In an exclusive interview with senior most journalist Bharathi S Pradhan for Lehren Retro, the mesmerizing Madhoo Shah talks about some of her amazing cinematic works like Phool Aur Kaante (1991), Roja (1992) & the recently released Pan-India film Kannappa (2025). The leading lady talks about her close bond with cousin Hema Malini and sister-in-law Juhi Chawla in turn elaborating upon their family tree. Shah also shares her experience of working with co-stars Ajay Devgn, Arvind Swamy & Akshay Kumar and reveals the real reason behind becoming a film actress. Madhoo gives some unheard and exciting insights on her love-story with husband Anand Shah while commenting on her talented daughters career plans. The Pan-India artist gives her strong take on Operation Sindoor conducted by the Indian Armed Forces in retaliation to Pakistan's terror attack in Pahalgam (Kashmir) & hails PM Narendra Modi's firm stance & diplomacy during the entire situation. Watch the full podcast as Madhoo gets candid on her Magical Movie Journey only at your favourite digital destination, Lehren. #madhoo #madhooshah #roja #phoolaurkaante #kannappa #hemamalini #operationsindoor #madhoointerview #madhoopodcast #modi
Category
✨
PeopleTranscript
00:00:00As long as my mother was alive,
00:00:02they told me that I am the prettiest girl in the whole world.
00:00:06And I wanted to go out just to get out of my house
00:00:09and go to Hema Ji's house because we were very close as families,
00:00:12Amba and all of that.
00:00:13So my auntie also told me,
00:00:15After Hema, it is you.
00:00:18Arvind for me is very funny.
00:00:20I recently worked with him in a film called Talevi.
00:00:22So we had some scenes together.
00:00:24After so many years, we reunited.
00:00:26We were on the set and I don't know,
00:00:28I don't know,
00:00:30I don't know, an iconic scene.
00:00:32Me and Arvind's whole,
00:00:34I mean, a lot of things,
00:00:36So he has a very funny sense of humor,
00:00:38and a very sweet way of talking.
00:00:40Those two actors killed it.
00:00:44You know, you are extremely well maintained.
00:00:48No one says that you are going to be in the house.
00:00:51Very, very well maintained.
00:00:53And Akshay Kumar, who you are as a hero,
00:00:56and now you have a picture with him.
00:00:58He is doing the best appearance.
00:01:00Yeah, Karnapa.
00:01:01So he has also said,
00:01:03in the public,
00:01:04that she lives in a refrigerator.
00:01:06Because she is so well maintained.
00:01:08Yes.
00:01:09Yes.
00:01:12Today's films are very different from the films you have done,
00:01:16and Hema Ji have done.
00:01:18They are very different films.
00:01:21The scenes are very intimate.
00:01:24Are you ready for your daughter to do those?
00:01:26Is she ready?
00:01:27Is she ready?
00:01:28Yes.
00:01:29Yes.
00:01:30Yes.
00:01:31Yes.
00:01:32Yes.
00:01:33Yes.
00:01:34Yes.
00:01:35It is.
00:01:37It urban is a натquit material for a home purpose.
00:01:46Namaskaram Madhu.
00:01:47Namaskaram Bharti Ji.
00:01:49Nice to see you after such a long time.
00:01:51nice to see you after such a long time you know I was just telling somebody I'm doing a lot of
00:01:58interviews and podcasts and I love it you know but when they said Lehre you have such a special
00:02:07relationship I have a special Lehre for me is like it it takes me it's Lehre is me someone from the
00:02:15back in the day still continues be is still relevant and still contemporary like me that's
00:02:22what I'm trying to be and that's what Lehre is and that coming together is special so
00:02:27one is Lehre and the other one is you so I have confirmed that is Bharti ji going to talk to me because I want to talk to Bharti ji
00:02:36correct yes thank you very much for having me my pleasure Madhu really my pleasure
00:02:41I know you from Poole and Kante 1991 after that you were Roja girl up and we have done a lot of photo sessions with you
00:02:50blow up and all of them blow up and all of them blow up
00:02:56Madhu I met you in 1991 when Poole and Kante came to Poole and Kante
00:03:01you and Ajay Devgan both of your first films for both and it was wonderful such a big hit
00:03:09and it was really nice meeting you there you do a cool film Millie
00:03:14how do you get that film Millie?
00:03:18you know this is an easy question for me actually and it is a very magical and difficult question
00:03:27that is how I can do it because I am thinking about what I am and what I am
00:03:33I can tell you that I don't have to plan anything to do it
00:03:36life how do you plan it or how you plan it or how you plan it or how you plan it or how you plan it
00:03:41how you plan it or how you plan it or how you plan it
00:03:42a dream I had come to be an actor when I was 5 years old or 6 years old
00:03:47or 8 years old when I was 5 years old when I was 5 years old when I was 6 or 8 years old
00:03:50when I was the dream that I will become an actor and actress
00:03:54and when I was 13 or 14 years old when my mother was off and passed away
00:04:02you were only 12 or 13?
00:04:07I was only 13
00:04:09so this dream that I will become an actor
00:04:12after that 13 years and 16 or 17 years old
00:04:15it was also been finished
00:04:17in that sense, I did not see myself as an actor
00:04:20because in my teenage years
00:04:23now I feel like it was not good
00:04:26I feel like the criteria for being an actor
00:04:29I did not see myself as an actor
00:04:32I did not see myself as a beautiful
00:04:34because in my childhood
00:04:36I was only a couple of people
00:04:37I was only a person
00:04:38I was a sportive girl
00:04:39so I was always playing outside
00:04:41and I was always playing with cricket
00:04:42so I was also a little bit
00:04:47I was of a little weight
00:04:48I was a little bit
00:04:49so I didn't see myself as an actor
00:04:51so I did not see myself as an actor
00:04:53and then I became an actor
00:04:57so I always say
00:04:59I didn't become an actor
00:05:01and I didn't have a career
00:05:03because of me I had a career in spite of me. But how did you get it?
00:05:09It happened that my father became a producer because he became a single parent so he left
00:05:15his service and became a producer. He made films like Awargi, Marg, Mahesh Bhatt was the director.
00:05:24One of them was Hema Ji and I had to go home with him and I had to watch all of his films and rehearsals.
00:05:36So that's what I saw. And in my childhood I had to teach my mother dance.
00:05:40She was a dancer. So I saw her dance, music, films and then my father became a producer.
00:05:46So I went to the set with him and went to the music recording.
00:05:54Anu Malik Ji was a music director, Mahesh Bhatt was a director.
00:05:57So when I was in my father's music setting, sitting and recording,
00:06:02someone else saw me and said to my father that I am making a film and I want to launch Madhu.
00:06:10So my father was a little confused because as I said to you,
00:06:16I saw this dream that I wanted to become an actor.
00:06:22But as soon as I went to my mother, my dream was gone.
00:06:26Because I felt like I can't be one.
00:06:28And I didn't say this to my father.
00:06:31He was also a producer.
00:06:33But I didn't say that I want to be an actor.
00:06:36And then when I went to the set, someone else saw me and said to my father that I will launch my son.
00:06:46And my father was confused.
00:06:48Because I didn't say this to him.
00:06:51He was confused.
00:06:53So he came to the house and said to his tone,
00:06:56He wants to launch you.
00:06:58And this is a disbelief.
00:07:00That it doesn't happen.
00:07:02I said, I want to be an actor.
00:07:06That is when I expressed myself.
00:07:08And then that launched with them.
00:07:12So they did a photo shoot for illustrated weekly magazine.
00:07:18And they got me into the acting school.
00:07:21And they got me into the crash course.
00:07:24That happened for a month.
00:07:26And then when the shoot started,
00:07:28they thought that I wasn't ready.
00:07:30And then they replaced me with another artist.
00:07:35So after shooting, they replaced me?
00:07:38Yes.
00:07:39After 3-4 days.
00:07:40After shooting, I realized that I wasn't in that film.
00:07:45But in that period,
00:07:48I decided to be an actor.
00:07:53And then I decided to be an actor.
00:07:56And then that determination.
00:07:58Yes.
00:07:59After that.
00:08:00In between period,
00:08:01there was confusion.
00:08:02I can't see myself as an actor.
00:08:06After that moment,
00:08:08it changed.
00:08:09Then,
00:08:10I did a diploma course with Roshan Ji.
00:08:15I did my language.
00:08:16I did my language.
00:08:17I did my language.
00:08:18I did my confidence.
00:08:19I joined the film dance class.
00:08:21I did my team brush up.
00:08:23And my father's dream.
00:08:25That I will graduate too.
00:08:28And then,
00:08:29I completed it.
00:08:30After all this,
00:08:32to answer your question in short.
00:08:35Because I couldn't answer it in short.
00:08:37I couldn't answer it in short.
00:08:38I couldn't answer it in short.
00:08:39I couldn't answer it.
00:08:40I couldn't answer it.
00:08:41Right.
00:08:42I couldn't do it.
00:08:43Yes.
00:08:44But,
00:08:45then again,
00:08:46a very magical moment came.
00:08:47When I was at home.
00:08:48After all I was trying to do anything.
00:08:49And after all I didn't do anything.
00:08:50Then I graduated.
00:08:51I had to graduate.
00:08:52Studies,
00:08:53I also completed.
00:08:54I also completed.
00:08:55I had to have a diploma course.
00:08:56After all I had come from now,
00:08:57and there was a empty space.
00:08:58After all I was doing.
00:08:59I didn't even do anything.
00:09:01And my father was pressing.
00:09:02He said,
00:09:03He said,
00:09:04He said,
00:09:05you should be a doctor.
00:09:06He is working.
00:09:07He will then.
00:09:08He'll do it.
00:09:09You should make everything.
00:09:10And,
00:09:11But I don't want to sit empty.
00:09:14When I was at home, I was playing a carom board with my friends and my brother.
00:09:24At that time, the phone rang and I rang the phone.
00:09:30And on the other side, I was talking about Coca-Cola.
