Mumbai: Former actress and Union Minister of Minority Affairs Smriti Irani not too long ago recalled an uncomfortable incident from her days of taking pictures the every day cleaning soap, ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’. Smriti, who additionally holds the Ministry of Women and Child Development portfolio, shared that she was known as to work on the units of her hit present a day after she suffered miscarriage. At that point, she was additionally engaged on one other present ‘Ramayan’ directed by Ravi Chopra.
Smriti’s co-actor from ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ advised producer Ekta Kapoor that she was mendacity following which Smriti confirmed up at Ekta’s workplace along with her medical paperwork.
She advised Neelesh Misra on ‘The Slow Interview’: “I was not aware that I am pregnant. I was on the set (of ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’) and I told them I am not well enough to shoot and asked to be allowed to go home. But still, I worked, and by the time they let me go, it was evening already. The doctor suggested, I go for a sonography. On my way, I started bleeding, and I remember it was raining. I stopped an auto and asked the driver to take me to the hospital. When I reached the hospital, a nurse came running, asking for an autograph… all while I was bleeding. I signed an autograph, and then asked her, ‘admit kar loge? I think I have suffered a miscarriage’.”
She shared that pushing the schedule of ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ was simpler because the house could possibly be crammed by 50 different essential characters not like ‘Ramayan’ wherein she performed Goddess Lakshmi in addition to Sita. When Smriti advised Ravi Chopra about her state of affairs, he suggested her to take a relaxation.
She stated: “He told me, ‘tumhara dimag kharab hai’ (Are you out of your mind)? Do you know how it feels to lose a child, you have just gone through that. Kal aane ki zaroorat nahi (No need to come tomorrow).”
“I, however, pushed and told him that it’s a Sunday episode and (the character) Sita can’t be replaced,” to which the director replied that he’ll handle.
The subsequent day after her hospitalisation, Smriti returned on the units of ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ the place she discovered {that a} co-actor had advised the producer that she was mendacity about her miscarriage.
Smriti stated: “The person didn’t realise that I have returned because I needed money to pay EMIs for my house. The next day, I took all my medical papers to Ekta to tell her it is not a drama. She got uncomfortable and told me not to show the papers. I told her, ‘foetus bacha nahi, warna woh bhi dikha deti’ (I would have shown you the foetus also had it been there).”
