that.
06:50Like small rivers come from the mountains,
06:55then they merge and form a big river and go towards the sea.
06:59Something like that.
07:01So you are completely focused on your career.
07:05Yes, I am.
07:07I am also focused on my family.
07:09But this is a long distance relationship.
07:11You said that the kids have grown up.
07:13They have grown up.
07:15They have their own life.
07:17This step of mine is making a big difference for them.
07:22They are becoming more intelligent,
07:25more powerful.
07:27Their intelligence,
07:29their way of thinking,
07:31they are becoming more mature.
07:34Because mummy is not there for everything.
07:38In fact, they are happy.
07:44In India, it is said that
07:47when kids grow up,
07:49the parent-child relationship does not change.
07:53It remains a parent-child relationship,
07:55even if the child is 40 years old.
07:57My family and I have decided
08:01that it should be
08:03adult to adult
08:05once they are this old.
08:07Not parent to child.
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