00:09:36I was talking about Coca-Cola, we are making a film, Veerudev Ganji, we launched his son.
00:09:43The film has actually been made.
00:09:46And we are looking at you for the romantic lead.
00:09:51I didn't even hear that.
00:09:54Because my concentration was on that coin.
00:09:57I was putting my phone.
00:10:00I didn't even know that there was a big phone on the table.
00:10:05Landline.
00:10:06Landline.
00:10:07And his connection was also in the other room.
00:10:09So my father was sitting in the hall room.
00:10:12So I heard a lot of noise here.
00:10:14Just take a call.
00:10:16There is somebody called Coca-Cola.
00:10:18Next thing I know, he spoke.
00:10:20And next thing I knew, I was doing that film.
00:10:22And that is how magically there was no auditioning.
00:10:26There was no office in the office.
00:10:27There was no evening purpose.
00:10:28There was no evening auditioning.
00:10:29There nothing happened to me.
00:10:31There was waiting care definitely there.
00:10:36But it was the most important period because I thought that I will try it now.
00:10:43Little, long, fat, thin, whatever may be the case.
00:10:48Zidh.
00:10:49Zidh.
00:10:50Now I will be an actor.
00:10:52After that moment, I got this opportunity.
00:10:55One question.
00:10:56You said that the film was a bad movie.
00:10:59Was it made with someone else?
00:11:01I think so.
00:11:02So you replaced someone else?
00:11:07Yes.
00:11:08And so it goes.
00:11:11Okay.
00:11:13And did you meet Ajay Dev Khan at that time?
00:11:16I mean, just before shooting?
00:11:18No, I got it on the set.
00:11:20Okay.
00:11:21And...
00:11:22What do you think, your first impression of Ajay Dev Khan?
00:11:25Because he was not a very good looking person.
00:11:27Uh...
00:11:28You know, I was very blinded by my own desire.
00:11:30Burning desire.
00:11:31I was very blinded by my own desire.
00:11:32Burning desire.
00:11:33Today I am a very different person.
00:11:34That's why thinking about that girl, 20 year old girl, is a bit difficult for you.
00:11:35Because today I am not a person.
00:11:36But to go back.
00:11:37To go back.
00:11:38That 20 year old girl, who was fighting in life in 13 years.
00:11:44You know, fighting in every situation.
00:11:46In the kitchen.
00:11:47And making food in the kitchen.
00:12:02I was lucky.
00:12:03I would have a youthful future.
00:12:05And for my uncle, I didn't leave it at night.
00:12:08But there was something, what do you think?
00:12:09I'm not a person.
00:12:10Because the family was naked.
00:12:11Where is the mother?
00:12:12I was a father and a son.
00:12:13And I was a young girl.
00:12:14And he was a kid from home.
00:12:15As I was young.
00:12:16And then I took the wife of my son.
00:12:17And I got the colleague.
00:12:18Dravaring him in his life to get used.
00:12:19And I stopped from home.
00:12:20Instead, I just lost him.
00:12:21And he was a child.
00:12:22That's what I felt.
00:12:23But, she was a little boy.
00:12:25You know, she was a child.
00:12:27And she would have to be a child.
00:12:28And he was a child.
00:12:29And she was a child.
00:12:30As long as my mother was alive, they told me that I am the prettiest girl in the whole
00:12:37world.
00:12:38And I had to go out just to go out of my home and go to Hema Ji's house.
00:12:43Because we were very close as families, Amba and all of that.
00:12:46To go out of their house, cousins come to their house, the culture of friendship and friends
00:12:52was not the same.
00:12:53We had to go out of our house, we had to play with friends with building friends and
00:12:57we had to go out of our house and we had to go out of our house.
00:13:00My auntie told me that after Hema, it is you.
00:13:05You know, my mommy used to say, you are going to be the next actor, I will become an actor.
00:13:12You are the most beautiful girl in town.
00:13:15That was the belief that mother and father were thinking that you are the queen on this
00:13:22earth.
00:13:23And I didn't see anything, social media, exposure, TV channels.
00:13:27I didn't know what the world was.
00:13:29The world was only for me and my world.
00:13:32That's all.
00:13:33After that, when I went to Mithibhai College, I saw that the girl looks like this.
00:13:41that girl is veryera tribe.
00:13:46How was she like this?
00:13:47And then, even now, his character should sound sound and dead.
00:13:48Now, my caller will create my character back, thinking
00:13:50that McCarthy will show up on that.
00:13:52And then I became into a shadow of me.
00:13:54That woman would then select, elect, choose, like this,
00:14:00Kyoto and前 is the power of her soul.
00:14:02In fact, this is a funny thing that Mahesh Bhatt Ji was the director of my father's
00:14:09director.
00:14:10After selecting me, when I was sitting on my father's set, I said, uncle, I have been
00:14:17selected to do this role.
00:14:18You think I can be an actor?
00:14:20I asked him this.
00:14:21Okay.
00:14:22You think, can I be an actor?
00:14:24So he, in his very majestic voice, said, do you want to be an actor?
00:14:28He asked me.
00:14:29I said, yes.
00:14:30I never asked this question ever again.
00:14:32Okay.
00:14:33You want it, you go for it.
00:14:35He said that to me once.
00:14:36Typical Mahesh.
00:14:37Yes.
00:14:38Yes.
00:14:39But having said that, I was replaced.
00:14:45I faced rejection.
00:14:47And rejection, because I was not good enough, obviously.
00:14:50They thought that I wasn't ready or I wasn't good enough.
00:14:54So I wasn't.
00:14:55That picture?
00:14:56It was.
00:14:57And you saw it?
00:14:58I didn't see it.
00:14:59I didn't see it.
00:15:00I didn't see it.
00:15:01But I didn't see it.
00:15:02But it went.
00:15:03You see?
00:15:04There was something else in your achievements.
00:15:06As you say, the kids always say, what is your mind, then what is your mind, then what is your mind, then what is your mind.
00:15:13But I want to come to that.
00:15:15So you asked, Ajay Devgan, what is your impression on that set?
00:15:20The back story is, I came from a place of such a not good feeling.
00:15:26Right.
00:15:27When I went to the set, neither did I see Ajay Devgan, neither did I see Amrish Puri, nor did I see Aruna Irani Ji, nor did I appreciate the tune of Nadeem Shravan.
00:15:40So I didn't see anything.
00:15:41It was just, I wanted to become an actor.
00:15:42That's it.
00:15:43In that moment, I would only be an actor.
00:15:44And I would only be an actor.
00:15:45And I would only be an actor on the screen.
00:15:46And I would only be an actor on the screen.
00:15:47And I would only be an actor on the screen.
00:15:48And I would say this from the whole world.
00:15:49I belong to the film world.
00:15:50But I did it all by myself.
00:15:51One question.
00:15:52One question.
00:15:53Because on Wikipedia and the internet, there are different relationships.
00:15:58You are Hemamalani's cousin, correct?
00:16:01Yes.
00:16:02My father and Amba were brothers and sisters.
00:16:04So that's why Hemamal Ji and me are cousins.
00:16:06Cousins.
00:16:07Okay.
00:16:08Mama.
00:16:09Sorry.
00:16:10Means Jaya Ji's brother is your father.
00:16:11Yes.
00:16:12And okay.
00:16:13So you are cousins.
00:16:14Yes.
00:16:15So do you call each other by your name?
00:16:16Yes.
00:16:17Yes.
00:16:18She is always my Hemamal.
00:16:19Hemu.
00:16:20Okay.
00:16:21Okay.
00:16:22So in fact, again, funny thing happened.
00:16:24When she later on didn't say that, she said that, she said that, she said that, she said
00:16:27she was a director.
00:16:28So first day on the set, I didn't know what to call her.
00:16:30So I said, she said, you are cousins.
00:16:31You are cousins.
00:16:32Yes.
00:16:33So do you call each other by your name?
00:16:34Yes.
00:16:35Yes.
00:16:36She is always my Hemu.
00:16:37Hemu.
00:16:38Okay.
00:16:39So in fact, again, funny thing happened.
00:16:40When she later on directed me, I did a movie with her.
00:16:45I did Urvashi for women of India for Z.
00:16:50So she was a director.
00:16:52So first day on the set, I didn't know what to call her.
00:16:56So I said, what do I call you?
00:16:58I call you director Hema ji.
00:17:00Hema ji.
00:17:01What do I call you?
00:17:02You have to call me Hemu na.
00:17:04She said.
00:17:05Okay.
00:17:06Because that's how I have called her as a little girl.
00:17:08Since you were a kid.
00:17:09Yeah.
00:17:10That's right.
00:17:11So Hema ji, did you want to become an actress?
00:17:14Yes.
00:17:15It's a childhood impression.
00:17:17What you see at home, you get impressed with that.
00:17:20I think that is my only explanation.
00:17:22Because in my house, my mum was very ambitious.
00:17:26As a dancer, she also became a producer.
00:17:28Okay.
00:17:29When my father was still in service, she couldn't become a producer because he was in the government.
00:17:33My mother became a producer.
00:17:34Okay.
00:17:35She made a film for two films.
00:17:36Hema ji, Dharmendra ji.
00:17:37They were in lead.
00:17:38And Dulal Guha ji.
00:17:39Okay.
00:17:40He was the director.
00:17:41He was the director.
00:17:42He was the director.
00:17:43And I went to their shooting.
00:17:44And my mum.
00:17:45So she was there.
00:17:46I will make your film.
00:17:47I will launch you.
00:17:48That's what I'm hearing.
00:17:49Your mum was saying.
00:17:50She was my first dance teacher.
00:17:51And I didn't dance well.
00:17:52She used to beat me.
00:17:53You know that thing that Bharatanatyam still?
00:17:54Yeah.
00:17:55Yeah.
00:17:56She used to hit me.
00:17:57And I would be more angry.
00:17:58My mother hitting me.
00:17:59Then she decided that she was my first dance teacher.
00:18:01I will make your film.
00:18:02I will launch you.
00:18:03I will launch you.
00:18:04That's what I'm hearing.
