Shweta Bachchan Nanda says it’s ‘daunting’ to come from a family of overachievers

When Navya Naveli asked if she is now okay with failure, Shweta Bachchan said, “Who is ok with failure and especially someone like me who comes from a family of overachievers, people who have achieved so much. It’s even more daunting. Not that my parents have put pressure on me or ever said that ‘You have to be this or that,’ but you do feel like you have to do something, you have to be brilliant at it otherwise don’t do it because look at everyone else around you, look at what they are achieving.”

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In 2018, Shweta turned author with the novel Paradise Towers. However, she didn’t take the negative reviews for the book kindly.

Talking about dealing with failure, she said, “I wrote a book. It’s not like it made it became a bestseller or anything, but I’m not that person who can just bounce back up and say, ‘Okay, I am going to…’. I take it personally if there are bad reviews. I can’t see it objectively that okay someone may not have liked it. It took me a very long time…like I just stopped writing and it made me doubt myself.”

On the podcast, Shweta Bachchan also spoke about questioning herself as a mother every time she would get into an argument with her children Navya Naveli or Agastya Nanda.

“In a personal space where I feel like ok, you know if I have an argument with you or your brother and if it is a bit out of control, then I say, ‘Oh have I failed as a parent?’ Or if they say, ‘Oh we have learned this from you,’ I take it very personally. I am unable to be objective about this and look at it at that moment,” Shweta shared.