Dad suddenly told me he has remarried
Actor Mona Singh, who is working on back-toback projects, confesses that she is “loving this phase of life”. She informs that she has recently wrapped up a web show where she plays a cop and will soon begin shooting for another project “with the biggest directors”.
“I am packed till March next year and I am enjoying it. It is amazing to do such different roles. I feel glad that writers, directors and creators don’t want to typecast actors and are thinking out of the box now,” says Singh, who is part of Aamir Khan-starrer Laal Singh Chaddha and is awaiting its release.
She gets off work today as she celebrates her 40th birthday. Talking about how age is just a number now, the actor says, “Women look better with age. I have seen that with so many friends and actors. I am looking better than what I did 10 years ago. The 40s are the new 30s. There is so much more to life in the 40s. Look at the superstars we have who are in their late 50s. They look so amazing!”
About the celebrations, she shares, “Actually, my mum’s birthday too is on the same day and I want to spend the day with her. Being with her all day and having friends for lunch or dinner would be a good celebration for us. All of us are fully vaccinated now so it is
P fine. Covid has changed the way we meet and celebrate. Anywhere you step out, there are so many people... I am scared to go to restaurants. So, it is more about enjoying intimate gatherings.”
She adds that earlier, she used to take her “parents for a vacation every six months but that hasn’t happened due to the pandemic”. She goes on, “Thankfully, in 2019, I did MONA SINGH, surprise them by taking them to Goa for three days and we had a blast.”
Singh recalls that last year her husband, ad producer and director Shyam Rajagopalan, surprised her when she was shooting for
Black Widows in Kolkata. She shares, “This year, he is in Ahmedabad and will join us [for the celebration].”
Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt got married to art connoisseur Shwetambari Soni in a hushhush ceremony in September 2020. His daughter from his first marriage, Krishna now admits that she had no idea about this and tells us that he broke the news to her “suddenly” earlier this year. “Maybe dad thought that I was still a little girl who could not accept this fact. So he told me suddenly. I don’t remember the exact date or time though. But it is what it is,” says Krishna, 26, who is also a filmmaker.
She further says it was not like he made a passing reference about his re-marriage, but sat down to have a proper conversation with her. “He explained to me that he has married again. For the first 13 years of my life, I was not very close to my dad. And after that, there was a period where my father did not have any relationships. We both built a father-daughter bond and it was very beautiful, and that is the most important thing to me. As long as my relationship with my father remains beautiful, as long as it stays healthy and strong, I do not want to dwell on anything else,” says Krishna.
Has she had a chance to interact with
Soni yet? She replies, “We have not, because the wedding happened during the lockdown. I stay with my mother, it was not like we would have been able to talk. I haven’t been able to meet dad, so that has not happened.”
The father-daughter duo share a good professional relationship as well. She says they had worked together on a show called Sanak: Ek Junoon, which was written by him and directed by her. “There’s a film together in the pipeline too, but it’s still under wraps,” she ends.
Krishna Bhatt; (left) Vikram Bhatt and Shwetambari Soni