00:18:05Your mum was saying.
00:18:06That's what I'm hearing.
00:18:07Your mum was saying.
00:18:08And then I saw that.
00:18:09That thing that Bharatanatyam still.
00:18:11Yeah.
00:18:12Yeah.
00:18:13She used to hit me.
00:18:14And I would be more angry.
00:18:16That my mother hitting me.
00:18:18Then she decided that she wouldn't become my teacher.
00:18:21So then she got me Raja Rajasri.
00:18:23Master Ji to come home and teach me.
00:18:25And all that happened.
00:18:26So I saw what dance happens.
00:18:29At a very high level.
00:18:32Then I saw.
00:18:34How does Hema ji conduct her life?
00:18:38Who comes in her house?
00:18:40There are story settings.
00:18:41There are dance practices.
00:18:43She used to learn sitar.
00:18:45I don't know.
00:18:46I have just observed.
00:18:47These two women in my life.
00:18:49My mother and Hema ji.
00:18:50And my mother's voice.
00:18:52You are an actor.
00:18:54You are an actor.
00:18:55So I just believed.
00:18:56That I am born to be an actor.
00:18:58So you think.
00:18:59Your mother has seen Hema ji.
00:19:02And thought.
00:19:03Why can't my daughter become my daughter?
00:19:05No.
00:19:06I don't think so.
00:19:07And that's why she taught Bharatanatyam.
00:19:09You know.
00:19:10That's a part of it.
00:19:11No.
00:19:12I think.
00:19:13You learn Bharatanatyam.
00:19:14Then you become an actor.
00:19:15No.
00:19:16I think.
00:19:17I have done my mother's incomplete dream.
00:19:19She wanted to be an actor.
00:19:21She wanted to be an actor.
00:19:22She wanted to be an actor.
00:19:23Because.
00:19:24Where they came from.
00:19:26From Ramya Pralai ji.
00:19:27Guruji.
00:19:28I think.
00:19:29Sarojadevi ji.
00:19:30You know.
00:19:31That old actress.
00:19:32Yes.
00:19:33I think.
00:19:34She.
00:19:35She.
00:19:36She.
00:19:37She danced with her.
00:19:38Stage.
00:19:39She was the same.
00:19:40Students.
00:19:41Of Master ji.
00:19:42Okay.
00:19:43So.
00:19:44My mother said.
00:19:45You look like Sarojadevi.
00:19:47My mother thought.
00:19:48She looks like Sarojadevi.
00:19:49And she should be an actor.
00:19:50But even your face.
00:19:51Is a little like Sarojadevi.
00:19:52You know.
00:19:53Maybe.
00:19:54So.
00:19:55My mother.
00:19:56Had a dream.
00:19:57That she.
00:19:58Wanted to achieve a lot.
00:19:59In artistry.
00:20:00Artistic world.
00:20:01Oh.
00:20:02So.
00:20:03You are.
00:20:04Okay.
00:20:05Actually.
00:20:06She was.
00:20:07Dancing on the stage.
00:20:08When.
00:20:09Amba.
00:20:10We all call.
00:20:11Hema ji's mother.
00:20:12Amba.
00:20:13Jaya ji.
00:20:14Amba.
00:20:15She was the.
00:20:16Matriarch of her family.
00:20:17Right.
00:20:18So.
00:20:19Amba.
00:20:20Backstage.
00:20:21I would like your daughter.
00:20:22For.
00:20:23I mean.
00:20:24Renuka.
00:20:25For my brother.
00:20:26Oh.
00:20:27So.
00:20:28My mother.
00:20:29She brought her into the family.
00:20:30Yes.
00:20:31So.
00:20:32You know.
00:20:33What I am saying is.
00:20:34Of course.
00:20:35Then.
00:20:36You are watching another.
00:20:37Gorgeous.
00:20:38Talented.
00:20:39Human being as Hema.
00:20:40Hema.
00:20:41Hema ji.
00:20:42In the family.
00:20:43And she herself was.
00:20:44So.
00:20:45To.
00:20:46Unki.
00:20:47Incomplete.
00:20:48Dreams.
00:20:49Oh.
00:20:50Kuch.
00:20:51Or.
00:20:52Banna.
00:20:53Dekha ki.
00:20:54Hema ji.
00:20:55She is achieving.
00:20:56Amazing.
00:20:57Great.
00:20:58Heights.
00:20:59So.
00:21:00Why not my daughter.
00:21:01So.
00:21:02I always feel that I lived my mother's dream.
00:21:03Your mother's dream.
00:21:04Yeah.
00:21:05How sweet of that.
00:21:06Yeah.
00:21:07I didn't know.
00:21:08What was her influence.
00:21:09Whether Hema ji was her inspiration.
00:21:10Or whether her own.
00:21:12Life was an inspiration.
00:21:13I don't know.
00:21:14But all in all.
00:21:15I grew up only in that energy.
00:21:17Okay.
00:21:18How beautiful.
00:21:19Do you know that Hema ji.
00:21:21Had a same.
00:21:22Start.
00:21:23To her career.
00:21:24Unki bhi pahli film.
00:21:26Band hogi.
00:21:27After shooting.
00:21:28Shridhar ke saath.
00:21:29Unnonek.
00:21:30Film shuru kiya.
00:21:31Unnonek.
00:21:32Vachan.
00:21:33Yes.
00:21:34Vachan liya.
00:21:35I will never work in the south.
00:21:37No.
00:21:38Unnonek.
00:21:39Lekin.
00:21:40Shridhar ke saath.
00:21:41Unnonek.
00:21:42Picture bhi kiya.
00:21:43Unnonek.
00:21:44Unnonek.
00:21:45Which, mei nah ek bahar hdi meanh un kişi.
00:21:46Wrfn da faa.
00:21:47Dинqv me pukcha ta.
00:21:48Ki did you talk about it when he came to you.
00:21:50She said, no.
00:21:51wynha kabhi puk study hnei n ee.
00:21:53Unnonek bhvi.
00:21:54Bat n achei iki housing kiya.
00:21:55Like Shridhar,
00:21:56I mean, did you take it out on him in any way?
00:21:58Oh, non, one at all.
00:21:59No?
00:22:00He gave a nice role to me.
00:22:01He was very sweet.
00:22:02Extremely nice.
00:22:03Achah.
00:22:04And we never even ever mentioned also.
00:22:06See you took me in that film.
00:22:08And you rejected me.
00:22:09Why did you do that
00:22:10Never.
00:22:11We never had a one involve talk.
00:22:12Also nothing.
00:22:13Oh.
00:22:14very sweetly we but did he apologize no he also neither of you spoke about it
00:22:20nothing will be as if it never happened I want to I'm listening this for the
00:22:26first time and I connect my life with that person Hema ji has been my silent
00:22:30inspiration in front of him I never learned anything in front of him
00:22:36life lesson okay but just watching but just an influence you know just
00:22:40the same way I came in the industry and I felt very good about myself I came with
00:22:55that I will a Taj I I came with that Taj okay I but I have never given anyone or
00:23:03yeah kisi ko woe asas need dilla ya woe sare loo jino ne moe me
00:23:09ah kamiya deki ah or ya mujhe nahi liya ya reject ya woe jib saamne aai
00:23:16I never did that.
00:23:18Okay.
00:23:20The one who rejected you about filming a little film?
00:23:24I haven't given their name.
00:23:26No, that's okay.
00:23:28But you ever met them?
00:23:30We will meet in parties.
00:23:32One time, I remember that I was immature.
00:23:34He came to me and saw it.
00:23:36And I went to the moment and went back and stopped.
00:23:38So I didn't get it.
00:23:40So until you came in the pool and can't come?
00:23:42Yes, and Roja also came.
00:23:44When I felt I'm a good actor also.
00:23:46I felt that.
00:23:48So yeah, that happened.
00:23:50But I'm surprised that you said that after the shoot, you replaced it.
00:23:54It was the same thing with Hema Ji.
00:23:56It was strange.
00:23:58But you know, it's always a good thing.
00:24:00This is what we can understand from hindsight.
00:24:02We can understand from hindsight.
00:24:04We can understand from hindsight.
00:24:06We can understand from hindsight.
00:24:08We can understand from hindsight.
00:24:10That's why I said that 20-year-old girl did not understand that.
00:24:14But a 50-year-old girl, I should say 50-year-old woman, but a girl definitely understands that every mistake, every fall or I hate the word failure.
00:24:32I never used the word failure.
00:24:34There is no failure.
00:24:35There is no experience.
00:24:36Yeah, but yeah, correct.
00:24:37I hate the word.
00:24:38But every time those feelings happened, they were like the fire that propelled me to go higher.
00:24:44Right.
00:24:45They didn't have the courage to tell me about her father.
00:24:48Those producers who have sitting with Mahesh Bhatt and Dulal Guha, as the director,
00:24:52They didn't have the courage to tell me about her father.
