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Pink Villa
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
How is the relationship between Shahid Kapoor and step-mom Supriya Pathak? Veteran actress spills the beans
Born to Pankaj Kapur and Neeliima Azim, Shahid Kapoor has been a part of Hindi cinema for more than two decades. Apart from his work commitments, Shahid often grabs headlines for her personal life. Not just his parents, the actor shares a close bond with his stepmother, actress Supriya Pathak, as well. Supriya has now spilled the beans about their equation. Supriya Pathak talks about her bond with Shahid Kapoor In a recent interview with BBC News Hindi, Supriya Pathak was asked about her equation with her stepson Shahid Kapoor. The veteran actress answered it by saying that she considers him her son. Further, talking about their bond, Supriya shared that they have a mother and son relation. She noted that God has been very kind to them. The 64-year-old actress also recalled the time of their first meeting when Shahid was a child. "Jab main usko pehli baar mili thi, vo 6 saal ka tha (When I first met him, he was 6 years old)," she reminisced. Supriya Pathak calls herself a 'friend' of her children In the same interview, Supriya Pathak delved into the dynamics of her family by saying that she is like a "friend" to son Ruhaan Kapoor, daughter Sanah Kapoor, and stepson Shahid Kapoor. Supriya expressed that all of them are her children and that she can fight with them, shower love on them, and laugh with them. A look back at Supriya Pathak and Pankaj Kapur's first meeting, marriage, and marital life Supriya Pathak met Pankaj Kapur on the sets of their 1989 film, Agla Mausam. They tied the knot in 1988. Both were previously divorced. Supriya and Pankaj are parents to two children, Sanah Kapoor and Ruhaan Kapoor. For the unversed, Shahid was just three years old when his parents, Pankaj Kapur and Neeliima Azim, got separated. On the work front, Shahid Kapoor was last seen in Devaa, released in January. Shahid is now gearing up for Arjun Ustra, helmed by Vishal Bharadwaj. He is married to Mira Rajput and has two kids, Misha and Zain. Supriya Pathak has worked in movies like Bazar, Masoom, Khichdi: The Movie, Wake Up Sid, and Satyaprem Ki Katha. She last appeared in Ajay Devgn's Raid 2.
Time of India
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
‘Mera beta hai,' says Supriya Pathak about her relationship with Shahid Kapoor: ‘Normal jaise maa bete ka rishta hota hai waisa hi hai'
's parents Pankaj Kapoor and Neliima Azeem separated when he was just three years old. He grew up with his mom. While Neliima went on to marry Rajesh Khatter, Pankaj tied the knot with actress . Tired of too many ads? go ad free now While Shahid stayed with his mother while growing up, he continues to share a great rapport even with his father and his entire family. In a recent interview, Supriya known for playing iconic roles like Hansa from 'Khichdi' and movies like 'Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ramleela', has opened up on her bonding with Shahid. She shared during a chat with to BBC News Hindi, 'Mera beta hai. Bete ke sath toh normal jaisa maa ka rishta hota hai, vaisa hi hai mera aur Shahid ka bhi rishta (He is my son. We share the same normal relationship that any mother shares with her son).' She added, 'He is really my son. Ruhan, Shahid, Sanah are all my kids. I can fight with them, love them, laugh with them, I am friends with all of them. I am friends with all three of them.' Supriya Pathak opens up on her bonding with Shahid Kapoor: 'He's my son, we share a normal mother-son relationship.' One also sees Supriya bonding so well with Shahid's wife Mira Rajput. Shahid and Sanah shared screen space in 'Shaandaar'. Meanwhile, in the same chat, Supriya opened up on how she manages these various relationships in her life. She said, 'A woman has many sides to her personality and if she explores every side of her personality, then it can turn into a complete story. I never feel forced about developing relationships, all these things come naturally to me.' Earlier in an interview, Supriya had recalled that Shahid was always very warm towards her. She had told on an interview with Tweak India, 'He was very warm and he did not have any defiant reactions towards me, and nor did I have them too. So, when we met, we instantly liked each other as people. And I think that is what just carried on. Though there were a lot of times when he was not with us, so whenever he would come and we kind of always… we reacted to each other as people.'
