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“I wish I could approach the happiest moment of my life with more positivity,” Aditya Narayan On Parenthood During The Pandemic
Singer-anchor Aditya Narayan remembers that exact moment when he found out his wife Shweta was pregnant.
“I was shooting for Indian Idol in Daman and when we came back to Mumbai my wife Shweta was behaving strangely, lots of moodswings and all. I had never seen her like this in the past. I told her to get herself tested for pregnancy. She told me to stop pulling her leg. ‘Just because I am a little moody doesn’t mean I am pregnant.’ But she was,” Adtya laughed.
Aditya says he is very happy . “I’ve always loved children. I always wanted my own child…no make that ,children;and when you find the ideal life partner you want children all the more.”
However with the joy comes the trepidation. “ There is anxiety. I mean, even if we weren’t living in scary times there would’ve been some anxiety about being parents for the first time. But now all the more. We’ve to be very careful.”
Aditya had planned for parenthood from before marrige. “The good part is, I had made plans for parenthood from before we got married. I knew we would need more space, a bigger house . Firstly because Shweta came with her belongings and needed space. Secondly because we were sure we wanted children “
Aditya feels there is added stress. “Kaam toh karna padega. Bills have to be paid. At the same time the Covid has become highly contagious though very very mild. Plus being in front of the camera you are the only one without a mask because you can’t shoot with a mask. It’s scary : while I am shooting the air-conditioning is circulating the same air. All this is weighing on my mind ,more so now when soon I’ll be coming home to a baby.”
Luckily Aditya has a large house that’s almost ready. “There’s an extra room for me where I will be quarantined after I return from shooting.To have your newly born child in the next room… It will be very tough to keep myself away. But kya karen? Waqt hi kuch aisa hai.I will have to get myself tested regularly.Shweta and I will be very careful. I wish I could approach the happiest moment of my life with more positivity.”
Aditya grew up as a single child, hence pampered? “My parents definitely pampered me as best as they could. You know, my father started getting his fame and fortune only after I was born. My parents have really struggled to bring me up well. I didn’t feel like I was living affluently. But my parents deprived me of nothing. They did their level-best to give me everything I wanted. My father was stricter than my mother because he came from a very humble background and knew what it was like to be in need constantly. My mother was an air hostess on Air India .She got me small gifts from all over the world. Yes they took good care of me.I am ever-grateful to them.”
So is Aditya going to be a strict parent? “I don’t have it in me to be strict with my child. But I will make sure it is disciplined. I will definitely inculcate the values that I grew up with: that you need to be focused and consistent in order to get anywhere in life. It doesn’t matter what he or she would want to be. But one must be iron-willed and determined to get somewhere in life. The good part is, I’ve always led a focussed life , so my child would emulate my lifestyle.I always hero-worshipped my father. So I presume my child will do the same with me.Shweta will be the strict parents. I’ve seen her with my dogs and with children. She will be a wonderful mother.”
Aditya started off as a child actor. But he didn’t miss out on a normal childhood. “Honestly I wouldn’t want it any other way. Because all my experiences during my childhood have helped me to be the person that I am.I’ve done all the normal things as a child while working. Maybe I haven’t done as much of it as other children. But I had a healthy childhood specially from 13-18 when I has taken a break from show business to focus on my secondary education.”
Aditya and Shweta are now looking forward to parenthood. “The baby is due anytime now in February. We will be very stringent about the baby’s safety. Apart from me everyone else will be home-confined including the staff. It will be a little difficult for me to keep a distance from my wife and child. Even though Iwill be in the same house I will be in another room. What to do? If there is anyone jeopardizing my child’s safety it will be me. I have to work.Life has to go on.I will have monitors in my room to see my wife and baby. It will be tough. Let’s see how it goes.”
He plans to cut down on his workload after the baby is born. “I am trying to finish my pending work before the baby is born. But glitches keep happening: curfews, cancellations, restrictions. I am grateful I planned for a bigger house. We will be shifting in a month. I’ve studio set up at home also. I will stay at home as much as I can. Thankfully I don’t need to step out for music recordings. But I am cutting down on live shows. Travelling is very scary. Shooting for a reality show is preferable,given that one is confined to one place.But performing live for thousands during times of Covid? No thanks!”
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Shabana Azmi Breaks Her Wrist, Flies To Budapest For Spielberg

Shabana Azmi’s commitment to getting it right, no matter what it takes, is by now beyond legendary. She is known to go to extreme lengths for her characters, the quick-reference what-Shabana-can-do-for-a-role film being Shyam Benegal’s Mandi where she had put on 30 kgs to look like a ‘Madame’ and convey her message in a brothel.
Now , Shabana flies to Budapest on the night of 8 February in spite of having broken her wrist.
“What to do, I have to.I’ve to shoot another schedule of my second season of Halo(the series produced by Steven Spielberg) . There is no way I can postpone it. I am very upset with myself. It was such an unnecessary accident. I was in Jindal . I took a jump and landed with a fractured wrist, ” says Shabana angrily.
This is not the first fracture that Shabana has suffered in recent times. Before the wrist that’s broken now, she had broken the other wrist. And prior to that she had broken her shoulder.
“I’m supposed to be shooting till the 28th of February. And it’s all very tough physically rigorous scenes. I don’t know how I’m going to do it. I am really annoyed with myself for being careless.” Shabana sighed before signing off.
Knowing her the way I do,I can only say, nothing is impossible for Shabana Azmi.
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Shobita Dhulipala On Her Close Aquatic Connection To Her Character In The Night Manager

