How do you handle female adulation, does your wife get jealous?
I find it strange because I have no female adulation. It's been many
years and lot of people ask me why I haven't had affairs and why one
doesn't hear about me going up to women or whatever. I've never had a
woman come up to me and say anything nice to me.
But women love you!
I am sure they do, and I love them back. I think somewhere there's a
line, the way I am, it has never crossed anybody's mind to really
propose to me. I think only my wife got stuck. I've never had a woman
make a pass at me. Unfortunately. And I am too shy to make a pass at a
woman. I've too much respect for women. Maybe that's why they like me.
I know nobody believes that. About 10 days ago, people from Tehelka
had come -- my old friend Tarun Tejpal (Editor-in-Chief, Tehelka) --
they were asking me questions. I was saying that I was shy of women,
and I think I give vent to that complex of mine. Though I'm a romantic
hero in films, I have never been good with women. I have lots of
girlfriends, but they are all my friends. I play with their kids more
than I play with them. But I've never been able to go up to a woman and
say anything to her, nice, kind, romantic, interesting, wild, or you
know, sexy. And I've never had women do the same to me either.
As a matter of fact, all my heroines earlier thought I was not
attractive. Strangely, after 20 years, Juhi and all still say the same.