00:24:56i want to be an actor that girl got the spring only because of all these experiences so that's
00:25:03how i see it okay excellent yeah everything is an experience actually yeah no um ajay devgun is
00:25:12still going strong as a hero yeah it's doing well so he's lasted right from 1991 to 2020-2025
00:25:22man he's still doing very well how do you uh look at it because do you feel that women are not given the
00:25:31same lifespan as the men not at all he's still a hero hanji maybe up abhi just say shayad you
00:25:41don't know here but i've come back to working only in the last few years and i came in a cafe
00:25:47very strong roles strong roles hit hona or logon ke nazar mein woh hit ana baki hai baki i am getting
00:25:56the due respect and getting the roles that i feel i can carry out and i feel very humbled
00:26:04abhi meri a film ban ke ready hain nahin it's called chinna chinna aasai it's a bilingual tamil
00:26:11malayana yeah but that's the title um in fact uh mani sir very kindly has uh released the uh poster of
00:26:22the film okay very soon that film will release i i the title role i'm playing okay i feel so grateful
00:26:28bharati ji imagine ke main industrial se 10 12-15 saal totally bahar rehne ke baad ab main jab
00:26:36wapas hai hoon people producer maker audience are still giving me that respect to give me a title
00:26:43role because you're a good actor yeah so i i he and you have maintained yourself beautifully he has his
00:26:50trajectory uh the male actors with whom i worked from saif to uh akshay to ajay they're all never had to
00:26:59give up never have to leave but i left voluntarily okay main ye bol ke gai thi ka mije ye industry me nahin
00:27:07because i wanted to so badly want to have my wanted to have my small world meri chuti dunia
00:27:13oh patani what that was i was stuck with that image small world my world my children i wanted that
00:27:19i didn't want the business of this industry and i made that choice and i went i made my world
00:27:26when i were there my identity look at that i always have thought though i have to be active
00:27:35thinking i've never been doing a lot of thinking but i was not planning but for the first time i didn't
00:27:39know that i want to be a actor i wanted to be an actor because i had confidence and i made my life
00:27:44destiny and i made my life actor an actor again i made me take a moment to be an actor you were
00:27:49I want to be a family person, I want to be a mother, I went there, after going there I felt that my identity, if I work or not, I am only an actor
00:28:01because I didn't have fun in the kitchen, I didn't have that feeling of joy, I didn't have that feeling of creativity
00:28:09so I didn't have that feeling of joy and creativity
00:28:15I didn't have that feeling of joy, I didn't have that feeling of joy, I didn't have that feeling of joy
00:28:21so I remember 5, 4, 3 years ago, in the passport or school certificate, that occupation of the mother, I was a housewife
00:28:28very proudly, occupation of the housewife
00:28:33after 3 or 5 years, I didn't have to be an actor, but in that column, I started to be an actress
00:28:42silently, I went back, that I am who I am, I am not working, but I am an actor
00:28:53so when I felt that I am an actor, and one time, Hema Ji and the whole family, we were doing lunch
00:29:00I was working, at that time, Hema Ji, took Aisha, that film, Tell me Oh Khuda
00:29:06I came back, they said that, why don't you come for a family holiday, we are going to Rajasthan
00:29:12I think, Jesselmehr or wherever the shooting was, I can't remember now, but it was in Rajasthan
00:29:18Rajasthan is where we are shooting, a girl role is Vinod Ji is also there in your segment
00:29:27come do this role and it'll be a family holiday with us.
00:29:32Aesha, Ahana, Hema ji everybody was there and then my family also didn't feel that Madhu's going back to work.
00:29:42They all said she's going with her cousins on a holiday.
00:29:45So I didn't have any trouble with that.
00:29:48I went there and then I made makeup.
00:29:53And I felt I'm an actor man.
00:29:56This is me.
00:29:58This is me.
00:29:59This is one day and two days.
00:30:01I didn't even.
00:30:02In fact, I took a role.
00:30:04When someone said that I took a role in two days.
00:30:07And when someone said that I didn't take a role in 10 days, I didn't do it.
00:30:11Can you imagine?
00:30:12And my husband also said, sweetie, why will you do this?
00:30:16You've been the Roja.
00:30:18Why are you doing this?
00:30:20So I told him, Anand, Anu, Anand, I was Roja 20 years ago.
00:30:2530 years ago.
00:30:26But life is today.
00:30:28All my life I cannot live thinking about that.
00:30:32Today I want to do something.
00:30:34I cannot leave the house.
00:30:35I don't want to leave the house with my little kutis for 10 days and 20 days.
00:30:40But I want to sit in front of the camera.
00:30:43I want to wear the makeup.
00:30:44So it's good for 2 days or 3 days.
00:30:47So I started like that.
00:30:49Because that whole thing of wearing makeup and facing the camera made me feel alive.
00:30:55Fantastic.
00:30:56Can we backtrack just a little?
00:30:59In 1992, Roja, what was life like to have Mani Ratnam come and offer you a film?
00:31:07You don't believe it.
00:31:08I will say this.
00:31:09I will say that.
00:31:10When I say that, when I say that, whose work you recognize as great.
00:31:19Suppose I say, Amitabji or Rajni Kaansar, I might be like, oh my god, I might feel like that.
00:31:28But at that time, I was not in awe of anybody.
00:31:33I was not intimidated by anybody.
00:31:36And I was launched by Balchandar sir.
00:31:40I didn't speak Hindi Hindi.
00:31:43But actually, I was also at the same time picked up by K Balchandar sir.
00:31:48As you know, they launched me, but I didn't feel like I am selected by this great man.
00:32:07I never felt that.
00:32:09So when Mani sir selected me, also I never felt that Mani Ratnam.
00:32:15Wow, I killed it.
00:32:16I never felt it.
00:32:18Okay.
00:32:19And that was my advantage.
00:32:20Because I was so natural.
00:32:22In my first film, in the first shooting, with Mamuti sir, with Banu Priya ji, with Raghun Master,
00:32:32I recited classical dance and swara jati in one take.
00:32:39It was a one take shot.
00:32:40It was a one take round trolley action.
00:32:42They wanted me.
00:32:43That was one take.
00:32:44And I am not a singer.
00:32:45So I never took classical singing training.
00:32:46So that was one take.
00:32:48That was one take.
00:32:49That was one take.
00:32:50That was one take.
00:32:51That was one take.
00:32:52And I am not a singer.
00:32:53So I never took classical singing training.
00:32:55So that was one take.
00:32:57But he asked me, sir asked me, should I break it up and take it?
00:33:03I said, no, sir.
00:33:04I rehearsed, rehearsed, rehearsed and did that.
00:33:05Did the shot.
00:33:06And in the same way, I did that dance step in front of Banu Priya ji.
00:33:16She is a great dancer.
00:33:18But I was not scared that Banu Priya ji is watching me do or Mamuti sir is watching me.
00:33:24I didn't feel that.
00:33:25You were never in awe of anybody.
00:33:28Because I said, I am going to do it.
00:33:30I don't know what it was, you know.
00:33:33So also when Mani sir took me in his film, I never felt I was doing a great film that is
00:33:40going to make me the Roja girl of the industry.
00:33:43I didn't feel anything.
00:33:45Did life change after Phool and Kante and Roja?
00:33:50Because they came in quick success.
00:33:52One came in 1991 and the other came in 1992.
00:33:55So after that.
00:33:56And there were many films that came in that time.
00:33:59Like Gentlemen, Yodha, it went on in every state.
00:34:04I think I was too happy.
00:34:08I was very happy.
00:34:11I was very happy.
00:34:12The difficulty that I had in my life, I didn't know.
00:34:17Like one film is launched and then you are waiting for the result.
00:34:23If it was a hit, you would get another film.
00:34:26All of those films were in my life.
00:34:30Because simultaneously, I had Malayalam film with Mukesh, Rajiv Menon, K Balchandar sir in Tamil and Phool and Kante in Hindi.
00:34:42I signed and released all big hits in their own time in the same year.
00:34:46So I got a second film in Malayalam, Neel Gari and Yodha.
00:34:51I got a Kannada film in Tamil and I got a Gentleman.
00:34:54In Hindi, I started getting movies like Pachan which nobody wanted to do.
00:34:58I wanted to do that.
00:34:59And my secretary had a lot of advice for me.
00:35:03Don't do it, son.
00:35:04Don't do it.
00:35:05Don't do it.
00:35:06I will not do it.
00:35:07Because at that time, the image of the heroine didn't do this role.
00:35:12And Roja was released.
00:35:14And Phool and Kante was released.
00:35:16So they said, what is the role of this film?
00:35:18And I said, I have to do this role.
00:35:20I have to do this role in the theater.
00:35:21Because Roja is also in the theater and you will be able to do this role.
00:35:25You will see me in two different roles.
00:35:26Yes.
00:35:27So I did all that and felt very happy.
00:35:32I was very insecure and scared as a human being.
00:35:35I think.
00:35:36Now I am thinking back and telling.
00:35:38I don't know what I thought at that time.
00:35:41Because my policy was that I have to be busy every day.
00:35:45So I didn't choose any film.
00:35:48I just said, yes.
00:35:50Yes.
00:35:51Yes.
00:35:52Yes.
00:35:53Because I had to go to the set every day.
00:35:56I need a break.
00:35:57If it is a break, then I would have to be insecure.
00:36:00What happened?
00:36:01Why?
00:36:02I didn't work.
00:36:03What was Hemu's reaction when she saw you as an actor?
00:36:09I have two priceless moments with Hemaji.
00:36:15One was when they saw Roja films.
00:36:18Okay.
00:36:19I have never seen a special show for my family.
00:36:24I have never seen a film in the theater.
00:36:28I have never seen a film in the theater.
00:36:29I was scared and scared.
00:36:30But I would try not to see.
00:36:34Because I was always thinking.
00:36:36I wouldn't yeah I wouldn't do well.
00:36:38How would I sit with my friends?
00:36:39I would sit with my friends and see.
00:36:40Okay.
00:36:41I was always that person.
00:36:42Okay.
00:36:43Never fully satisfied.
00:36:44Fully satisfied.
00:36:45So, you are very self-critical, maybe it came from the place of low self-esteem, I don't
00:36:58know, I had created a very offensive frontier, that I didn't give anyone to come to me, but
00:37:10maybe she was a scared child, who was doing this with a wall, so I didn't face it, so
00:37:20to show people that this is my job, and to face people's opinions, I never did it.
00:37:27I didn't ask film magazines in my house, stardust, film fair, because I didn't want to read
00:37:33something wrong about me, I didn't want to read what you want to read, what you want
00:37:40to read, what you want to read, what you want to read, what you want to read, that was my
00:37:42thing.
00:37:43So, I never made a film of Roja.
00:37:44I remember that I had already filmed another film shooting in Polachi, and my father was
00:37:53coming from Chennai when I was living with me.
00:37:56So, in Chennai, I saw a fully ready film of Roja, and then he came like he saw something,
00:38:06an angel, he came to me and said, this is it for you, this is it for you.
00:38:12I said, okay, this is my, because my father said, I am better than Madhuri Dixit.
