Welcome to PINKVILLA Juhi ma'am, Thank you so much once again for joining us on PINKVILLA today.
You've been a successful producer, you're a great actress, no doubt.
you've been a successful entrepreneur too and of course a mother and wife, and all the other role that we play
But tell me which is the most difficult role according to you?
whatever we do, we don't realize that we are doing it for the first time.
when I became actress, I didn't realize what it felt like to be on the sets, what it felt like to be standing in front of
Rishi Kapoor Ji or Amitabh Bachchan Ji, and me trying to say a dialogue
everyday it was new, we were sometimes doing a sad scene, sometimes you're doing a dance number, you're doing
and it's always new. Then again you get married. You don't know what it is like to be married, no matter what anybody says to you.
And then, you have children, where does this come from?
And before I had children, believe me, I did Hum Hai Rahi Pyaar Ke and One Two Ka Four, but I had no fondness for children.
I used to thing what is this, small, dirty kids keeps dancing here and there.
After I had my children, I started looking at children differently totally.
For every child I used to think that brother did he eat the food or no? Are they doing good or no? When they fall sick what their mother's do ?
I started literally thinking about the children on the streets. So it changed me.
Juhi ma'am tell me something, because you got married and then of course you were still working you know
and it's not like you didn't take a subbatical or a break as such. Infact you gave some of the biggest hits after that.
So a lot of your time gets consumed in all these things as well.
Do you ever find your child complaining that mom you're not giving us time or something like that.
There is nothing like a perfect parent. And I know my parents were working, It was was fine.
I am hoping my children also feel that way. I know from my side, I always tried that my shootings are in Mumbai itself.
Or even if I am going, I see there is someone at home to look after.
That's what I say, my mother in law was so wonderful if she said, if you need to go, don't worry, she was there.
Or sometimes my sister-in-law was at home. So they were never left just like that.
And even if I used to go, I used to try my outdoor shoots don't extend beyond 10 days.
I come in between, just for few days, see them, and not because they were saying that come back, because I wanted to see them.
Yeah
So you always try, you always try to juggle your, you always try to balance, you try to
And mostly you feel, somebody helps you and it happens. May not be perfect and it will never be perfect.
Even if you sit at home everyday, your kids will say, what mother, you don't have any other work to do ? You are always behind us.
You know I have spoken to so many actresses who have said, you know
somewhere they felt guilty, that mother's guilt to leave their child home sometimes, Did you ever when you were in that phase?
No, I wouldn't call it guilt. If I look back, I say it's been a roller coaster ride.
It has happen, I was far, and the child got sick at home.
And I was on the phone saying, Oh God! But luckily at that time, my friend was staying over.
And she looked after my son. Or we were still here and my children were in Austria already because they wanted to go skinning.
They reached a day before. And he was unwell the first day
We were still reaching, but then the house keeper of that hotel because that hotel is the same day we have stayed in, since they were little.
Right, so they know them. So she looked after him, my daughter and him were together, they were like 13 and 14.
But then, they shipped in and they helped him, we were there the next day so,
It's always worked out for the best is what I say. It works out and it works out and that's what we have to remember that
There is really no perfect moment and no perfect life. And it's okay.
Juhi ma'am, How do you manage to keep them away from paps and all the lime light because
like you have been simple, you have kept your children also very simple, you know. They are not usually paped, and they are not all over the internet also.
They're very reserved, just like you.
I didn't plan again. it's not my planning. It just happened that way.
They themselves, I mean they've access to internet. They could be on it if they wished.
But if they don't wish it, I can't inforce it on them.
They are almost like, we don't need this. Mom
And actually when they used to go out with me, they get disturbed.
I used to go to their school annual fair and all and I
So people will meet me and want to talk to me, somebody wants to take a photograph, somebody says something.
So I am stuck there. and they wanted to go on rides, they wanted to go there and I am stuck.
She is not moving only, I say I have to be nice, I cannot not be nice, these are your school people and
So they used to get annoyed with me, and then they didn't want to come out with me anywhere.
My son clearly says, he says Mom, please don't mind, he is grown up a little so he says
Mom, don't mind, I don't watch your films and he has never watched my old films, even if I say come let's watch Hum Hai Rahi Pyaar Ke.
He says, is there any romance in it? So I am like yeah, I mean you always have a hero and a heroine and then do whatever but it's a lot of fun.
He is like Mom it's very cringe to watch you with anybody else, so please can we just not see it.
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Are they also willing to follow your footsteps at any point? Do they show any interest for say when it comes to acting.
Or anything related to showbiz business at all?
Of course, I will be very happy if they join the film industry.
But I had be happy, if they did what made them happy. I only want them to do that.
And they are, you know like I feel that at their age, I didn't even go out of India.
But they've finished travelling all the continent on this planet already.
They have seen so much, they' are studied abroad, studying abroad rather.
And whatever it is, I would always want, What they want is what I will want.
How sweet. yeah, Thank you, Thank you so much Juhi ma'am.
Thank you so much Bhavna, and we will meet again sometime.