‘There was Roger Moore, Sophia Loren, and Amitabh Bachchan’: Jaya Bachchan recalls parent-teacher meetings at Abhishek-Shweta’s school

She said, “When they were in school — they were in a good school, not an in-your-face school — there were a lot of celebrity kids. But nobody cared. Nobody gave a damn. And one of my best memories of their school time is once, at the parent-teacher meeting, they put a tag saying ‘Shweta Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan’, one on me, one on nana. All parents had it.”

She added, “And then we finished, and of course, it was not a very encouraging meeting. So, we came out, and it was snowing. Everybody was wearing their thick coats, and standing. There were three celebrities, with three report cards. There was Roger Moore, there was Sophia Loren, and there was Amitabh Bachchan. All three had report cards, and all three looked at each other and shook their heads, saying, ‘What are our kids doing?’ But nobody gave a damn. Nobody cared. Nobody gave you any special treatment. Nobody ill-treated you. Celebrity kids have this problem.”

Abhishek went to the Jamnabai Narsee School as a child, but Jaya was probably referring to his stint at the Aiglon College in Switzerland. He dropped out of college in the US to return home and help out with his father’s troubled ABCL company. He made his debut as an actor in 2000.