Shabana Azmi is known to break stereotypes on screen and off screen, the yesteryear actress has always stood up in support of women time and again. Recently, reflecting on her own life experiences, the yesteryear star opened up about women often resorting to ‘self-blame’ when they are unable to have children. Standing in support of them, the actress shared how often people around make you feel ‘incomplete’ and how it impacts a woman. Azmi also went on to reveal some pearls of wisdom shared by mother Shaukat Azmi about the role she enjoyed playing the most, out of the multiple roles played by woman in real life.
Shabana Azmi opens up about how ‘society makes you feel incomplete’ when women cannot have kids; says, “You have to work hard to pull yourself out of that”
In an interview with Indian Express, Shabana Azmi gave out the message to all women who fall prey to the society shaming them about being not being able to conceive by asserting that women’s self-worth shouldn’t be defined only by her role in the household. She said, “It’s tough coming to terms with the fact that you can’t bear children. Society makes you feel incomplete. You have to work hard to pull yourself out of that. But your ultimate sense of self must come from your work. Women often measure self-worth from their relationships – how they hold up as a wife, mother daughter… For a man that’s not the criterion of success – rather it’s his career, his work that gives him the greatest satisfaction. I believe that should apply to all genders.”
“When I asked my mother (late actor Shaukat Azmi), who was an excellent housekeeper, wife… what was the most fulfilling of all her roles, her answer left me surprised. She said her work and appreciation for it gave her primary satisfaction. Women have to overcome patriarchal expectations. It doesn’t mean turning up your nose to duty but making it more inclusive so that your partner also respects it,” she added.
For the unversed, Shabana Azmi married to writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar in 1984 and the couple continues to be one of the eternal power couples of B-town. Javed was earlier married to Honey Irani and the couple have two children – Farhan and Zoya Akhtar.
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