ON PERIOUS PARENTHOOD

Based on a true story, Salaam Venky stars Kajol as a mother who nurtures a son with a rare Duchenne muscular dystrophy

- Suhani Singh

KAJOL opens up about how nervous she was to play Sujata in Salaam Venky

Helicopter Eela, Tribhanga and now Salaam Venky—all these films show different hues of motherhood. Would it be fair to say it’s a role that’s never easy, no matter how familiar it is? But women make it easy because we are taught to multitask from the time we are children. We are told that you will never have just one role in life and you will have to satisfy all of them, all the time. We put unexpectedly strong expectations on ourselves, not realising we are human beings, too.