Shabana Azmi, in a recent interview, opened up on how her parents used to help strugglers in Mumbai. She even recalled how her mother helped Mithun Chakraborty to overcome his insecurities.
Veteran actress Shabana Azmi recently walked down the memory lane and recalled how Mithun Chakraborty was conscious of his dark skin and used to smile with his mouth closed because of his jutting teeth.
Speaking about how her mother Shaukat Kaifi helped him to overcome his insecurities, the Makdee actress revealed in a CNN interview, “Mithun Chakraborty, was very conscious of the fact that he had jutting teeth, so he used to always smile (with his mouth closed). And he was also conscious of the fact that he had dark skin. This, in spite of the fact that he had worked in the institute, and a lot of those insecurities had gone. But I really, really have to give it to my parents, particularly my mother, who encouraged him so much, and she made him drop his inhibitions. That was something I really appreciated.”
She further continued, “Janki Kutir was a place where all kinds of strugglers were always coming, and whether it was Abba or Mummy, they were always encouraging. When I was straight out of the institute, a lot of my institute friends, who had no place to stay in Bombay, would come and stay with us. Some would be house guests, like Zarina Wahab and Kanwaljit Singh.”
Last year on a reality show, Mithun Chakraborty had talked about his struggling days and said that he would never want anybody to go through what he had gone through in life.
“Everyone has seen struggles and fought through difficult days, but I was always called out for my skin colour. I have been disrespected for a lot of years because of my skin colour and I have seen days when I had to sleep with an empty stomach, and I used to cry myself to sleep. And that’s the only reason I don’t want my biopic to be ever made! My story will never inspire anyone, it will break them down (mentally) and discourage people from achieving their dreams,” an emotional Mithun had shared on the show.
With respect to work, Mithun was last seen in Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files.
