Overview

• In her July interview, Soha Ali Khan revisited her mother Sharmila Tagore’s lengthy film shoots and their emotional impact on her early family life.
• She recounted that a young Saif Ali Khan once refused to see his mother after she returned late from a shoot, telling her “I don’t need you, I don’t want you right now.”
• Sharmila Tagore has said she worked two film shifts a day and was “really absent” for the first six years of Saif’s life.
• Soha described bursting into tears on a Rajasthan set because she missed her daughter Inaaya’s 7 p.m. bedtime ritual during a film shoot in Mandawa.
• Their stories have reignited public discussions in India about the strains faced by working mothers in the entertainment industry.