Indian Express
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Supriya Pathak's mother believed Pankaj Kapur would abandon her, even after they had two kids: ‘Voh chala jayega, chhod dega'
Actors Pankaj Kapur and Supriya Pathak have now been married for 37 years but for a long time, Supriya's mother, late actor Dina Pathak, believed that Pankaj would leave Supriya. In a new interview, Supriya opened up about her love story with Pankaj and shared that her mother did not have much faith in their relationship, and this lasted for at least 10 years of her marriage. In a chat with BBC News Hindi, Supriya shared that she welcomed her daughter Sanah in 1993, and then had her son Ruhan in 1997. She shared that Dina would constantly repeat that Pankaj would abandon her, and after a certain point, Supriya did not care much about her mother's comments. 'First, I had my daughter Sanah, then I had my son Ruhan. Even after Ruhan was born, my mother would say, 'Voh chala jayega, voh tujhe chhod dega.' I would say, 'Abhi chhod de toh bhi chalega. Abhi main iske baare mein itna nahi soch sakti.' But she would constantly say that he is going to leave you but we have now been together for 37 years,' she shared. Pankaj had previously been married to Neliima Azeem. Supriya Pathak recalled how her love story with Pankaj Kapur first started and shared that they initially met for a film with director Sagar Sarhadi. 'He told me Pankaj Kapur was a part of it. After I heard Pankaj was a part of it, I got tempted that if he is a part of it, then it will be a good film. I felt that my role will be opposite him but I later found out that our characters had nothing to do with each other in the film,' she recalled. ALSO READ | Pakistani actor Humaira Asghar, found dead on Tuesday, passed away nine months ago; brother to perform last rites after father refuses to claim body Supriya shared that perhaps, the film was only made just so they could meet each other because it was never released. 'We met during that shoot in Gidderbaha, Punjab. I think that film was being made just so we could meet because it was never released. We met there and just fell in love.' Talking about Pankaj Kapur, Supriya Pathak shared that she learnt a lot about the craft of acting from him, and sees him as her guru. 'I learnt acting from him. I learnt how to perform a character. After working with him, I learnt how to act. Otherwise, before that, I was just performing. Pankaj is my guru, my teacher,' she said.
Indian Express
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
‘Shahid Kapoor is my son, we share a normal mother-son relationship,' says step-mom Supriya Pathak: ‘I can fight with him, and laugh with him'
Shahid Kapoor was quite young when his parents, actors Pankaj Kapur and Neliima Azeem, separated. Soon after, Pankaj married actor Supriya Pathak and Shahid largely grew up with his mother. In a new interview, Supriya opened up about her relationship with her step-son Shahid and said that they share the same relationship as any mother-son. Supriya and Pankaj, who married in 1988, are parents to son Ruhan and daughter Sanah. Talking to BBC News Hindi, Supriya was asked about her relationship with Shahid and she shared, 'Mera beta hai. Bete ke sath toh normal jaisa maa ka rishta hota hai, vaisa hi hai mera aur Shahid ka bhi rishta. (He is my son. We share the same normal relationship that any mother shares with her son.)' She recalled that she first met Shahid when he was just 6. 'He is really my son,' she shared. 'Ruhan, Shahid, Sanah are all my kids. I can fight with them, love them, laugh with them, I am friends with all of them. I am friends with all three of them,' she shared. ALSO READ | Pak actor Humaira Asghar, found dead on Tuesday, passed away nine months ago; brother to perform last rites after father refuses to claim body Theirs is a blended family and Supriya was asked about how she manages relationships within a blended family. She chose to answer with an example from her childhood and the idea of joint family that was inculcated in her from a young age. 'A woman has many sides to her personality and if she explores every side of her personality, then it can turn into a complete story,' she said and added, 'I never feel forced about developing relationships, all these things come naturally to me.' In an earlier chat with Twinkle Khanna on Tweak India, Supriya spoke about her first meeting with Shahid. 'He was very warm and he did not have any defiant reactions towards me, and nor did I have them too. So, when we met, we instantly liked each other as people. And I think that is what just carried on. Though there were a lot of times when he was not with us, so whenever he would come and we kind of always… we reacted to each other as people,' she said.
