When Zeenat Aman Had "Deep Conversations" With Sons About "Men, Women And The Ways Of The World"

Zeenat Aman will be next seen in Bun Tikki alongside Shabana Azmi and Abhay Deol

Zeenat Aman's latest Instagram entry deserves your undivided attention. The veteran actress shared a throwback picture featuring herself with her sons, Zahaan and Azaan Khan. In the snapshot, a young Zeenat is seen sitting with her beloved sons nestled in her lap. Accompanying the picture is a detailed caption where Zeenat reflects on the challenges her sons faced while growing up in the shadow of her fame. She wrote, “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.”

Sharing an incident from her kids' childhood, Zeenat Aman added, “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.”

She continued: “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.”

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