00:38:16He would see me dance, and he would say, you are better than Madhuri Dixit.
00:38:19So, my father was my greatest cheerleader.
00:38:23I am telling you, Bharati ji, in my house, when I was little, my mother and my father
00:38:30always felt that I am the best.
00:38:33Then, the world showed me different things.
00:38:37So, that was it.
00:38:38So, when my father came and said, he saw Roja, and he said, ah, like that, like that,
00:38:42I am like, okay, whatever.
00:38:43Then, I didn't call anyone, I didn't say, look, look, Mani Ratnam has made this film for
00:38:50me, with me, see it, nothing.
00:38:52Hema ji and my family saw it in their own time, whenever they saw it.
00:38:57Okay.
00:38:58Because that was a film that nobody missed.
00:39:01Every film.
00:39:02Nobody missed.
00:39:03One of the first few films on Kashmir, terror, all of it.
00:39:08Yes.
00:39:09Nobody missed it.
00:39:10So, everybody saw it on their own time.
00:39:13Right.
00:39:14So, everybody saw it on their own time.
00:39:15Right.
00:39:16And what was the song?
00:39:17So, Hema ji's reaction, priceless, because she wrote a letter to me.
00:39:21Oh.
00:39:22Saying that she loved it.
00:39:23And many more to come and all that.
00:39:27I had kept that letter for a long time, but that was a special moment.
00:39:31And then, another one of them was a special moment.
00:39:32And then, another one of them was a special moment.
00:39:36When I told me, I worked with them.
00:39:37And they directed me.
00:39:38And there was a shot behind the camera.
00:39:39And I finished the shot.
00:39:40And then, I had to exit the frame.
00:39:43And when I exit the frame, I stopped and I gave a look to the camera and I held a look.
00:40:01And then, I went.
00:40:02And Hema ji forgot to say cut.
00:40:04Oh.
00:40:05And then, she said cut.
00:40:08And then, she said, you are a very good actress.
00:40:10Okay.
00:40:11Okay.
00:40:12So, this is.
00:40:13You know, these are.
00:40:14Yes.
00:40:15Of course.
00:40:16These are the prices.
00:40:17These are not things that, you know, they are doing for targeting.
00:40:18Correct.
00:40:19These are moments.
00:40:20When they feel it.
00:40:21Stop it.
00:40:22Don't say cut.
00:40:23And they told me.
00:40:24You are a very good actress.
00:40:25Good.
00:40:26Good actress.
00:40:27I am very good actress.
00:40:28I am very good actress.
00:40:29I am very good actress.
00:40:30I am very good actress.
00:40:31You know, you never forget.
00:40:32Absolutely.
00:40:33Any memorable moments with Mani Ratham when you are working with him?
00:40:38Mani sir is a man.
00:40:39Arvind Swami.
00:40:40Arvind Swami.
00:40:41Yeah.
00:40:42I had a very.
00:40:43Mani sir is a very man of few words.
00:40:44I don't feel that he is a man of few words.
00:40:45I don't see him.
00:40:46And if he is a man of few words.
00:40:47He is so shy.
00:40:48He doesn't even know how to accept it.
00:40:50Compliments.
00:40:51Compliments.
00:40:52He is really shy.
00:40:53Yeah.
00:40:54So, I don't know what he feels or thinks or whatever.
00:40:57But Arvind Swami is very funny.
00:40:58I recently worked with him in a film called Talayvi.
00:41:01Where he was a chief minister.
00:41:03M.J.R.
00:41:04Sir.
00:41:05And I became his wife.
00:41:06Janaki Amma.
00:41:07First wife.
00:41:08And.
00:41:09Jail Alita Ji's role was played by Kangana.
00:41:10So, we had some scenes together.
00:41:11After so many years we reunited.
00:41:12So, we were people in a set.
00:41:29And I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, an iconic scene of me and Arvind's
00:41:37entire life, so he has a very funny sense of humor, you know, or very sweet way of talking.
00:41:44Those two actors killed it.
00:41:47How sweet.
00:41:50He praised ourselves, he praised himself and he praised me, but he didn't say we were
00:41:58so good or, you know, whatever.
00:42:00He says, those two actors killed it.
00:42:04Yeah, that's like him.
00:42:07After 1991, 92, then Gentleman and all those films that you did in the South and out here,
00:42:15etc.
00:42:16When did you meet Anand and why did you quit?
00:42:19I quit.
00:42:22Because.
00:42:23Because.
00:42:24Because.
00:42:25Because.
00:42:26Because.
00:42:27Because.
00:42:28Because.
00:42:29Because.
00:42:30You were the best.
00:42:31Because you were the best.
00:42:32Because.
00:42:33You know, I'm a very feeling, I am a feeling oriented person.
00:42:36Um, I don't think much, they are advantageous, because I didn't be intimidated at that time.
00:42:48You know, Shammie Kapoorji was standing in front of me.
00:42:49Chintuji was standing in front of me.
00:42:51Nana Partaker was in front of me in so many movies.
00:42:54They are all great and I have seen their work and felt wow amazing, but when they were in front of me, I felt like I am okay, I can hold my own.
00:43:07So that person suddenly started feeling, especially in Hindi industry, even though I have done a lot of good roads in the South industry,
00:43:19I didn't acknowledge that at that time.
00:43:26If someone told me that you are South, or that South film is a big hit, someone told me that I was very angry.
00:43:35Because I always thought of myself as a Bollywood actor, a Hindi actor.
00:43:40By default, I was trying to establish that in Hindi films.
00:43:46I never thought about it.
00:43:49By default, I got to get myself busy every day.
00:43:55So I didn't say anything to anyone.
00:43:57I did everything.
00:43:59But I wanted to see myself doing better and better.
00:44:05and better and better.
00:44:06And it happened like that, I did a son in Kannada called Anaya, which was a super duper hit.
00:44:20But all those roles, it was happening in the South.
00:44:24In Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil.
00:44:27I got those roles and characters there to explore.
00:44:32In Hindi, I did a lot of films and songs with the top actors like Akshay and others.
00:44:42But I started feeling, after 1997, I know it's a very short period.
00:44:49Because I started my career in 1991 and in 1997, I started that feeling of discontent.
00:44:57I thought that I am not doing good work.
00:45:00And when I remember this story distinctly, when my father told me to go to Kamalistan or Filmistan,
00:45:11I felt like, why would I go to Kamalistan?
00:45:14When this story is supposed to be based in Jambu Kashmir or XYZ,
00:45:20I went to Kashmir Chaiwala, I put a board and shoot them.
00:45:29And after having worked with authentic directors in the South,
00:45:35Malayalam directors are very authentic and realistic.
00:45:38Then I came here to work with those directors,
00:45:41who put a board and show that we are somewhere else.
00:45:45And it was cheating.
00:45:47As an artist, I felt like a discontent feeling.
00:45:52And I was not able to carry on under the carpet.
00:45:57I was like, let's go, let's do it.
00:46:00I was not able to keep that attitude.
00:46:02And I started feeling very irritated.
00:46:04And slowly, slowly, I felt like I am not happy.
00:46:07I was sad going to the set.
00:46:10I wanted to go to the set every day.
00:46:15And then, I know, I call you destiny's child.
00:46:19Because when that feeling comes to me strongly,
00:46:21I have experienced it.
00:46:22And it feels like it is happening.
00:46:24In today's language, in today's language,
00:46:27we call manifestation.
00:46:30In that time, all these words were not manifestation.
00:46:33But when I felt like feeling and desire,
00:46:36it felt like it was happening.
00:46:37And I started feeling that I am not going to set.
00:46:39And it so happened that I fell in love.
00:46:41And it so happened that I got married.
00:46:42And then, I just got the reason.
00:46:43So, you didn't give it to me.
00:46:44You didn't give it to me.
00:46:45You didn't give it to me.
00:46:46You didn't give it to me.
00:46:47You didn't give it to me.
00:46:48You didn't give it to me.
00:46:49I didn't give it to me.
00:46:50You didn't give it to me.
00:46:51You didn't give it to me.
00:46:52I was going to leave the career.
00:46:53And it was a temptation.
00:46:55you made it to me.
00:46:56There had a movie with Amitabh Bachchan ji.
00:46:58Which I didn't give it to me.
00:46:59And then, I just got the reason.
00:47:01And then, it just happened.
00:47:02It happened that there weren't any chance to me.
00:47:03They met him in a film.
00:47:04So, you didn't give it to me?
00:47:06You didn't give it to me.
00:47:07I didn't give it to me.
00:47:09I thought of it.
00:47:10And so, with a temptation.
00:47:12And it was such a temptation.
00:47:14There came the film with Amitabh Bachchan Ji.
00:47:15And then, another South Indian actress had done it.
00:47:20And then, somebody had done that role.
00:47:22But it was very interesting.
00:47:23And I had a conversation with Dugal with my secretary uncle and uncle.
00:47:30I said uncle, my date fixed my date on the 99 Feb.
00:47:36I said I don't want to do it.
00:47:38Think after the film you can do it.
00:47:41I said no uncle.
00:47:43How did Anand meet you?
00:47:46We had a common friend.
00:47:51Anand is a person who is far from the film industry.
00:47:56He is a friend of the film industry.
00:47:59He is a friend of the film industry.
00:48:02Andy Balraj.
00:48:04Anand Balraj.
00:48:06Anand Balraj was Anand's very good friend.
00:48:09And in those days I was shooting Andy.
00:48:12In the Hafta Vasuli film.
00:48:15Jackie Shroff, Andy, me.
00:48:17We were shooting.
00:48:19We were shooting in the film industry.
00:48:24And then he had dinner with Anand.
00:48:28So, there was a conversation with him.
00:48:31Where were you?
00:48:32I was shooting.
00:48:33Who are you shooting?
00:48:34Who are you shooting?
00:48:35Who are you shooting?
00:48:36I am shooting.
00:48:37And another moment.
00:48:38He had just gone to Singapore.
00:48:39Anand.
