00:00You are Hemamalni's cousin, correct?
00:05Yes, my father and Amba were brother and sister.
00:07So that's why Hemamalji and me are cousins.
00:10Cousins, okay, Mama. Sorry, means Jaya Ji's brother is your father.
00:16Yes.
00:17And you are the father and Amba were brother and sister.
00:20So that's why Hemamalji and me are cousins.
00:22Cousins, okay, Mama. Sorry.
00:24Means Jaya Ji's brother is your father.
00:29Yes.
00:30Okay, so you are cousins.
00:31Yes.
00:32So do you call each other by your name?
00:34Yes, yes.
00:35She is always my Hemu.
00:37Hemu, okay.
00:38So in fact, again funny thing happened.
00:41When she later on directed me,
00:44I did one or two films where she was a director,
00:48like Mohini and I did Urvashi for Women of India for Zee.
00:54Right.
00:55So she was a director.
00:56So the first day on the set,
00:58I didn't know what to call her.
01:00So I said, what do I call you?
01:02I call you director Hema Ji.
01:04Hema Ji.
01:05What do I call you?
01:06You have to call me Hemu, right?
01:08She said.
01:09Okay.
01:10Because that's how I have called her as a little girl.
01:12Since you were a kid.
01:13Yeah, that's right.
01:14So you wanted to be an actress?
01:18Yes.
01:19It's a childhood impression.
01:21What you see in your house,
01:23you get impressed with that.
01:24I think that is my only explanation.
01:26Because in my house,
01:27my mum was very ambitious.
01:30As a dancer,
01:31she also became a producer.
01:32Okay.
01:33When my father was still in service,
01:34she couldn't become a producer because he was in the government.
01:37My mother became a producer.
01:38She made a film of two films.
01:40Hema Ji, Dharmendra Ji,
01:42Hema Ji,
01:43they were in lead.
01:44And Dulaal Guha Ji.
01:45He was the director.
01:46He was the director.
01:47He was the director.
01:48And I went to their shooting.
01:51And my mummy.
01:52So she was there,
01:53I will make your film.
01:55I will launch you.
01:56That's what I'm hearing.
01:57Your mummy was saying that.
01:58She was my first dance teacher.
02:03And because I didn't listen to her and I didn't dance well,
02:06she kept me outside.
02:07And she used to beat me.
02:10My mummy,
02:12you know that thing that Bharatanatyam stick.
02:15Yeah.
02:16She used to hit me.
02:18And I would be more angry that my mother was hitting me.
02:22Then she decided that she couldn't become my teacher.
02:25So then she got me Raja Rajasri,
02:27Master Ji to come home and teach me.
02:29And all that happened.
02:30So I saw what dance happens at a very high level.
02:36Then I saw how Hema ji conducts her life.
02:42Who comes to her home.
02:44There are story settings.
02:45There are dance practices.
02:47She used to learn sitar.
02:49I don't know.
02:50I have just observed these two women in my life.
02:53My mother and Hema ji.
02:54And my mother's voice.
02:56You are an actor.
02:58You are an actor.
02:59So I just believed that I am born to be an actor.
03:02So you think that your mother has seen Hema ji and thought that my daughter can't become my daughter.
03:09No, I don't think so.
03:10And that's why she taught Bharatanatyam.
03:13You know that's a part of that.
03:15No, I think that.
03:16You learn Bharatanatyam then you become an actor.
03:19I think I have done my mother's incomplete dream.
03:22She was an actor.
03:23She was an actor.
03:24She was an actor.
03:25She was an actor.
03:26She was an actor.
03:27She was an actor.
03:28She was an actor.
03:29Because she was a dancer.
03:31Like Ramya Prilay Ji Guru Ji.
03:34I think Saroja Devi Ji.
03:37You know that old actress.
03:39I think she danced with her on stage.
03:43They were the same students as Master Ji.
03:46So people told my mother that you look like Saroja Devi.
03:51My mother thought that she looks like Saroja Devi and she should be an actor.
03:54But even your face is a little like Saroja Devi.
03:57You know maybe.
03:59So my mother had a dream that she wanted to achieve a lot in the artistry, artistic world.
04:05Oh so you are okay actually.
04:08So she was dancing on the stage when Amba, we all call Hema ji's mother Amba.
04:14Jaya ji.
04:15Jaya ji.
04:16We all call him Amba.
04:17She was the matriarch of her family.
04:19Right.
04:20So Amba saw my mom dance on stage.
04:23And went backstage and said, I would like your daughter for, I mean Renuka for my brother.
04:30Oh.
04:31So she performed my mom on stage and she brought her into the family.
04:35She was a sister-in-law.
04:36Yes.
04:37So you know what I am saying is, of course then you are watching another gorgeous, talented
04:43human being as Hema.
