Summary While giving an interview before, Kajol revealed that she took a break from films for her children.
(Web Desk) – Indian actress Kajol has said that she is now more enthusiastic and passionate to take on more films as her children are now grown up.
“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 IANS.
“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.
The actress, who recently made her comeback on the screen after five years in ‘Dilwale’ opposite Shahrukh Khan, has two children - daughter Nysa and son Yug.
While giving an interview before, Kajol revealed that she took a break from films for 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.
Talking about her daughter, she said that it was infact Nysa who urged her to work in ‘Dilwale’.
Kajol believes that it is very educative for the children to have a working mother as it imparts a good influence.
“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.
She also showed her support and insistence 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.”