The Print
17-06-2025
- Politics
- The Print
India deserves better than M-O-D-I: Misinformation, Opacity, Distractions, Incompetence
Whether disseminating fake figures, brushing off aviation calamities with words like 'nobody can stop accidents' – as home minister Amit Shah put it after the AI 171 crash – the only thing the Modi government can celebrate after 11 years is how successfully it has mastered the art of refusing to tell the truth. And thereby escape all accountability and responsibility. Just days earlier, in another shocking tragedy, four were killed and several injured after falling from two local trains in Mumbra in Maharashtra. Around the same time, a BBC News Hindi report found that as many as 82 people died in stampedes at the Kumbh Mela earlier this year, against the official figure of 37. Weeks earlier, it had emerged through the government's own Civil Registration System (CRS) data that official Covid-19 death figures were wrong, and that the actual death toll was at least six times higher . The highest falsification of these figures was in Gujarat, where the Covid mortality rate was 33 times the earlier stated deaths. In the week when the Bharatiya Janata Party launched a familiar drumbeat to celebrate 11 years in power, the worst aviation tragedy in recent years occurred in Ahmedabad in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat. Over 270 were killed. The country was plunged into grief, outrage, anger, and mourning. The Modi government does not honour our national motto – Satyamev Jayate (Truth alone must triumph). And here's how I came to that conclusion. Negligent, unaccountable system Under high voltage advertising and boastful self-promotion, the government is plagued by the M-O-D-I syndrome—Misinformation, Opacity, Distractions, and Incompetence. After 11 years of M-O-D-I, there is nothing to celebrate. The government's constant drive for headline management, its pursuit of hype, its industrial-scale disinformation campaigns carried forward by its media and social media armies, and its wall-to-wall projection of Modi as a superhero, are obsessive, fantastical, and delusional. This frenzied focus on media management and self-aggrandisement has infused a recklessness and shoddiness in all governance systems and institutions. Narendra Modi plays a T-20 version of politics, forever on the lookout for stage event-managed spectacles and well-rehearsed theatrics that grab eyeballs and TV viewership. When the top leader is a media showman focused on photo-ops, the system down the line becomes negligent and unaccountable and is not incentivised to carry out due diligence at any level or pay attention to detail. The railway ministry seems only focused on media images of the PM flagging off Vande Bharat trains, less concerned with safety and the grim toll of rail accidents that seems to be rising every day. About 244 consequential rail accidents took place between 2017 and 2022. On 12 June – the very same day of the catastrophic Ahmedabad plane crash – a train running from Delhi to Ghaziabad derailed near Shivaji Bridge station, with its fourth coach falling off the tracks. The Modi government keeps trumpeting the opening of new airports, yet hundreds of posts in the civil aviation sector lie vacant, depriving crucial areas of aviation of adequately trained staff. Earlier this year, Parliament was told that staffing shortages are particularly acute at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), with nearly 48 per cent of its positions currently vacant. The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) are also operating with 37 per cent vacancies, according to official data. According to data shared by the Ministry of Civil Aviation in the Lok Sabha, 814 out of the 1,692 approved posts at the DGCA are vacant. Once again, M-O-D-I strikes. Despite glitzy airport openings and the media orchestra tom-tomming about privatisation, the civil aviation sector, in reality, is infected with a misinformation, obfuscation, distraction, and incompetence syndrome. Also read: India's decade of vulnerability needs political unity, not freebies Dangers of performative politics The Modi-led government has not told citizens the truth about Covid-related deaths, nor told citizens the truth about fatalities at Kumbh Mela stampedes. Even during Operation Sindoor in May, the government displayed a tendency toward wilful misinformation mixed with deliberate opacity on the gains and losses that India experienced during the conflict with Pakistan. The constant inclination is not to inform but to mislead, not to educate but to incite, not to enlighten but to confuse. Modi practices politics like performative art, constantly creating dramas that further polarise society, while the television media plays out its own circus where anchors play the role of ringmasters of lies. Bombast and bluster are unleashed 24×7 to supply online armies and their generals with ammunition to attack critics and dissenters. The Opposition is denigrated repeatedly, but an aura of invincibility is created around a prime minister, always photographed