"I was not interested in doing a film at that point of
time. I didn't want to sign anything. I was really tired doing
'My Name...'. I didn't want to hear the script. I wanted to
chill and take a break for at least three months. When they
insisted, I heard the script and I really liked it," said
Kajol.
"We Are Family" is different from what Hollywood
actress Susan Sarandon played in "Stepmom", she says.
"I had seen 'Stepmom' very, very long back. I didn't watch
it before doing the film because I didn't want it to influence
me and I really think Maya is a very, very different character
from what Susan Sarandon played," said Kajol.
Kajol has a daughter in real life and is expecting her second
child. She feels being a mother in real life makes a huge difference
as far as the body language is concerned.
"When you become a mother and you are raising your daughter,
there is something about a mother's voice that you get. God
gives it to you. Most children respond to it and I think it
comes instinctively.
"I think even in the film where your body language is
concerned, I feel it makes a difference. I won't say you take
it from normal life, it's just an instinctive part of taking
care of a child or being very hands on over there," she
said.
She played mother to a boy in the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer "My
Name is Khan".
"Handling three children was more difficult - no two ways
about it. That kid in 'My Name...' was very good and he was
much older actually. Here, Diya (Sonecha) was five, Nomi (Nominath
Ginsberg) was seven and Aachal (Munjal) was 12; so this was
a complete range of children. But they were very sweet and enthusiastic,"
said Kajol.
Asked if her work distracted her from enjoying her pregnancy,
she said: "I don't think that anything can distract you
from being pregnant. You know that you are pregnant and 24x7
nothing can take that fact away from you and nothing can distract
you from it.
"But, yes, it's nice working. It's good to know that I
can still work. I was very, very nervous the first time around,
but this time I am very comfortable and I know what to expect.
So it's much easier to handle it," said Kajol.
She rules out any possibility of being a director ever.
"Not really, I am a reader. I like to read more than anything.
My definition of a producer and director is they are the ones
who get paid to have an ulcer in the stomach," said Kajol.