Salaam Venky is Kajol’s “75th comeback”, as she likes to refer to it. The actress is currently enjoying her now artiste thoroughly for the liberty she gets offered along that she didn’t have in her early phase

And now in an interview with the Indian Express, Kajol opened up on the movie Salaam Venky that talks about euthanasia. Kajol plays a mom to a boy with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and she describes the journey of becoming Sujata as “scary.”

Opening up on why she picked up this film, Kajol said, “The relationship that is shown, that of Sujata and Venky, the mother and son duo is very pure. And how their relationship becomes even more closer-knit, intricate and complex. In the film, there is a line which says everything about their relationship, where Venky tells Sujata, “Maine tujhe bohot tang kiya hai na?” And Sujata says no, ‘Tune toh mujhe jeena sikhaya hai Superman ki tarah (You’ve taught me how to live life to the fullest).’ That is what Salaam Venky is all about.”

She added, “It is a story about a mother and her son, but is about everyone involved in the film and I think Revathi is the star of the show because she’s balanced the film so well. When you go in to watch the film, and after you come out of it, you feel happy and that is saying something. You feel hope, who doesn’t need hope in life really?,”

She opened up further on working with female filmmakers, for she didn’t work with female directors in her early phase as an actor, saying, “I’ll give them the biggest compliment that I can give them and I’ll tell you my ratio of… Purely from my perspective… My scale is good director, bad director and medium director, directors who fall in the middle who can be bad and good but mostly fall in medium category. In my case, I’d say it was great fun to have another woman in authority on the set, but above all they’re just fine directors and they’ve written some amazing scripts. I’m very privileged to have worked with them really.”

Salaam Venky deals with a very delicate subject euthanasia, which isn’t legal in India. Speaking up on how it’s been to deal with such a subject, Kajol said, “It takes an extraordinary amount of courage to even talk about it. I think Sujata, the character, the woman who led this entire conversation for her son, that’s something that ‘thinking people’, all of us would never even think about. Our intelligence and education would get in the way. Revathi ma’am had the most amazing thing to say about it… that sometimes the simplest people are the bravest.”

Adding on her evolution, Kajol said, “I think that heroes have… let me put it like this, I really believe in this so quote me and quote me exactly when I say this. I believe that heroes in fact have this responsibility on them to be something, to be heroes and that they take that responsibility very very seriously, it is as if the fate of the entire industry rests on their super broad shoulders. So yes, whereas I have that freedom to choose, I have the freedom to grow, and be something else. But I think right now, these contemporary heroes that you’re talking about, I think a lot rests on their shoulders and I think they all take their responsibility very very seriously.” As quoted by The Indian Express.

Source – The Indian Express