from the most flattering angles possible. When top leaders practice performative politics, when those at the very top do not hesitate to tell lies, this culture of M-O-D-I percolates from the top down to the lowest rungs. Preoccupied with only communicating deliriously fantastical images of Viksit Bharat, and stubbornly refusing to tell the truth, glitzy fakery is in danger of becoming the default mode of this government. The only achievement that this government can 'celebrate' after 11 years is the unequalled ability to market itself through a captive, irresponsible media and showcase its talent at artful headline management. In 2016, the Modi government bellowed about demonetisation as a 'master-stroke' against black money. But eight years later, there is every indication that cash is back in the system. There has been no systematic audit on demonetisation's gains and losses. Parliament has still not been told in detail what impact the Covid-related lockdown had on employment and the informal sector, or how many Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) were forced to shut down. Six years after the ghastly attack in Pulwama in 2019, citizens still don't know who has been held accountable for the deaths of 40 jawans of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). There is no reliable information available on the cases the Enforcement Directorate is pursuing, beyond that many of them are against the Opposition. But given that most ED cases do not lead to convictions, who in the ED is accountable for what prima facie is a vendetta-cum-washing machine campaign against the Opposition? In times when the ravages of climate change are sweeping across the planet, the prime minister keeps announcing ambitious climate targets at international conferences. But why has Parliament, and the people, still not been properly informed on what steps are being taken to protect the environment and push sustainability forward? The Modi government's campaigns, such as 'Ek ped maa ke naam (plant a tree in the name of your mother)', and claims that the scheme resulted in 80 crore seedlings planted, are hardly enough. Such programmes are like childish playthings, tinkering with names and nursery games instead of putting real, research-based policies in place or disseminating accurate information. Today, India's GDP numbers have been questioned because of a fog of disinformation on the economy, the latest being the media-hyped headline that India's economy had overtaken Japan's. A more sober assessment would be to also admit that Japan has a per capita income of $33,900 while India's per capita income is a pitiful $2,880. India ranks 143rd in the world in terms of per capita income, while Japan ranks 34th. And it ranks 105th out of 127 in the 2024 Global Hunger Index. No logical explanation either has been given as to why the decennial Census (now slated for 2026) was delayed for six years. The Modi government was economical with the truth on the Pahalgam terror attack, when the home minister told an all-party meeting that the Baisaran meadow had been opened to tourists without police permission. But it was later revealed that no police permission has ever been needed for Baisaran, and the place is a highly popular tourist spot. There is still a mystery over India's declining relations with Canada. What has been the Indian government's investigative response to allegations regarding the murder of Canadian Khalistan supporter Hardeep Singh Nijjar? Has India's deep state been engaged in hiring trans-national gangs for extra-judicial 'encounters' that have ruptured foreign relations with 'friendly' Western democracies? We still don't know. Also read: Modi vs non-BJP CMs: When most popular isn't all-powerful & why Centre-state ties will worsen Ask no questions To every question, the answer is the same: ask no questions. If you do ask questions, you'll be dubbed an anti-national by online bullies and the government's vast army of cheerleaders and 'influencers.' But the simple yet glaring fact is that the Modi government does not tell the truth. It is a hype machine that wants to rule by diktat and arrogantly conveys that it has no respect for the public's right to know. Interestingly, in a press conference held to mark 11 years of the Modi government, it was BJP President JP Nadda who came out to answer questions. Why? Why should the BJP chief answer on behalf of the government? Why should the prime minister or chief executive not take questions from the media? Are we then surprised that we rank 151/180 in the world press freedom index? There is a disdainful, shallow and narcissistic condescension in the way Modi turns his back on answering questions either in public or in a press conference. Modi loves acronyms. But M-O-D-I should become a descriptive term for a non-functional and inefficient government, a government which, for 11 years, has been a regime of Misinformation, Opacity, Distractions, and Incompetence. Sagarika Ghose is a Rajya Sabha MP, All India Trinamool Congress. She tweets @sagarikaghose. Views are personal. (Edited by Zoya Bhatti)
