Sara Ali Khan says her mom Amrita Singh did everything ‘single-handedly’: ‘She never made us feel we lacked anything’

Sara Ali Khan said that her mother Amrita Singh was unlike any of her friend's parents when she was growing up.

New Delhi | March 20, 2024 06:25 PM IST

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Sara Ali Khan poses with her mother Amrita Singh. (Photo: Sara Ali Khan/Instagram)

Sara Ali Khan grew up in a single parent household as her parents, Amrita Singh and Saif Ali Khan, divorced when she was quite young. In a recent interview, while promoting her upcoming film Ae Watan Mere Watan, Sara spoke about her mother and said that she was unlike any of her friend’s parents when she was growing up. And while Sara saw it as something that she was missing, she soon realised that it was a blessing.

Talking to Galatta India, Sara said that her mother doesn’t know how to cook or drive, and she saw it as something that was missing in her life until one day, her mother gave her a befitting answer that changed Sara’s perspective on everything. “While growing up, my mom was unlike any of my other friend’s moms. She doesn’t know how to drive and she doesn’t know how to cook. So I used to feel very bad. Till one day she turned around and said, ‘how many of your friend’s parents know how to act and ride horses? Because I do’. And I was like I am literally never saying anything to the heroine of Mard ever again,” she recalled.

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Sara continued, “Because I suddenly was like ‘she knows her business’. But I think that my mom is just the best, like in the world.” Sara said that her mother made sure that her brother Ibrahim and her never felt like they were missing anything. “She has never made Ibrahim and me feel like we might lack anything. She has given us wings to fly. She has also been our grounding factor to make sure we don’t fly too high. She has been my mirror. She has been my inspiration and she has done it all single handedly. I have a lot more support from a lot more people than my mother ever had growing up and if she has reached where she has, I better get 1/10th of the way. And if I get 1/10th of the way, I’m home,” she said.

Sara was recently seen in Homi Adajania’s Murder Mubarak which released on Netflix.

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