It`s educative for kids to have a working mother

ACTIVE TIMES
ACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT
Saturday 2 January 2016
Vidya Don’t have competitive
Balan
streak in me : Farhan Akhtar
turns 37 A
Returns home
A
from hospital
B
ollywood actress Vidya
Balan, who turned 37 on
the New Year’s Day, is
back home after being discharged
from a hospital here. She was
admitted to a hospital after she
faced suspected kidney-related
issues. Vidya took to Twitter on
late Thursday to thank fans for
their “prayers and wishes”. She
even wished a happy New Year
to all. “Grateful to be back home
in time to bring in my birthday.
Thank You for all your love,
prayers and wishes. Happy 2016
to each of you,” Vidya tweeted.
The National Award winner had
plans to celebrate New Year
with her husband and producer
Siddharth Roy Kapur abroad, but
they had to cancel their outing as
she suffered excruciating pain.
ctor Farhan
Akhtar says he
neither believes
in number game nor
has any wish to give
competition to any one in
the film industry. “I don’t
have this competitive
streak in me where I
have to do better than the
others. I hope everybody
does good work as there
is space for everyone
as an actor. I hope
everybody does well,”
Farhan told media in an
interview here. “I don’t
believe in this rat race
of one, two and three. I
hope we collaborate and
encourage each other
in choices of work that
we do. So most of my
friends in the industry,
we don’t discuss
business (box office
numbers) or other things
like that. We discuss
performances,” he said. In his soon-to-be-released film “Wazir”, Farhan plays
an ATS officer and the actor did not leave any stone unturned to get into the
skin of his character. “I did research on how they (ATS officer) train, studied
the protocol they follow, the body language, the way they talk and sit, conceal
what is that they are thinking while talking to someone. All these things were
so nice to bring to the character of Danish Khan,” he said. Farhan may have
directed action films in past, but it was his first stint with the genre as an actor
and according to him he had a fabulous time while shooting. “I had great
time doing action. I have directed action in films, worked closely with action
directors. I did not feel out of the place,” he said. Producer Vidhu Vinod
Chopra was working on “Wazir” since 1980 and narrated the idea to Farhan
while he was working on “Lakshya”. “He (Chopra) told me he is writing a
script and will send it after which I did not hear from him for a very long
time. After that I heard from him recently,” Farhan said. On her co-star Aditi
Rao Hydari, he says, “I have seen few people who work like her. She fills the
screen. She is very competent and easy to work with. She is very professional
(and) comes well prepared,” he added.
Learning a lot
from Abhinay Deo
on ‘Force 2’ set:
Tahir Raj Bhasin
ctor Tahir Raj Bhasin, who will
be seen in director Abhinay Deo’s
“Force 2”, says he has learnt a
lot from the director. The film stars John
Abraham and Sonakshi Sinha in the lead. “It
has been a good number of days that we’ve
been shooting together and it has been a
blast on the sets with John, Sonakshi and
the cast and crew. It’s been great learning so
much from our director Abhinay Deo,” Tahir
said. Deo, who directed “Delhi Belly”, is
continuing his fondness for the action genre
after helming the action-packed TV show
“24”, starring Anil Kapoor. Since Tahir has
replaced the super fit Vidyut Jammwal as the
baddie from “Force”, the responsibility on
his shoulders to match up to
him is immense. Tahir has
taken up the challenge and
will be seen involved in
some intense and stylised
action sequences opposite
John in the film, which
promises to be bigger than
the first part. The actor
had previously played
a character with a mean
streak as a girl trafficker in
“Mardaani”.
It’s educative for kids to
have a working mother
choice when
She reduced her film appearances out of
mping off
motherhood happened as she never believed in “du
eading
my children and going off to work”. But after spr
actress
her magic on the screen again with “Dilwale”,
film
Kajol is enthused to take on more work in the
ugh.
world now that her daughter and son are old eno
“I
hope I will be seen on screen
more… I’d like to work more
now. I took a break right after ‘My
Name Is Khan’ (2010) because my son was
born and then he was still very young. Now my son is
five years old,” Kajol told media here. “I will be starting
a film in the mid-2016, but no, I am not planning to do
three films a year like Shah Rukh Khan, in any way. I
can’t work as hard as him,” added the actress, whose
effervescence is intact at 41. Kajol and Ajay, who
got married in 1999, are parents to two children –
daughter Nysa and son Yug. After the birth of her
daughter in 2003, she did few films like “Fanaa”, “U
Me Aur Hum”, “My Name Is Khan”, “We Are Family”
and “Toonpur Ka Superhero”. And again, after Yug’s birth, Kajol decided she
would devote her time to motherhood. In fact, in a previous interview to media,
she had confessed that the only reason she gave up films was her children. “I have
not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a
person,” Kajol said back then. But when “Dilwale” came her way, Kajol, a Padma Shri award winner,
said it was her daughter Nysa who urged her to step out of the house and return to face the arclights. “I
honestly think it’s very educative for children to have working parents, and to have a working mother
mostly, because that’s where the influence comes on the girl child.” “When I was a child, I did resent
sometimes that my mother went to work, and I used to tell her, ‘Mom, why can’t you be like other
mothers who are at home and cooking?’ She used to be like ‘No, I have to work. I need to work’.” “At
that point in time, maybe I felt a resentment towards her work, but when I started working, I realised
that the work ethic I have, the way I work, the amount of hard work that I did was only because I had
seen my mother do that all my life.” “So, hence and therefore, I feel that my daughter hopefully
will understand that when she sees her mother go for work… when she grows up, she will realise
that it’s important for her to work as well for her own independence and development,” said the
daughter of veteran actress Tanuja. Generally too, Kajol believes that “it’s important for women
to work”. “In whatever area they choose, women should work. And it doesn’t necessarily have to
be about going out of the house and working. But the work ethic has to be understood that it’s not
only a man’s job to be the breadwinner for the family. That’s where our women’s equality has to start.”
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