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New Delhi:
Jaya Bachchan is always candid when it comes to speaking about her family life in the public forum. During the latest episode of Navya Naveli Nanda’s podcast What The Hell Navya Season 2, the veteran star opened up about how she and her husband, legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan, have to move with the times or else they will be left behind. It happened when Jaya, her daughter Shweta Bachchan and granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda were discussing changing times and different parenting strategies. Shweta said her superstar parents were ‘protective’ but she is not with Navya. To this, Jaya said, “We were more protective because we didn’t know any better. That’s what we were taught. That’s how they were raised. You were raised differently. You will raise your children differently.”
After that, Navya Navya Naveli Navya appreciated her grandparents – Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan for keeping pace with the times. She said, “I feel like today when I look at you, when I look at Nana, I feel like you’re older than a certain age, you’re adapting to the current times and that’s such a beautiful thing .” Jaya emphasized that this is something they must do “otherwise we will be left behind.”
Complementing her grandparents, Navya Naveli Nanda added, “It can’t be easy for all of you to suddenly see all these new things happening. But the fact that you are so willing to adapt and move with the times is great and I appreciate that.”
In the same podcast, Jaya Bachchan said that she loves spending time with the younger generation. She said: ‘I enjoy spending time with the younger generation much more. I love sitting and listening to them and I love watching them interact. It is very stimulating for me.”
On the work front, Jaya Bachchan was last seen in Karan Johar’s Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani as Dhanalakshmi Randhawa. The film was headlined by Ranveer Singh as Rocky Randhawa and Alia Bhatt in the role of Rani Chatterjee.