Zeenat Aman has become a social media star since her debut on Instagram. The actress keeps sharing insightful stories from her early life. She seems to be quite active on social media and tends to treat her fans with exciting anecdotes. Recently, the actress shared yet another incident from the 1990s about one of her sons.
The veteran actress shared an old image with her two sons- Azaan Khan and Zahaan Khan. She also shared a video alongside the picture. The video showcased how a boy gets agitated by his friends as they speak ill about his sister. His friends pass derogatory comments on his sister as she works as a masseuse.
His sister then explains to him how people always speak ill about women behind their backs and twist their words wrongly. It was an advertisement, which was sponsored by Urban Company.
Zeenat captioned the image by writing, ”
I’m much too jaded to imagine a perfect world, but I’m also enough of a dreamer to believe that it can get better. It couldn’t have been easy growing up as my sons. Though I had stepped away from the limelight by the time they were in school, they weren’t immune to the occasional crude comment, vulgar question or salacious news article about me.”
She further added, “That’s why this film revived a memory. It was late afternoon in Bandra in the 90s. The boys were playing at the entrance of the building with the neighbourhood kids. I wasn’t expecting them back for a few hours, but suddenly the door flew open and one seething son stormed into the house. I looked on puzzled as he jammed his helmet onto his head, strapped on his batting pads, and picked up his cricket bat. He brandished said bat and sombrely informed me that he was going to avenge my honour. You see, one of his playmates had used some particularly colourful vocabulary to describe me.”
“If he hadn’t been so distraught I would have laughed, but his indignation touched me. I stopped him from unleashing his anger on his friends of course. And that night I had the first of many deep conversations with my sons about men, women and the ways of the world. None of us can be flawless in our feminism. Even here the mere suggestion of sex work is offensive, though I don’t see why a sex worker deserves any less respect than you and I. Then there’s the simple fact that even when women are belittled, it still falls on them to carry the emotional baggage of boys and men.”
She concluded her caption by stating, “So how do we do it then? How do we raise ourselves and our children to be thick-skinned but sensitive, astute and forgiving, kind not violent, empowered not indoctrinated? That’s a rhetorical question. I can’t answer it, but I do love that @urbancompany reappropriated the term ‘happy ending’, and got the kids and I talking about feminism again.”
