Kajol on Intolerance: People have become oversensitive

Mumbai: Bollywood actress Kajol said that there are no such dividing lines in Bollywood and people have become oversensitive.

At the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival Kajol said, “Our industry will always keep reflecting on what is happening in our society. It will keep on going and everyone is welcome. There are no dividing lines, no caste, no creed and no intolerance in Bollywood.”

She said, “These days people seem to have become oversensitive. As public personalties it is our duty to speak well and correctly. I have always said my ‘Mann ki baat’ and it is no different now.”

Kajol is a voracious reader and she added, “I told my husband that I’ll marry you only if you give me the Beauty and the Beast library. That was our love deal.”

The “Dilwale” star credited her mother, Tanuja for inculcating the habit of reading in her. She said, “I don’t remember a time when I didn’t see a book around my mother. She had a 400 book library in her room right above her head. Even I have a library in my room, In fact, I have three libraries in my house.”

“Easy reading is the most difficult kind of writing. I’ve read a lot if authors who’ve won awards but are bloody boring and very difficult to get through. I read not to become a smarter person but for the sheer pleasure of reading a book,” she added.

“A lot of books we read should be translated into Hindi and other languages. It’s a travesty that there are so many people who cannot read a volume of literature because they don’t know English,” she said.