Throwback to 2010 when Aishwarya Rai Bachchan talked about maintaining a healthy work-life balance and her relationship with her in-laws on Koffee with Karan. The actress turned 49 today.
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00:00We're bachans for all seasons.
00:02Silence is so golden in a married woman's life.
00:04No wife ever makes the attempt to break the ice
00:07and to say sorry for the first time.
00:31In a day and age of really crumbling marriages
00:35and the institution people are losing complete faith in,
00:38what is the one word you would use to describe it?
00:41Marriage means keeping the faith
00:43and it's the institution both of us believe in
00:48and that's probably why we felt at home immediately.
00:52We were at home when we came together
00:54and we got married within a year of it.
00:56The cliche that I don't agree with is when people say that
00:59marriage not yet, I want to concentrate on my career.
01:02I don't agree with that.
01:04You can handle both.
01:05Everybody can handle both and you're here as an actor
01:08to enjoy your craft, put out good work, do kick-ass work
01:12and get that noticed.
01:14You will get noticed along the way.
01:16I don't think you need to remain single for that.
01:18What's really cool is about her,
01:20which is a bit of a contradiction,
01:23but it's nice about her.
01:25She's like the epitome of grace
01:27and she's very feminine and she's a lady
01:30and she gets treated like that.
01:32But at heart, she's just another, like she's a buddy.
01:35She's one of the guys.
01:36And you can ask any of my friends that I hang out with.
01:39You ask Uday, ask Dugu, ask anyone.
01:42She loves to get in there and have fun.
01:45I'm the one who has to break the ice all the time
01:47and any man who's ever married will know that I'm telling the truth
01:51and no wife ever makes the attempt to break the ice
01:54and to say sorry for the first time
01:56because every married man knows that the wife is always right.
02:03It's always easy.
02:04Just say sorry and move on.
02:06Silence is so golden in a married woman's life.
02:08You have new people in your life.
02:10You have father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law.
02:12All good with all the in-laws.
02:14Of course, the father-in-law you've acted with and done much work with.
02:17The good part is, yeah, you can't walk away from the fact
02:21and that is I did know them.
02:23But, yeah, being family and living together is a different experience
02:28but the best at it.
02:31It's interesting how similar they as a family,
02:36and I'd say I am family, of course,
02:38but if I look at Shweta, Abhishek and Ma and Pa,
02:42it's like mom, dad, my brother and me.
02:45At home.
02:46At home, it's so similar.
02:48Their interpersonal relationship, their everyday,
02:51the way they interact,
02:53the way they insist on at least a meal a day together
02:57if they're in town.
02:59That's what we did.
03:00We love spending time at home with each other.
03:02This is the way I always was at home.
03:04Probably that's why I didn't see any partying that much
03:06because when you're working, you're happy to be home.
03:08I really feel that Ma has, you know,
03:11just very easily moved into that space of being her confidante in the house.
03:16Where I'm pretty sure when a woman first comes into her husband's house,
03:19she feels a bit out of place, evidently and obviously.
03:23And I think the only person who can truly fill that void
03:28is her mother-in-law because she too knew what it was like to do that.
03:31And I really think Ma has done that.
03:33What do wives not know about husbands?
03:35They don't know and they should just really get to know is
03:38we do not like to ask for directions.
03:41Okay, alright.
03:42Shahrukh Saif, Aamir Salman, the Khan of all seasons would be?
03:46We're bachans for all seasons.
03:50We're bachans for all seasons and my name is not Khan.
03:55Oh God!