Hyderabad: Bollywood actor Kajol opines that perfect families exist in cinema and every family has its own dark secrets. For the actor, perfect is overrated and dysfunctional families are normal.
Kajol is raised by her mother and yesteryear diva Tanuja after her parents separated when she was only four-and-half years old. Talking about being raised by a single parent, Kajol in a recent virtual interview has said, "My parents separated when I was about four-and-a-half years old and it could have gone very wrong. I have so many friends whose parents are together till today but not in the best spaces. They have not had great childhoods. I loved my father separately, I loved my mother separately and I loved them together as well."
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Kajol in a jest also said that she could never play her parents against each other as they were too smart and evolved. Tanuja tied the knot with filmmaker Shomu Mukherjee in 1973 and parted ways after a few years and none of them remarried. Kajol and her younger sister Tanishaa shared a strong bond with their father until his demise in 2008.
Kajol had earlier said that she cherishes her special bond with her mother. The actor said that she truly understood her mom only after she had a daughter. Kajol said she realised her mother's sacrifices after having her daughter Nysa.
