•My guest this week is a star whose laughter can light up a billion hearts. Kajol, welcome to Walk the Talk. It has taken a lot of doing.

It has, it has taken you quite a lot of time as well.

•Yes, I remember, at one our Screen awards functions, I walked up to you and said, ‘Can I introduce myself?’ And you said, ‘No.’ (Laughs)

That sounds like me, actually.

•And I said that’s the one. What made you say yes (to being on this show), because I know you are very reticent about interviews.

You know, we are coming out with a movie right now, U Me Aur Hum, and I heard that you were an intelligent guy and I decided to find out for myself. (Laughs)

•Well, in terms of my credentials, I can say that I was absolutely in love with your mom Tanuja.

So am I. (Laughs) I know she is fantastic. She really is superb. That just shows you have superb taste, by the way, when you say that you love my mom.

•Does she talk to you about her movies?

She does, sometimes, but not recently, no. Not all that much. I think we talk to her a lot more now than she talks to us.

•Who have you taken after? Mom, grandmother, nobody?

Nobody, I would like to say. But I think it’s a little bit of everybody really. I can’t say that it’s one person. I truly believe that a child is made up of each and every one of her family, because sometimes I have people coming up to me and telling me, ‘Oh my God, you look so much like Nutan!’ Then I have someone telling me, ‘You look so much like your mom.’ And I have a third person coming up and telling me, ‘Oh my God, you look so much like your dad.’

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