Mini aspires to own her content

AS SHE KICKSTARTS HER OWN TRAVEL SHOW, MINI MATHUR ALSO TALKS ABOUT KABIR KHAN, TUBELIGHT AND SALMAN

Mini Mathur, one of the finest hosts in B- town, has now turned producer with a travel show, Mini

Me. A 10- part series, the show is about a mother- daughter travelogue being aired on TLC India.

Mini decided to invest her own money for the show because she wanted to own her content. “I was clear from the very beginning that if I took money from sponsors, then it would have been a dangerous gamble. I would be burdened with the standard things and I didn’t want to do that — your content gets affected. I instead decided to invest my money. Frankly, even this has been a gamble, but I feel secure because I have done it on my own — it is my show, and a very intimate show,” she says.

Mini Me stars Mathur and her seven- year- old daughter Sairah.

Mini is also one of the harshest critics, according to her husband Kabir Khan. While critics trashed Kabir’s last outing with Salman Khan, Tubelight, Mini has an interesting take on it.

“A lot of people misread the film, in a way. They were expecting something from Salman — audiences wanted to see the same heroic Salman in the film. I remember when

Audiences were expecting the same heroic Salman in Tubelight — MINI MATHUR

Kabir was writing, it was a gorgeous story and Salman was too larger than life, but Kabir was convinced of the actor’s calibre,” she says. “I pushed him with Bajrangi Bhaijaan, and he managed to do something so beautiful and I am going to push the buttons a little more. Unfortunately, his ( Salman’s) fans won’t let his bhai be somebody who is emotional or crying. It’s a lesson that you learn. Who are we to say it was a great film, if people didn’t understand it then somewhere something was wrong,” she reflects.