When Zeenat Aman's Son Wanted To Bash His Friend With A Bat For THIS Reason: 'I Stopped Him From...'

Zeenat Aman is a legendary name in the history of Indian cinema. The veteran actress who’ll be making her comeback to the silver screens with Manish Malhotra’s Bun Tikki became a social media star, just within hours of our Instagram debut in 2022. Ever since then, Zeenat has shared a number of anecdotes on her handle, some hilarious and others pertaining to her life. Maintaining that trajectory, Zeenat Aman’s latest post is also a recollection of an incident when her son wanted to beat up his friend, after he used some unsavoury words against the actress.

Taking to her Instagram handle on Saturday, Zeenat Aman shared a snap from her yesteryears, where she can be seen holding her two kids Azaan Khan and Zahaan Khan close with a smile on her face. She penned the caption, “I’m much too jaded to imagine a perfect world, but I’m also enough of a dreamer to believe that it can get better. It couldn’t have been easy growing up as my sons. Though I had stepped away from the limelight by the time they were in school, they weren’t immune to the occasional crude comment, vulgar question or salacious news article about me.”

She continued, “That’s why this film revived a memory. It was late afternoon in Bandra in the 90s. The boys were playing at the entrance of the building with the neighbourhood kids. I wasn’t expecting them back for a few hours, but suddenly the door flew open and one seething son stormed into the house. I looked on puzzled as he jammed his helmet onto his head, strapped on his batting pads, and picked up his cricket bat. He brandished said bat and sombrely informed me that he was going to avenge my honour. You see, one of his playmates had used some particularly colourful vocabulary to describe me.”

Zeenat Aman further penned,”If he hadn’t been so distraught I would have laughed, but his indignation touched me. I stopped him from unleashing his anger on his friends of course. And that night I had the first of many deep conversations with my sons about men, women and the ways of the world. None of us can be flawless in our feminism. Even here the mere suggestion of sex work is offensive, though I don’t see why a sex worker deserves any less respect than you and I. Then there’s the simple fact that even when women are belittled, it still falls on them to carry the emotional baggage of boys and men.”

“So how do we do it then? How do we raise ourselves and our children to be thick-skinned but sensitive, astute and forgiving, kind not violent, empowered not indoctrinated? That’s a rhetorical question. I can’t answer it, but I do love that @urbancompany reappropriated the term ‘happy ending’, and got the kids and I talking about feminism again,” the actress concluded.

Zeenat Aman started her career in 1970 and gained recognition with the success of Hare Rama Hare Krishna (1971) winning a BFJA Award for Best Actress. She continued her successful career with iconic films like Don and Dharam Veer, Qurbani and Satyam Shivam Sundaram. However, her on-screen presence gradually diminished after marrying Mazhar Khan in 1985. The couple stayed together until 1998, and they have two sons, Azaan Khan and Zahaan Khan.