Actress Kajol isn’t nervous about the release of her next, as much as she was while shooting for it. “It was nerve wracking to actually shoot it, because it's a genre that is not one of my favorites. I'm braver off screen than I am while watching a movie,” she tells Mumbai Mirror .
The actress plays a mother in her next a horror flick– Maa. Ask her if she drew inspiration from her real life experience while playing a mother on screen, and she replies, “It happens inadvertently. I've been playing a mother for the last 22 years, day in and day out. It's not something that you can turn off. All mothers have this superpower within them that when they become mothers, there is this amazing thing that comes over you – whether you call it obsession, or whatever you may call it, otherworldly power within you. Mothers are super protective of their children and always have been. They're called mama bears because you've seen a mama and she's one real dangerous thing in action. We've pretty much taken that basic instinct and worked through it and made a film over it.”
For Kajol the Mama Bear side of hers has come out often. “It comes out. Of course we have tried, both Ajay and I, have tried our best to protect our children as much as we can. But I also think that you can't protect them too much because life is life, the world is the world, and they have to learn how to deal with everything. And we may or may not always be there, to back them up, hold their hands or stand behind them,” she adds.
Kajol teams up with Vishal Furia , for the movie. Ask her how she manages the power dynamics on the set, and she replies, “Tomorrow, if I really want to do something, nobody's going to stop me if I really believe and I'm convinced that this is the right thing for me to do. Nobody is really going to turn around and tell me that, listen, no, we can't. As an actor, I do believe that the director is the captain of the ship.”