Sobhita Dhulipala has constantly tried to make an impression with her intriguing performances and roles. In The Night Manager she slips into the mysterious role of Kaveri.
Talking about her character, Sobhita Dhulipala says , “There’s a certain intrigue to Kaveri. On better days, you feel like you get a sense of who she is, but you could never be too sure of what she is.”
Being a water person Sobhita enjoyed her character’s aqueous antecedents, “There is a very visible parallel that’s drawn between Kaveri and water throughout the show.They both can be so gentle, so nourishing, but also very tumultuous and deep. Kaveri seems like that. She has this tenderness as well as a current within her.”
Sobhita comes from an aquatic family and feels a deep affinity to water. “I have in the past been compared with water’s energy and I thought it was a tremendous compliment. So, to be able to give form to that feeling, that connection I feel with it..it’s great. My father is a sailor. And I spent many of my younger years at sea, also the home I grow up in was by the shore. I also love the name Kaveri and I always thought when I have my own child, I’d name him/her by a river! So, I think there’s, resonance, all of it really comes together for me.”
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The Romantics Adi Chopra’s Show All The Way

Netflix’s The Romantics profiling the legend Yash Chopra in four episodes , happened only because Netflix gave complete creative control to Yash Chopra’s son Aditya Chopra, the scion of the Yash Raj family.
A source very close to the project reveals, “If it wasn’t for Adi’s nod, the project wouldn’t have happened. He not only greenlighted the project, he also personally supervised every aspect of the project. Smriti Mundhra is on board as the director of The Romantics. But it is Adi who decided what goes, and what not.”
Apparently the thirty-five interviewees speaking on Yash Chopra in The Romantics were all personally approved by Adi Chopra who also agreed to do his first video interview ever for the docu-pic on his distinguished dad.
Adi Chopra’s one and only print interview was with film critic/editor Khalid Mohamed.
The Romantics starts streaming on Netflix on Valentine’s Day February 14.
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I’m very excited to be doing my OTT debut: Shahid Kapoor

As Shahid Kapoor Gets Ready To Make His Digital Debut, He Takes Time Off For A Q & A With Subhash K Jha
Farzi is your first foray into the OTT space. How would you describe the experience? Is it any different from doing the films for the big screen?
I’m very excited to be doing my OTT debut, as everybody calls it. I think I did it because I love the directors Raj and DK and their work, and I actually really really liked the idea and the concept behind Farzi, the world of counterfeiting . I felt Sunny was a character that was as challenging as some of my most challenging characters as I’ve done yet. So I immediately wanted to do it.
And was it any different shooting for an OTT series?
Of course, it’s different because you’re watching the character over five to six hours as opposed to maybe two to two and a half hours. So it’s a deeper, wider opportunity to bring a character to life, that’s it.
Farzi gave you the opportunity to work with the great Vijay Sethupathi and also the creators Raj and DK. So what was that experience like?
With Raj and DK, I’ve loved Family Man very much and we’ve met over time and always wanted to collaborate. So I was really looking forward to it. In fact, I asked them if they have a show because they were calling me for a movie because they didn’t really expect… they didn’t think after Kabir Singh, I’d like to do something like that , or whatever. But I actually asked them for it and probed for it, and then they actually told me about this concept which we had discussed as a movie earlier.
So why was the feature film converted into a digital series?
It was just too elaborate to turn into a movie, to fit into a movie. It was only extremely sensible of them to turn it into a show because it deserves that much screen time.
What was it like working with Vijay Sethupathi?
With Vijay sir, it’s been a pleasure. And I want to see how people receive the show. He’s a fantastic actor who has always rediscovered himself and given people completely different experiences when he has come on the big screen. So it’s a privilege to have him on the show. And I had a blast working with him.
Shahid, it’s been twenty years since you started as a leading man. How do you look back on your career so far?
I feel very fortunate to still be here. And I feel grateful that people find my work relevant. I feel there’s a lot more that I would like to do. And I think I am as charged as I was at the age of 21, giving my first shot, as I am today. And I think that’s the best part of the entire journey, that I still am as excited and as curious to get on that film floor and give my next shot. I think that’s what drives any artist.
Tell me about your forthcoming projects?
I’ve got Farzi coming out on 10 Feb. And then there’s a movie with Ali Abbas Zafar, which is an action thriller, a slick action fun film, which will come out in the middle of this year. And then there’s a high-concept quirky love story that I’m doing with Maddock Films, which is directed by a new director. His name is Amit Joshi. It has me and Kriti Sanon in it, and Dharam ji and Dimple ma’am and various other very talented people.
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