00:48:40Before meeting Andy, that dinner.
00:48:41He had just come back from Singapore.
00:48:42And in Singapore my film, he saw the film of I.Dil Jale ono decha.
00:48:46And in Singapore.
00:48:47I believe he thought.
00:48:49He says to me.
00:48:50I don't know if I want to believe him or not.
00:48:52But Anand tells me.
00:48:53or not but Anand tells me okay he didn't see Roja oh he hadn't seen Roja because
00:49:00you know and Roja he didn't see me and he liked me and then when he
00:49:11came and had dinner with Andy Andy that very day I was shooting with Andy in the
00:49:17day okay so he must have talked and the Anand universe conspired Anand said
00:49:22to shoot me for my company Madhu so Andy came with a business proposal
00:49:28that my friend is his company and he wants to engage for you and then I said
00:49:37talk to my father and I haven't seen the photos of my dad today
00:49:42I have to be honest I know that's what he and the family would have wanted
00:49:48that's what he and the family would have wanted
00:49:54what chara the Shire whoa looking to the credit
00:50:06kubhi okay moosey now on and now on ke parents mommy papa Nicky about me okay I
00:50:13don't want to work in fact mommy still works my mother-in-law still works
00:50:17everyday so she understood every girl must work except I'm not sure that as an
00:50:25actress they wanted me to work or not
00:50:27but because I already reached that place emotionally I said I will not work
00:50:34but to be honest I was running for my family because I had been engaged in the
00:50:38October 97, April and Anand got this time for June or July with that campaign and that
00:50:39in October 97 we were engaged and in October I was engaged in Navaratri and Diwali and I was
00:50:45engaged in the October I was also engaged in the October of
00:50:56Navaratri and Diwali and I asked my family for the time and I was I wanted to bring my friends to
00:51:01I will settle down and never go back, so this was what I said and they never said it.
00:51:11But Anand's family, Juhi Chawla is also there, Anand's cousin is married to Juhi, Jay Mehta.
00:51:22So, Juhi has never left the job, and they also work in their house, so did you have any influence on Juhi?
00:51:33No, I was taking my own experience.
00:51:38At that time, I wanted to be a mother and live in a family.
00:51:44And my vision today has expanded and expanded.
00:51:50I wanted to make a small family.
00:51:52At that time, I always wanted to be a small family.
00:51:55In truth, I wanted to be a small family, my children, I will go to school, I will go to school, I will go to school.
00:52:03This was all my dream.
00:52:05So, I came from my experience and I didn't want anything.
00:52:09I don't want anything.
00:52:11Is it anything to do with your mother, that you lost your mother early, so therefore you wanted that, you couldn't have that fulfilling life with your mother?
00:52:24You know, you know, you think that was what you wanted to do with your mother?
00:52:27You know, you know, this was all language, Bharati Ji.
00:52:29That was the, you know, psychotherapy.
00:52:31If it was incomplete, then you wanted to be a full-fuel.
00:52:33Yes, yes.
00:52:34Psychotherapy, psychology, I didn't think about it.
00:52:35Psychoanalysis.
00:52:36Yes, I didn't want to try all the different copies of all the victims.
00:52:56So I was waiting for the children to my family.
00:53:00But I told you some people to share this.
00:53:01I can't see you in the world.
00:53:04You can see the ad in a cat mirror.
00:53:05You can see the lines being shared.
00:53:06You can see that thing.
00:53:07I am not afraid.
00:53:08I am feeling weak.
00:53:09I am feeling vulnerable.
00:53:10I don't because you know I see the strength.
00:53:11You have the security.
00:53:12I have the security.
00:53:13To answer you.
00:53:14I don't know what I have felt you.
00:53:17But the opportunity that I got.
00:53:19I got the opportunity to get the opportunity that I do.
00:53:24I have the security.
00:53:26To answer you.
00:53:28In fact, my mother-in-law, my mother-in-law had a house in my mother-in-law, she had two children.
00:53:45When the daughter-in-law was married, the mother-in-law would not bring her home and leave her home.
00:53:52I would only have dinner or lunch and stay with them.
00:53:56Only then I would have a good relationship with my daughters-in-law.
00:53:59They had to think about it.
00:54:01They had the planning of the house.
00:54:03They told me that you will stay in this house after the marriage.
00:54:07I said, no.
00:54:08I will stay in your house and stay in your bedroom.
00:54:14I will stay in that house.
00:54:16I still live in a joint family.
00:54:18Although all the other apartments are there.
00:54:21But I still live because I wanted a mother and a father.
00:54:25And you are happy with your choice.
00:54:27I am so happy.
00:54:28Because what a support I got with my daughters.
00:54:31I would go outside but I would leave my dad with me.
00:54:34I am so secure.
00:54:36I am so secure.
00:54:37I am so secure.
00:54:38And you know what I wanted to do with my mother-in-law.
00:54:39I wanted someone to ask me when you are at home.
00:54:41The girls are all rebellious.
00:54:42Why do you ask?
00:54:43Why do you ask?
00:54:44Why do you ask?
00:54:45Why do you ask?
00:54:46Why do you ask?
00:54:47But they want that caring also.
00:54:49My mother-in-law when I came to party at night at 1-2-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3.
00:54:56And I felt lovely about it.
00:54:57How is it that you have maintained yourself so well?
00:54:58Because you have grown up daughters now.
00:54:59What are you doing now?
00:55:00Yes.
00:55:01What are you doing now?
00:55:02Yes.
00:55:03Yes.
00:55:04Yes.
00:55:05Yes.
00:55:06Yes.
00:55:07Yes.
00:55:08Yes.
00:55:09Yes.
00:55:10Yes.
00:55:11Yes.
00:55:12Yes.
00:55:13Yes.
00:55:14Yes.
00:55:15Yes.
00:55:16Yes.
00:55:17Yes.
00:55:18Yes.
00:55:19Yes.
00:55:20Yes.
00:55:21Yes.
00:55:22Yes.
00:55:23Yes.
00:55:24Yes.
00:55:25Yes.
00:55:26Okay.
00:55:27Yes.
00:55:28Yes.
00:55:29Yes.
00:55:30Yes.
00:55:31Yes.
00:55:35Oh my God.
00:55:44Yes.
00:55:45Yes.
00:55:46Yes.
00:55:48Yes.
00:55:49My husband is engaged to be married.
00:55:51is Kea and she wants to be an actor okay graduate okay Joven a Papa never
00:55:58secata graduate or job with Joker you can don't only be up knee training
00:56:02Jari lucky Lakata addiction in the dance will get a cut the area and now she's
00:56:09back and God willing we will put your other daughter my doesn't want to be an
00:56:17master she wants to get married and not have a career no as of now not a film
00:56:22career for sure and she's an intellectual highly most clever person in
00:56:27the family okay but right now she's in that euphoria to
00:56:33after you do see baby hey your family is all right with it
00:56:36king go actor when a chatty my family is the most amazing family Bharti ji my
00:56:40slay any carry you can come up to some a camera case on my bad career you up
00:56:44juhi ji se bhi pooch le she will also say that the families that we've gotten
00:56:49married into her family my family it's all we are all one one we have the most
00:56:54amazing mothers-in-law's ke unko mother-in-law kane se mujh asa lakta
00:56:59minh unki insult karri you man mommy kati ho or juhi bhi yes for five ako
00:57:05mommy he kati hain mujhe maalum hai juhi ni mujhe kaafi kis se bata hai about
00:57:11her mother-in-law and what a wonderful person she is and that is the family we
00:57:15are in because I think in udar unki mother-in-law
00:57:19nai bhi kaha tha ki aap you have to continue it's
00:57:22what love you have to continue working you have to continue being who you are
00:57:25yeah my family will not I'm they they are protective they probably don't want
00:57:33care to come in the industry because this industry as beautiful as it is so you I
00:57:40and everybody knows it's a very hard place
00:57:42ah piyar milta hai toh bohut acha lakta hai
00:57:45aur us piyar ko badaltay badaltay wakt nahi lagta
00:57:48ah aur phir kaise apne mental health ko
00:57:51mai toh bach ke nikal gai kyunki pehle
00:57:53meri dost, ah school friends or joe meri community thi
00:57:57or meri papa thai, meri bhai thai
00:58:00toh mental health ka conversation nahi hota tha
00:58:03Aar aaj joe meri family i am very secure
00:58:06kam melet toh fantastic kam nahi milet toh
00:58:08mnet travel kertte huk, maze leet toh
00:58:11so, main ikal gai bach ke, but it's not so easy
00:58:13aur aaj ka jo digital world joh hai
00:58:16social media pe loog apke hath mein apke
00:58:20mtlb, mai apne time peh film magazine ko unit ghar mein haane nahi döhti thi
00:58:24film fair magazine, cniblitz magazine, stardust ko main dhekhti nahi thi
00:58:29I didn't open my 10 friends, because I didn't know what criticism was written in my family.
00:58:41My family says that they don't want to enter.
00:58:46Because in my time, people wrote in magazines.
00:58:51It was in my control of what to see or not.
00:58:56But today, there are comments on our social media.
00:59:00There are so many things.
00:59:03You really have to feel strong about it.
00:59:07In this industry, every time, we are all human beings.
00:59:11Some days you look good, some days you don't look good.
00:59:14Some days you look good.
00:59:16Some days you don't wear color suits.
00:59:19Or weight will become a little bit.
00:59:22In every single thing you are getting trolled.
00:59:27And famous you are getting more famous.
00:59:30Because you are walking in gym.
00:59:33People who are watching you, are watching you in the airport.
00:59:36People who are watching you, know you.
00:59:38So there are advantages and disadvantages.
00:59:41Advantages are a lot of fun.
00:59:43I have a lot of advantages in social media.