04:45Right.
04:46Hema ji in the family.
04:47And she herself was.
04:48So one of them would have incomplete dreams.
04:51She wanted to make something else.
04:52Right.
04:53But at that time it would have been married.
04:56Then they saw that Hema ji, she is achieving amazing great heights.
05:02So they thought, why not my daughter?
05:04Right.
05:05So I always feel that I lived my mother's dream.
05:07Your mother's dream.
05:08Yeah.
05:09How sweet of that.
05:10I didn't know that.
05:11What was her influence?
05:12Whether Hema ji was her inspiration or whether her own life was an inspiration, I don't know.
05:18But all in all, I grew up only in that energy.
05:21Okay.
05:22How beautiful.
05:23Do you know that Hema ji had a same start to her career?
05:28Her first film ended after shooting.
05:31Hmm.
05:32She started a film with Shridhar.
05:35And she started a film with Vachan.
05:37Yes.
05:38I will never work in the South.
05:40Yes.
05:41I will never work in the South.
05:42But she did it.
05:43She did it with Shridhar.
05:44She did it with her.
05:45She did it with her.
05:46She did it with her.
05:47Yeah.
05:48She did it with her.
05:49That's what I have heard.
05:50She did it and I asked her once in the interview.
05:52Did you talk about it when he came to you?
05:54She said, no.
05:55I have never asked her and she didn't talk about it.
05:59Like Shridhar, I mean, did you take it out on him in any way?
06:02No, no, not at all.
06:03No?
06:04He gave a nice role to me and he was very sweet, extremely nice.
06:07Okay.
06:08And we never even ever mentioned also that, see you took me in that film and you rejected me.
06:12Talked to me.
06:13Why did you do that?
06:14Never.
06:15Oh, you never talked about it?
06:16We never had a one talk also.
06:17Nothing.
06:18Oh.
06:19Very sweetly we did that.
06:20But did he apologize?
06:21No, nothing.
06:22He also?
06:23So neither of you spoke about it?
06:24Nothing.
06:25As if it never happened.
06:28I want to, I am listening to this for the first time and I connect my life with that person.
06:33Hema ji has been my silent inspiration.
06:36I never learned anything in front of him.
06:40Life lesson.
06:41Okay.
06:42But just watching.
06:43But just an influence, you know.
06:45I have told you that when Shridhar Ji came in front of him, he never said that you rejected me.
06:53In the same way, I came in the industry and I felt very good about myself.
06:58I came with that I.
06:59I came with that taj.
07:00Okay.
07:01I.
07:02I came with that taj.
07:03Okay.
07:04I.
07:05I never did that.
07:06Okay.
07:07Okay.
07:08Okay.
07:09Okay.
07:10Okay.
07:11Okay.
07:12Okay.
07:13I.
07:14I.
07:15I.
07:16I.
07:17I.
07:18I.
07:19I.
07:20I.
07:21I.
07:22After you who caterpilles铆.
07:23I.
07:24I.
07:25I.
07:26that.
07:27The people has rejected you after the film of flowing the time and taking a shot,
07:30I had never given my name to him.
07:33No, I.
07:34Is it okay.
07:35Does it have to be in sync?
07:36It could be before parties to pule and a srdha.
07:36I remember.
07:37I.
07:38I was immature once and I saw him.
07:41The wonderful thing of your zwiner's.
07:44and of course, I was looking forward and not.
07:48Okay.
07:49So, the Affordable of.
07:50I was walking past.
07:51Yes.
07:51When I felt I am a good actor also, I felt that, so yeah, that happened.
07:58But I am surprised that you said that after the shoot, you replaced it after the shoot.
08:06Same thing with Hema Ji.
08:08What was Hemu's reaction when she saw you as an actor?
08:13I have two priceless moments with Hema Ji.
08:19One was when they watched the Roja film.
08:22So Hema Ji's reaction was priceless because she wrote a letter to me saying that she loved it.
08:29And many more to come and all that.
08:32I kept that letter for a long time.
08:34I don't know where.
08:35But that was a special moment.
08:37And then the other one with them was that I worked with them and they directed me.
08:47And there was a camera behind the camera.
08:51And I finished the shot.
08:54And then I had to exit the frame.
09:00And I stopped and I gave a look to the camera and I held a look and then I went.
09:07And Hema Ji forgot to say cut.
09:10Oh.
09:11And then she said cut.
09:13And then she said, you are a very good actress.
09:16Okay.
09:17So this is, you know, these are.
09:19Yes, of course.
09:20These are the priceless.
09:21You are a very good actress.
09:22You are a very good actress.
09:23Good, good actress.
09:24So those moments, you know, you never forget.
09:25Absolutely.
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