Veteran actor Jaya Bachchan is now a common feature in her granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda’s podcast ‘What The Hell Navya’. In a recent episode, the two revealed that Agastya Nanda often watches ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’ and makes fun of Jaya.
The podcast brings together three generations of the Bachchan family and features Jaya’s daughter and Navya’s mother Shweta Bachchan Nanda. When Navya asked the other two to name their favourite films in a recent segment, Jaya listed down ‘Gone With the Wind’, ‘On the Waterfront’, and Paul Newman’s ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’, and added that she also loves all Marlon Brando films. She added, “In Indian movies, I prefer the old ones, I prefer Dilip Kumar’s ‘Devdas’, ‘Mughal-E-Azam’. I can watch ‘Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham’ anytime. I love mushy movies. I can watch Sanjay Leela Bhansali's ‘Black’ and all of Bimal Roy's films. ‘Godfather’, I can watch Godfather all the time.”
Shweta added, "It (Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham) is a film that doesn’t age. Agastya watches it a lot. Sometimes, he does not understand when he watches nana's (Amitabh Bachchan) films but Karan Johar's directorial is something he can watch over and over again." Jaya then said that Agastya watches the film to "make fun" of her. “He watches it to make fun of me,” she says. Shweta then explained that at times the generation gap may be a reason why he does not understand.
Shweta got married to businessman Nikhil Nanda in February 1997 and they welcomed their elder daughter Navya Naveli in December of the same year. Their son Agastya was born in 2000. Navya is working as an entrepreneur and Agastya is all set for his acting debut next year with the Netflix film, ‘The Archies’.
