Veteran actor Zeenat Aman often shares snippets of her life on her social media. In a recent post, she shared two photos of her late mother Scinda Heinz and wrote about how her mother gave up her career to help Zeenat when she decided to become an actor. Zeenat wrote about their good and bad times, and acknowledged that she broke her mother’s heart when she eloped. Zeenat married Mazhar Khan in 1985.
Zeenat shared one picture of her mother with her father Amanullah Khan, and another with her stepfather whom she called Uncle Heinz. She called her mother an extraordinary woman who was her “safe harbour” and a “woman ahead of the curve”.
Zeenat Aman shared that her mother started working after she separated from her husband, Zeenat’s father. She also highlighted her mother’s sacrifices after Zeenat started her acting career. “When I made up my mind to pursue a career in acting, she gave up her own work to be my manager. She negotiated my contracts, invested my earnings, packed my tiffins, ran my lines, inspired my style, and bolstered my confidence to the nth degree. All this while maintaining her own exciting social life within the expat community in Mumbai,” she wrote.
Zeenat then recalled how her mother thought that no man was worthy of her and this became a debatable point between them. “Mummy never thought any man was worthy of me (she was onto something there), and it was the only matter that we ever locked horns on. Even then, if I were ever low, I would crawl into her bed in our apartment off Nepean Sea Road, lay by her side and hold her hand. No words would be spoken, but my turmoil would settle and I would feel secure,” she wrote and added, “It’s true that I broke her heart a little when I eloped, but it mended with the birth of my first son, who shares a birthday with her.”
Zeenat Aman also mentioned that when her mother passed away in 1995, she “felt as though a veil of protection was snatched off my shoulders. These pictures are all the more precious to me now that I can only return to her safe harbour in my memories.”
Recently, Zeenat said that a couple should live together before tying the knot. Her statement received some criticism from Saira Banu, Mumtaz and Mukesh Khanna.
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