HEMA MALINI

 When one works in highly  demanding and taxing environments all you wish is to somehow get out of it. You think retirement would save you from the hurly burly of life. You are wrong. As long as you are around, life - the hard task master - would be putting you through hard grinds. You'd realise your days before retirement were less challenging.

Please listen to Hema Malini, the dream girl of Bollywood at age 75 answering questions thrown at her.

" You have been working for the last 60 years, what keeps you going? What inspires you?"

I have been working for so many years now, I can't be sitting idle now. I kept working even after my marriage and kids, all thanks to Dharamji. He never interfered in my work at all. Also sometimes, I need to go to Mathura, my constituency, for work. Managing all these aspects of life comes naturally to me. I feel that if I don't work, I will get bored. I need to do something or the other. I will learn something new from it too. If it is difficult, I don't say I can't do it, I learn. If it's a new role I plan for it. If there is a song, then I decide how to perform it, what to wear....I need to think about all that. You are constantly in a creative mode and that is what keeps you going. If you don't do that, then what will you do?