00:59:46that's the advantage the disadvantage is that people can say something and it will come
01:00:03straight to you and to ignore it or to ignore it or to ignore it or to ignore it or to take
01:00:11the power of that power that you have to build that strength we can work a generation he
01:00:19grown up with it know I love it if you are saying that if it is right then it is a very
01:00:26good thing but i have seen this word as depression anxiety you know this is you
01:00:32know panic attacks in the 90s we were failing and flop
01:00:36but the anxiety that we didn't have to do so this is the language that changed
01:00:44today we want to save our children but I know that if my daughter is watching
01:00:52we will support her and stand by her if she is talented and if my god wants it
01:00:59she will do what she needs to do
01:01:01the films are very different from the films that you have done and Hema ji have done
01:01:08scenes are very intimate and intimate scenes are you ready for your daughter to do those?
01:01:15is she ready?
01:01:18you feel like listening to me
01:01:22because you have never done it
01:01:25Hema ji has never done it
01:01:28I have never done anything for her
01:01:31I have never chosen any film
01:01:34the film is chosen
01:01:35and the film is chosen
01:01:37and the film is chosen
01:01:39and what happened was not happened
01:01:41but I didn't choose
01:01:43I wanted to stay busy
01:01:45one criteria was that explicit scenes and explicit clothing
01:01:51these two are the requirement in your face
01:01:54I will not do it
01:01:55that's the only thing I followed that rule
01:01:58so it was also explicit kissing
01:02:01even though kissing is a very sweet romantic gesture
01:02:06but for me it was something that my father will not be able to watch it
01:02:10and my makers respected that
01:02:14my producers respected that
01:02:16everybody knew that
01:02:17and nobody even came with that
01:02:19now we are in today's generation
01:02:21it is something
01:02:23every girl is doing it
01:02:28because that's the way they communicate love
01:02:31now as parents we have to accept it
01:02:36if my daughter is coming in this line
01:02:38and if she is doing all of her contemporary
01:02:42then how would my daughter say that I will not do it
01:02:45you have done it
01:02:46I asked my daughter
01:02:49that baby
01:02:50are you ready?
01:02:51can you do that?
01:02:52I don't think she is giving it a full
01:02:55I don't think she is understanding it
01:02:57as of now
01:02:58she is thinking
01:02:59dialogue
01:03:00diction
01:03:01acting
01:03:02dancing
01:03:03is what it is
01:03:04let's do it
01:03:07let's do it
01:03:08if it doesn't
01:03:09we will not do it
01:03:10it's her choice
01:03:11if she can't bear it
01:03:12she won't do it
01:03:13you will cross the bridge
01:03:14you will cross the bridge
01:03:15when you come to it
01:03:16when it comes and the yeses and noes are up to her
01:03:17correct
01:03:18because we are
01:03:19I am
01:03:20my children tell me
01:03:21mama you pretend
01:03:22you think you are a very cool mother
01:03:24you are very cool
01:03:25but you are the most non-cool person
01:03:27and I think I am very non-cool
01:03:29when my children are concerned
01:03:31I am the one who was my mother
01:03:32I am the one who was my mother
01:03:33I am the one who was my mother
01:03:35and my husband
01:03:38and if I am a little liberal
01:03:41and understanding
01:03:42because I am from the industry
01:03:43so I have a little understanding
01:03:45my husband
01:03:46and my mother
01:03:49and my father
01:03:50how will they tolerate
01:03:51and see
01:03:52and see
01:03:54she will cross the bridge
01:03:55when we come to it
01:03:56but
01:03:59if I have seen the reactions
01:04:00I have seen before
01:04:01so I can understand
01:04:02that
01:04:03I am very honest
01:04:08this is my truth
01:04:09you know
01:04:11you are extremely well maintained
01:04:13You know, you are extremely well-maintained.
01:04:18No one will say that you are going to be the same.
01:04:21Very, very well-maintained.
01:04:23And Akshay Kumar, who you are as a hero,
01:04:26and now you have a picture.
01:04:28And he is doing a guest appearance.
01:04:30Yes, Karnapa.
01:04:31So he also said, in the public,
01:04:34that she lives in a refrigerator because she is so well-maintained.
01:04:39Yes.
01:04:41I am totally into well-being.
01:04:43Okay.
01:04:44And I said that after 3-4 years of marriage,
01:04:50I have reversed my identity.
01:04:53I became an actor.
01:04:55And I always watch myself as an actor.
01:04:59When I go out of my house and out of my bedroom,
01:05:02I watch myself as an actor.
01:05:04When the whole world was in lockdown,
01:05:07I used my lipstick and kajal to sit at home.
01:05:11My kids were laughing.
01:05:13Mama, where are you going?
01:05:14Are you going out for lunch?
01:05:16Don't believe this.
01:05:17Because when I see myself, I see myself.
01:05:20You see the actor.
01:05:21I see myself.
01:05:22And this is an actor's face.
01:05:24So, to answer your question,
01:05:27I do everything to keep myself ready.
01:05:30What Elizabeth Gilbert says,
01:05:32her word of genius.
01:05:36Genius is not you.
01:05:38Genius is something that's flying around,
01:05:41which sits on you.
01:05:43It connects with,
01:05:45that connects with you,
01:05:46and magic comes out.
01:05:48So, you keep yourself ready,
01:05:50and wait for that moment to sit on you.
01:05:52So, I keep myself as an actor ready.
01:05:55And when someone chooses a role,
01:05:58I am ready for that moment.
01:06:01That's why I do everything.
01:06:05From mental health,
01:06:06from sleep,
01:06:07from water,
01:06:08from yoga,
01:06:09from how to keep myself happy.
01:06:11My only purpose in life,
01:06:13is not that,
01:06:14that I will make this,
01:06:15that I will make this,
01:06:16that I will make this.
01:06:17My only purpose in life,
01:06:18is how to be happy,
01:06:20every day.
01:06:21And for that,
01:06:22whatever I have to do today,
01:06:23I will do.
01:06:24And you are a very happy person.
01:06:26I try to keep myself,
01:06:28in that zone.
01:06:29The world tries very hard,
01:06:31to make me unhappy.
01:06:34There are many things,
01:06:36or not,
01:06:37that I pull down.
01:06:39Then I ask myself,
01:06:41that question to you.
01:06:42I've lost my calm,
01:06:43I've lost my peace,
01:06:44I've lost my balance,
01:06:45I've lost my happiness.
01:06:47How do I find my happiness?
01:06:48What should I do at that time?
01:06:50That I bring myself back to it.
01:06:52Then I get my answer.
01:06:54Sometimes,
01:06:55I say,
01:06:56I drink a drink with a friend.
01:06:57I might become happy.
01:06:58Give me a phone with a friend.
01:07:00Or,
01:07:01go on to travel.
01:07:02Or,
01:07:03do yoga.
01:07:04Or,
01:07:05do sports.
01:07:06Or,
01:07:07do retail.
01:07:08I get my answer,
01:07:09I get my answer,
01:07:10to be happy in that moment.
01:07:11And,
01:07:12the rest of the things,
01:07:13that will happen,
01:07:14that will happen,
01:07:15that will happen,
01:07:16that will happen.
01:07:17I don't want to be unhappy.
01:07:19You married a very well-to-do person,
01:07:22which of course,
01:07:23was not the criterion.
01:07:24But,
01:07:25he happens to be well-to-do.
01:07:27And,
01:07:28you've travelled a lot.
01:07:29Which place is good?
01:07:30Where do you like to go?
01:07:31I love to see magical phenomena of the world.
01:07:44And,
01:07:45I don't see many things.
01:07:46Northern lights.
01:07:47Yes.
01:07:48Because,
01:07:49my family,
01:07:50somehow manages to travel,
01:07:51only to,
01:07:52big cities.
01:07:53And,
01:07:54do all those,
01:07:55you know,
01:07:56very rarely,
01:07:57I have seen,
01:07:58things.
01:07:59But,
01:08:00actually,
01:08:01that's what I love to do.
01:08:02But,
01:08:03having said that,
01:08:04I am a very scared person.
01:08:06I don't plan my travel.
01:08:07And,
01:08:08I don't like to go alone anywhere.
01:08:10I like that comfort of my family.
01:08:12And,
01:08:13my very close people.
01:08:14So,
01:08:15if they go to Singapore,
01:08:17and,
01:08:18and,
01:08:19and,
01:08:20and,
01:08:21and,
01:08:22I feel happy.
01:08:23You know,
01:08:24but,
01:08:25I want to go to Northern Lights,
01:08:27and,
01:08:28and,
01:08:29I want to go to Northern Lights.
01:08:30But,
01:08:31I haven't done many things.
01:08:32I will do.
01:08:33But,
01:08:34I am very happy,
01:08:35just going,
01:08:36somewhere,
01:08:37where my family is there.
01:08:38And,
01:08:39you know what I enjoy?
01:08:40And,
01:08:41you know,
01:08:42that,
01:08:43you know,
01:08:44that joy of traveling together,
01:08:45is what I love,
01:08:46more than the destination.
01:08:47I have no bucket list,
01:08:48and no destination.
01:08:49Okay.
01:08:50I have no bucket list.
01:08:51No bucket list left.
01:08:52No bucket list.
01:08:53I don't make,
01:08:54but,
01:08:55why bucket list?
01:08:56Yeah,
01:08:57Joe,
01:08:58Joe,
01:08:59Joe,
01:09:00Joe,
01:09:01Joe,
01:09:02Joe,
01:09:03Joe,
01:09:04Joe,
01:09:05Joe,
01:09:06Joe,
01:09:07Joe,
01:09:08Joe,
01:09:09Joe,
01:09:10Joe,
01:09:12Joe,
01:09:13Joe,
01:09:14Joe,
01:09:15Joe,
01:09:16Joe,
01:09:17I
01:09:20mean,
01:09:20excellent.
01:09:21You have no idea.
01:09:23But,
01:09:24you know,
01:09:26I'm so convinced.
