By Hindustan Times
Nothing will let you handle the tragedy of losing a friend. Ask actor Soha Ali Khan who lost her father, India’s legendary cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, seven months ago. Reluctantly, talking about her loss for the primary time, Soha opens up. “There are certain things that fluctuate you
forever. I don’t wish to recover from with it. Birth and death happen on a daily basis. Nevertheless it doesn’t affect one up to when it happens to these just about you,” she says.
“Dad had always inspired me,” says Soha, adding that Pataudi had lost vision in a single eye initially of his cricketing career when he was just 20. His tale, Soha says, was an exemplar of the triumph of the human spirit. He overcame the disability, went directly to become the captain to the Indian cricket team.
The lack of Tiger Pataudi seems to have changed Soha for the better.
She says, “Since dad, there were such a lot of deaths. It has made me more sensitive and aware of how final life is.” Ask her if time has healed the sadness and she or he says, “It’s impossible to recover from a loved one’s death. I don’t need to forget, recover from or make my peace with it now or later. I NEEDED it to switch me as an individual. It changed my perspective on what's important in life and what isn’t.”
The actor also admits that earlier, she was way more interested in day-to-day such things as making money, being successful and working with the stresses of practical buying a home and putting on weight. But now she makes it some extent to have a balance.
