Zee JLF 2018 | Soha Ali Khan, Sharmila Tagore steal the show at Lit fest

Mother and daughter Sharmila Tagore and Soha Ali Khan made a joint appearance on the ZEE JLF stage on Sunday sending into a tizzy the Jaipur crowds who turned up in such large numbers that the security personnel had to shut down the venue.

The occasion of the actress duo’s visit was Soha’s recent book, “The Perils of Being Moderately Famous”, in which she writes about being the daughter of famous parents, her years at Oxford university, her travels through Europe, her first job with Citi Bank and how films happened to her, falling in love with and marriage to Kunal Khemu and motherhood.

Like in her book, Soha’s observations at ZeeJLF, were also full of self-deprecating humour. Speaking about the experience of lying under the stars in the Sahara Desert or standing in the Grand Canyon, she said it gave her a sense of her own inconsequence. It was a feeling that her fellow actors, who often seemed to feel the world revolved around them, would do well to experience sometimes.

To a question about what it felt like to have broken social barriers with her marriage to Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Sharmila said that it had never bothered her, that she had lived life the way she had wanted to.