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Raveena Tandon was in her early 20s when she adopted her two daughters Pooja and Chaya as a single mother. In a recent interview, Raveena shared that back in 1995, there wasn’t even an option of adopting children as a single parent, hence, she had to become the legal guardian of her girls.
She told Bollywood Bubble, “At that time, adoption was not even allowed. Single mothers adopting was not legally allowed so I became my children’s guardian. I had both the girls with me and the only option at that time was to take legal guardianship which I did. And I’m very grateful because more than anything else, I find these my achievements, when I see my girls.”
The actor continued, “When I see my two girls grown up, successful in their lives, careers, and marriages with their children, I feel a sense of pride. When I see the orphanage that I built in Vasai for those 30 girls thriving and them increasing their dormitories, and batches moving out from there and growing up, getting into jobs, that gives me pride.”
Rasha, Raveena Tandon’s daughter with her husband Anil Thadani, is rumoured to be making her silver screen debut with Ajay Devgn’s nephew Aaman Devgn. Raveena was asked about the nepotism that prevails in the film industry and the actor said that “our kids will obviously learn what they see and if they have that in their bloodstream, if they have talent and if they have art in their bloodstream, I’m not going to tell her ‘no, sorry you cannot live your dreams, you have to become a NASA scientist.’ I can’t tell her that, right?”
Raveena said that “children have to follow their dreams and what they want to do”. She insisted that the film industry is “brutal for our kids”. “There is, in fact, so much more pressure because of the fact that if they have no talent you will make one film for them. You are the audience, if you don’t want to watch them, then don’t. Audience is king. They will tell you whether you are worth being here or not,” she said.
The Daman actor said that a lot of “filmy kids” have been rejected by the audience. “They have to go through much more pressure because they have to live up to a certain expectation also. It’s even tougher for them,” she said. Raveena’s father Ravi Tandon was a popular film producer in the 1970s.
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