Sharmila Tagore was the breadwinner of the family; Tiger Pataudi played cricket for fun, says Soha Ali Khan: ‘There was no money at all’ | Hindi Movie News – The Times of India

Sharmila Tagore broke many stereotypes in the industry ever since she started out. She continued to work even after she got married to Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (Tiger Pataudi) and made it very normal for her children also to have a working mom. In a recent interview, Soha Ali Khan has revealed that during those days, their mom was the breadwinner of the family as their father had retired.
She that in those days, cricketers did not have things like IPL or endorsements the way they have today. Soha said in an interview with Just Too Filmy, “We are often influenced by people who are close to us and one big role model for me was my father, and by the time I was born, he retired from cricket but he played for the enjoyment of the sport. There was no money at all, if you can believe, it in cricket when my father was playing in the 1960s. No IPL, no endorsements, nothing.”
Soha added, “My mother was the breadwinner in the family so I always saw him saying, ‘You should do what makes you happy’, and I also saw my mother who also has been an actor her whole life, and she still chose to do whatever her heart prompted her to do. At the age of 24, she got married even though you typically don’t do that if you are a woman. You know that when you get married your career takes a bit of a hit. She had a child a couple of years later, and she continued to work and she had some of her biggest successes after that.”
In an interview with Etimes, Tagore had spoken about being a working mom. She said, “All working women were frowned upon. The society thought we are bad women because we are leaving our children and going to work. But there’s a lot of pain and sacrifice in doing that. That’s how we were judged. Somehow, a man’s work was always valued. A woman’s work was not valued. The notion was that the man is earning a living, so your role is in the kitchen. I taught my children early in life that when I had to go to work, they tell me, ‘Get a 10 on 10’. The way I would wish them for exams, they had to wish me when I went to work.”