Kajol says Salman Khan, Aamir Khan avoided age-gap romance question, but feels ‘can’t get mad at them’: ‘Feminism is overused’

Kajol admits that her former co-stars Salman Khan and Aamir Khan didn't really answer her and Twinkle Khanna's question on how older male actors romancing younger female actors on screen is celebrated more than the other way round.

Salman Khan, Twinkle Khanna, Kajol, and Aamir Khan on Two Much.Salman Khan, Twinkle Khanna, Kajol, and Aamir Khan on Two Much.

On the premiere episode of their celebrity chat show Two Much on Prime Video India, Kajol and Twinkle Khanna asked their former co-stars Salman Khan and Aamir Khan an important question: if an older male actor romances a younger female one, it’s called “cinema magic,” but if an older female actor romances a younger male actor, it’s dubbed as “bold.”

However, Salman and Aamir pinned it down on the script, that not too many stories with older female characters aren’t being written. The former also picked “freshness” as a reason behind him romancing much younger female actors on screen. While Kajol and Twinkle did quiz them on their responses, they also claimed they’re asking the same questions back home to their husbands Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar respectively.

Now, Kajol has admitted that Aamir and Salman didn’t really answer their question. “They went around the topic quite nicely. He said, ‘Maine kiya hai kya?’ ‘Tune kiya hai?’ ‘Really? Mujhe toh nahi laga.’ ‘Achha, tujhe nahi laga?‘ (laughs) So ya, they beat around the bush. They didn’t answer the question,” Kajol told The Hollywood Reporter India.

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But she also added that she can’t get mad over this approach of male actors towards this trend. “Honestly, you can’t get mad. Not for any other reason but because it’s something out of your control. I feel feminism is a word that’s overused, and is a term I don’t think too many women understand also. Because feminism doesn’t start with anyone, but yourself,” she said.

“Feminism believes with who I believe I am. If I believe I’m worth it, nobody on this Earth can turn around and say, ‘No, you’re not.’ If you believe them, then you’re not a feminist. That’s the truth about women all across. We’ve to stand up for ourselves and each other. I believe in women’s club. I believe women need to stand for each other, praise each other, and employ each other, like we see guys do for each other all the time. Guys, even for that matter, will see you for how you see yourself. If you see yourself as confident, everybody will see you that way regardless of gender,” Kajol added.

She demonstrated how she’s never let “small, little barriers” get in her way, like marriage, kids, and turning 50 recently. “Maa has done extremely well in a theatre today. So really, what are we talking about? It’s just your own mind,” pointed out Kajol. Vishal Furia’s mythological horror film Maa, starring Kajol in the lead role, earned over Rs 36 crore at the domestic box office earlier this year.

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Kajol tied the knot with Ajay Devgn when she was 24 back in 1999 when she was at the peak of her career as a leading lady. She returned to acting just two years later with Karan Johar’s 2001 blockbuster family drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. Three years after giving birth to daughter Nysa Devgan, Kajol delivered a hit in Kunal Kohli’s 2006 romantic drama Fanaa. After the birth of her son Yug Devgan, Kajol delivered another success in Rohit Shetty’s 2015 action romance Dilwale.

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