Stars of ‘Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives’ respond to criticism: 'It's meant to be fun'

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The reality series, streaming on Netflix now, is easily one of 2020’s most polarising shows, with reviews labelling it a ‘guilty pleasure watch’ to being lampooned for being a superficial show about celebrities who are blissfully unaware of their privileged existences.   Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/1.75916401   See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  #Bollywood #India #FabulousLivesofBollywoodWives

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00:00we're not supposed to be winning awards for this it's just a show which is fun okay you're

00:07supposed to watch it lie back and enjoy it we're not we're not wanting to win awards for it so

00:13you know I think take a chill pill enjoy it

00:18Bhavna why don't you tell me how has your life changed since the series premiered

00:25I think you know it's changed it's not changed but it's changed in so many ways because there's

00:32suddenly you know a lot of love coming our way there's a lot of like a lot of people

00:37reconnecting and connecting and reaching out and just telling us how much they love the show

00:42or what they didn't like about the show or you know mixed reviews mixed opinions but everyone's

00:47reaching out and telling us and the beauty of this is that it's gone way way beyond our

00:53expectation I mean I always knew people will watch something like this people will enjoy it

00:57and that's happening to here what about you Neelam?

01:00Well things haven't changed that much in the sense you know I mean are we going out and are

01:06we going to parties and celebrating the show I mean maybe just once but yeah like Bhavna said

01:13we're just soaking it all in all the praise and all the love that is coming our way I don't

01:20think we expected it and I think it's it's 10 fold 100 folds more than what we anticipated and

01:28it's just been amazing just soaking it all in it's it's a fabulous, fabulous feeling.

01:33Excellent how about you Seema?

01:36So yeah I mean it's pretty much what they said but it's very overwhelming I've been like

01:42completely I'm in shock I cannot believe the amount of love and it's so nice to see so many

01:48people out there that are so positive and so warm and loving that I'm feeling grateful and I'm

01:55feeling like I'm on top of the world I'm actually floating in the clouds.

01:58So nice that's happening to here what about you Maheep?

02:01It's only been two weeks I think tomorrow it's gonna be two weeks so as of now I'm just on an

02:07adrenaline high I'm absorbing it in I'm just taking in all the calls it's just very, very

02:14overwhelming so I don't know how much it's changed I guess time will tell how much our

02:19lives have changed but as of now two weeks I'm just enjoying this high and the love.

02:26Right I think one of the best parts about the series is that they have humanized you know

02:32wives that we think are very removed from our lives you know were you guys apprehensive of

02:36giving a ringside view to your lives I mean at the end of the day it's also slightly an invasion

02:41of privacy right reality shows so what do you think?

02:44Yeah, when I said we lead mundane lives I mean it I mean we are not it's not all about the

02:51glamour of course there's glamour but we are women like all other women out there that we also

02:56multitask we have families, we have kids, we have homes, we work I mean I also go to the market, I

03:03also go shopping for my vegetables and my fruit just like everyone else I also catch a rickshaw,

03:09I also use public transportation so it's not like we're only you know lead these glamorous

03:16lives that's not true we're normal women, we're normal multitasking moms.

03:21One of the biggest takeaways is you ladies are such fabulous mothers you should be momagers

03:26where you're mom plus managers I think you guys are just cut out for the job everybody's on top

03:30of what the child is up to and I have to give you a big hand for that I think that takes to be a

03:36mom is not an easy job it's like blender without a lid most of the days right so perhaps was that

03:42also very was it heartening to see yourself you came across as people with real problems like

03:48you know how do you handle your children?

03:50Can I say this I just I think that being a mom in this industry is tougher so I would like to give

03:58us all the crown more because the children are out there they are not asked to be photographed

04:03they're not asked to be judged they're just automatically it happens I think that's a very

04:09unfortunate side so I think that's why we are like hawks with our children even more so and I

04:15think that comes across more but it's just the protecting, protecting our children in a world of

04:21social media where it's just gone out of whack but I'd like to say isn't every mom out there

04:27Bollywood or not Bollywood isn't every mom out there a momager isn't that the definition of

04:33being a mother so that's what I have to say we are like all other women out there all of us are

04:39momagers, all women out there.

04:41Guys, what were your first reactions when Karan Johar came and said guys let's make a reality

04:45show that's possibly like you know our answer to Keeping Up With The Kardashians perhaps or you

04:52know the real wives of Beverly Hills?

04:54I think we all were like yeah, yeah, yeah Karan 100% sounds amazing, sounds so much fun without

04:59giving it too much thought because we thought it may not happen you know we thought you

05:03thought it would not happen we've been having a conversation and having fun but Karan being

05:08Karan he's such a visionary and he actually makes things happen he made the show happen and then

05:14we were like then we started getting a little nervous all of us yeah then we got nervous like

05:19oh my god it's actually happening so that's that's when I backed out I said okay you know what

05:24I cannot do this yeah I think I had I had the maximum apprehensions and I chickened out, I

05:31actually chickened out and then

05:34Who convinced you to come back into the come back into the fold?

05:38No one really convinced me it was just something listen it's it's I just thought and then I had a

05:45chat with Karan and he also said that you know what sometimes you need to put yourself out there

05:50and I thought that it's it's Dharma, Dharmatics and it's Netflix you can't go wrong with that.

05:57What did you think of the polarizing, did you read all the reviews they were the good, bad, the

06:01ugly so how did you process it all?

06:04Yeah so I would say I have read almost every review at least the ones I'm aware of you know

06:10friends would send or you know whoever would send it to me I read most of the reviews and there

06:14were some of them which were really good and some of them which were very bad and some of

06:20them were very, very nasty also there were all kinds of reviews yeah but I think you know you

06:25know when you read a review you realize you know that some people are genuinely giving you

06:29constructive criticism and there is room for improvement if season two happens and of course

06:35we do that you know you realize when you're reading it of course would we lap it up and

06:39love it and enjoy it and forward it to many of our friends also so that they also read it.

06:44I accepted the fact that not everyone is going to like us, it's not possible, humanly possible so

06:49the bad reviews are fine but I've just not read them and it's fine you know I don't think that

06:55the show is I don't know is it a show to be reviewed it's that's a little you know baffling

07:03to me also because it's a reality show but yeah I mean I didn't read them I honestly I've not

07:09even read the good reviews to tell you honestly.

07:11Thank you for entertaining us what a fun you know way to end 2020.

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