After being a real-life dad to daughter Aaradhya Bachchan since 2011, Abhishek Bachchan now plays a dad on screen too. While promoting his upcoming movie Be Happy, the actor got candid during a conversation with Fever FM, where he shared his unfiltered views on parenthood and a parent-child relationship.
He plays a girl-dad in the film. He shared that in our society, a father’s emotions don’t get heard or acknowledged enough. He shared two reasons behind that – first, men don’t express their emotions and feelings enough and second, he feels that since mothers are the “superior race”, people tend to overlook a father’s role in a child’s upbringing.
“A lot of the time, in general discourse, we forget what a father might be going through. I feel men are not very good at expressing. It’s a huge flaw and we feel that we just need to very silently take on whatever responsibilities or pressures and just get on with it,” he remarked.
“A father will never be able to replace a mother,” he said, adding, “While women are the superior race, that shouldn’t have to discount what a father does. And it’s nice, once in a while, to just throw maybe a bit of light that ‘hey, maybe nothing compared to what a mother does, but they do try their best.”
But he also feels that a parent shouldn’t have a friendly relationship with their children.
“I think you should be friendly with your kid, you can’t be your kid’s friend. You are their parent. You are there to protect them and guide them but you have to be friendly enough for them to feel comfortable enough to come and confide in you and you should be the first person they would think of calling, if anything but I also believe that at the end of the day, you are their parent. They must understand that distinction, that’s what I believe,” he said.
On the work front, the actor was last seen in Shoojit Sircar’s movie I Want To Talk in 2024.