01:09:33So,
01:09:38see that happen nicely my younger daughter wants a career so I wanted to
01:09:42find that whatever so my that thing they say I wanted to be an actor I wanted to
01:09:48be married well and have a family I want to see that same joy for my children
01:09:52that's not bucket list bucket list is that I will see Northern Lights, I will do this, I will buy them
01:09:58I don't have those that bucket list you know I don't have the do's the
01:10:02materialistic bucket list you don't have I just want joy for my and peace and
01:10:08well-being for my family you know just some time back India went through this
01:10:14horrible attack on civilians yeah on tourists in Pailgam and Modi ji being the
01:10:21strong prime minister that we have, he has a good answer, what are your thoughts about this?
01:10:30you know I always play neutral as a personality I am non-controversial I like to
01:10:36not attract trouble to myself with my comments or not too much I don't think about that
01:10:42I don't think about that much I can't be contribution to it but I feel
01:10:50sometimes that attitude that I don't think it is healthy and if I am like that I have to change I have to have the courage to be who I really believe
01:11:03And I think that as much as I believe as non-aggressive person or personality or situation,
01:11:11I believe that non-retaliation is always a weakness.
01:11:18And it requires retaliation to put everybody in place.
01:11:25But the cost of retaliation is high.
01:11:29And the cost that we pay for retaliation, the collateral damage, that is very heartbreaking.
01:11:38After that, how do we retaliate?
01:11:42Only in retaliation, you have to defend yourself.
01:11:45Defend, correct.
01:11:46You have to retaliate for retaliation sometimes.
01:11:48It's not just about holding people back.
01:11:50Sometimes you have to push them back.
01:11:53So all this is a very sensitive matter.
01:11:56And I am really supporting Modi ji.
01:11:59Because I feel, right or wrong, we can debate a lot.
01:12:05For those who wanted to do this or not.
01:12:08Debates can be a lot.
01:12:10Sides can be a lot.
01:12:11But the man in power has the courage to do something.
01:12:15And for that person, I respect that person.
01:12:19Sometimes they do wrong, sometimes they don't do it.
01:12:22Sometimes they go over, sometimes they don't do it.
01:12:24Sometimes they don't do it.
01:12:25Sometimes they don't do it.
01:12:26Sometimes they don't do it.
01:12:27There are many discussions or debates.
01:12:28But the man who is at the helm of it all, I am very happy that he is our leader today.
01:12:34So hats off to Modi ji.
01:12:36So would it be right to say that in your bucket list, you don't have becoming a politician like Hema ji?
01:12:43Acting, dancing, don't know what Hema ji did you have done.
01:12:47But two daughters, same thing.
01:12:51Two daughters.
01:12:52Yeah.
01:12:53Yeah.
01:12:54You know, so somehow she has inspired me.
01:12:55Yeah.
01:12:56I also toy with the idea of becoming a politician.
01:12:59But now, not because Hema ji is doing.
01:13:02Not because that is a nicer thing to do.
01:13:04Because acting, you don't know whether you can be an actor always.
01:13:07It's always dependent on some assignments and all that.
01:13:11So I don't.
01:13:12There is a lot of time.
01:13:13So how do you fill up the time?
01:13:15What do you do?
01:13:16Do you do business?
01:13:17What do I do?
01:13:18Politician.
01:13:19Seems to be very easy.
01:13:20Because there is a stage and you talk and you convey.
01:13:24So I thought that would be my natural progression.
01:13:27So I have had those conversations with a few people in the past.
01:13:30Including Hema ji?
01:13:31Including Hema ji.
01:13:32Hema ji told me to think nicely.
01:13:34She says, in fact, she told me a very nice thing.
01:13:37Why do you want to become a politician?
01:13:39That is a very important question.
01:13:41She said, if you want to become a politician just to, you know, be in the public zone.
01:13:49Or whatever.
01:13:50For the power.
01:13:51Power.
01:13:52Fame.
01:13:53All that.
01:13:54She says, I am not sure.
01:13:55She says, why do you want to be a politician?
01:13:58You must know your why.
01:13:59And then.
01:14:00And then go.
01:14:01And then proceed.
01:14:02So I asked myself why.
01:14:04One thing I know.
01:14:05That there are many things that a politician needs to do.
01:14:08It is something that is not in alignment with who I am.
01:14:12Okay.
01:14:13But there are many things I would like to do.
01:14:15With which a power person, which a person in power with a voice can do.
01:14:20So I have to find that balance.
01:14:22Can I do this?
01:14:23Can I not do this?
01:14:24How?
01:14:25So at this point, I have put that in the back burner.
01:14:28To be very honest, I am enjoying the position of becoming an actor again.
01:14:32Yeah.
01:14:33I have done some amazing roles in the last two years.
01:14:36And things that I am expecting to come in this year are even better than the ones that
01:14:41have come out in the past.
01:14:42Okay.
01:14:43For example, I have done this film called Chinna Chinna Aase which will also release in Hindi.
01:14:47It's something that was magical when I was doing it.
01:14:50I have never felt like that before.
01:14:52I explored.
01:14:53And I have done one Telugu which will also release Amazon.
01:14:58There is a web series.
01:15:00I have completed season one as a matriarch of a music house.
01:15:05So that role with Prakash Rajji in the male dominant role and me being the matriarch was too powerful.
01:15:15And I feel very humbled and grateful.
01:15:20As I said, I do not choose my role.
01:15:23In my hand, I will say yes or no.
01:15:26But those who are taking the role, they have envisioned me in that role.
01:15:31And also, I have not been in the industry.
01:15:34There is a progression in an artist's life.
01:15:36You will see me doing this.
01:15:38Then the other person says that you give this role.
01:15:41Because there are other actors who are in my age group.
01:15:45They are very established and experienced actors.
01:15:48And all of them are well maintained.
01:15:50Very naturally and very naturally.
01:15:52With a little help.
01:15:53With a little help.
01:15:54With a little help.
01:15:55With a little help.
01:15:56That's my bitchiness.
01:15:57What's life without a little bitchiness?
01:15:58Exactly.
01:15:59Little spice.
01:16:00I am a southern spice.
01:16:01I am a southern siren.
01:16:02I am a southern siren.
01:16:03Yeah.
01:16:04As long as I do spirituality, they are not siren.
01:16:08Anyway.
01:16:09So, there are other people also who could have the roles.
01:16:11They could have the roles.
01:16:12But they came to me.
01:16:13Yes, I am a Southern Siren, as much as spirituality, it is not a siren, anyway, so there are other people also who could meet those roles, but they came to me, and I am waiting for them to come out, so I am very excited that after watching them, what is that web series, what is the name of the web series, Soul of Music,
01:16:42it is called Soul of Music, and what is it called Kannapa? Kannapa is again Pan India, one thing is that any film is released in all languages, and the second category is that some film is made in Pan India,
01:17:03it is not a stage, it is going to be that Pan India, this is one of those, like Bahubali and RRR, it is like that, Magna film, so every state of established actors, like Kannapa has Akshay Kumar representing our industry,
01:17:22Kajal Agarwal, Mohan Lal Ji, Mohan Babu Ji, so you know, and myself, and Mukesh Rishi Ji, you know, so they have got all these actors, from all the states, okay, and historical mythology film,
01:17:42and I am a warrior, and I am a warrior, and cameo, because there are so many actors, but as I said,
01:17:52Bharti Ji, I see myself as an actor, and I prepare myself as an actor every day, so people thought that she is looking quite frail, or thin, or whatever, so this is a warrior queen,
01:18:06and there are war scenes, so this is how will she be, you know, but I am every day workout, and you know,
01:18:14and today, you will know that strength training is very strong, so I have done, and I do strength training,
01:18:21so I have done, and I do strength training, so I have done, and I do the strength training, so I have done, and I do the strength training,
01:18:25and I really felt that I carried them out well, I was prepared, so I didn't have to practice on set, I was prepared to do that,
01:18:33so I felt very, I felt very happy about it, so it's, I am very excited, that role, it's a small role, it's a cameo,
01:18:42Okay, you did Kartam Bhaktam also, didn't it? Yes. Did you enjoy that? Yes. You know why?
01:18:48If you have seen it, you have seen it, that in the beginning of the film, there was no makeup,
01:18:56a poor lady, then you will see that the character's transition, it was ultra glamour,
01:19:03and then you will see that the negative villain, his face, the cosmetic surgery,
01:19:09botched, with the supernatural, it's astonishing, and there's so many people who are in the 90s,
01:19:13and the main actors in the 90s, do it? Yes.
01:19:14What role you got in that actor, is to make yourself ugly? Yes.
01:19:24But to make yourself ugly to make yourself visibly ugly actually I was very proud of that film but that film I don't think it hit the mark but my character who took no make up look
01:19:49So I feel that I got that whole range to do it and I did it with the prosthetics
01:20:08So I was very unsure how to do Madhu and how to allow
01:20:14Director Soham Shah
01:20:16I have told her what you have thought about this character
01:20:23That is what I am doing
01:20:28I am now exploring myself as an actor
01:20:31The actor like Kamal sir
01:20:34All these actors who put on weight, lose weight
01:20:38Shabana
01:20:40Shabana
01:20:42What is your role?
01:20:43I want to be that if I can
01:20:45So for that I have to break my own barrier
01:20:49I am an actress and I have to always look pretty
01:20:52Like I used to wear lipstick in Covid
01:20:56That is my own barrier
01:20:58So for this role play
01:20:59I have to break my own barrier
01:21:03So I feel like that was my triumph
01:21:05Fantastic
01:21:06We are waiting to see you in 2025
01:21:09Such lovely films you are talking about
01:21:13Waiting to see you
01:21:14And really waiting to see the most fulfilled actor in the Hindi film industry
01:21:21I hope not
01:21:22Indian film industry
01:21:23Thank you
01:21:24That is what I want
01:21:25Thank you
01:21:26Because it is really wonderful
01:21:27How many languages you are doing
01:21:29You know
01:21:30And what you are saying
01:21:31That one is being made in South
01:21:33Two or three films in South
01:21:35There is also something
01:21:36You are a part of so many industries
01:21:39I think it is fantastic
01:21:41I feel very humbled and very grateful
01:21:44Nice to see you
01:21:45All the best
01:21:46Thank you
01:21:47Thank you
Comments