Shilpa back as a judge again

She’s happy to be reunited with her team members of the dance reality show

The actress will join filmmaker Anurag Basu and dancer Geeta Kapoor as judge for the fourth edition of a dance reality show. Shilpa Shetty, who wrapped the shooting of two films, Hungama 2 as well as Nikamma with different directors and star casts, says she is glad to be reunited with the other two judges.

“I have not met any of these guys for a year and a half now and have hardly met people until recently. I have really missed them,” she says, explaining that safety has been her and the show’s primary objective. “That is why we are having online auditions now. It is a very difficult and different process.”

The actress spent the lockdown at home with son Viaan and one-yearold daughter Samisha. “I got such a beautiful daughter Samisha before the lockdown and I did spend a lot of time with the children. I realised you cannot plan a lot of things,” she says.

The actress was recently seen taking Samisha to the Siddhi Vinayak temple in Mumbai. “In our tradition, we take a child to temple on its fortieth day. But then on Samisha’s fortieth day, there was COVID and the lockdown, so we took her on the day she completed a year. Coincidentally, it was Ganesh Jayanti that day, which made the occasion all the more special. But I was completely overwhelmed by the kind of love that Samisha got from the people and I am truly thankful,” adds Shilpa.

The actress says there is a lesson to be learnt from the lockdown. “Some kind of a realisation has dawned on us about how important it is to spend time with family. People have stopped to try and over achieve at the cost of family,” she says.