In
a
rather
innocuous
remark,
Jaya
Bachchan
on
the
Karan
Johar's
chat
show
'Koffee
With
Karan'
remarked
that
every
time
when
Abhishek
Bachchan
was
being
talked
about
by
all
and
sundry,
the
reference
point
for
him
has
been
Amitabh
Bachchan.
No
where
has
she
been
commented
upon,
or
has
been
used
as
a
reference
point
to
analyze
the
growth
of
Abhishek
Bachchan
in
his
acting
career.
What
was
left
unsaid
was
that
she
has
also
been
a
catalytic
factor
but
has
been
left
in
the
background.
Has
it
got
anything
to
do
with
the
fact
that
the
mother's
continue
to
remain
in
the
background
per
se,
and
whatever
is
happening
in
the
case
of
Abhishek
Bachchan
is
also
a
symptomatic
angst
of
the
Indian
society.
Jaya
Bachchan
is
rarely
to
be
seen
at
the
film
do's
and
AB
is
seen
most
of
the
time
along
with
his
Junior.
While
the
father
has
shared
the
screen
space
in
a
number
of
movies
along
with
the
son
in
Hindi,
the
son
and
mother
have
still
to
make
their
appearance
together
in
a
Hindi
film,
though
they
have
appeared
together
in
Bengali
films.
Mother's
generally
are
not
getting
the
due
accolades
which
they
deserve,
take
for
example
Mimoh's
case,
who
is
found
to
be
shadowed
by
Mithun
Chakraborty
but
seldom
is
Yogita
to
be
seen
in
any
of
the
appearances.
In
fact
it
seems
to
be
a
tradition
that
the
star
sons
whenever
they
make
a
debut
or
they
scale
the
ladder
of
their
careers,
seen
to
be
sharing
the
spaces
more
with
the
fathers
and
seldom
with
the
mothers.
Does
it
mean
that
the
chauvinism
and
the
traditional
concepts
continue
to
be
operative
factors
in
the
industry
as
well,
inspite
of
the
winds
of
change
that
industry
is
experiencing.
This
lament
of
Jaya
could
be
that
of
other
star
mothers
as
well,
as
the
star-sons
who
are
the
off-springs
of
an
actor
father
and
an
actor
son
are
found
more
with
the
fathers
than
with
mothers.
Fardeen
Khan
is
mostly
seen
in
the
company
of
Feroze
Khan,
but
seldom
can
one
find
Sundari
along
with
Fardeen
in
the
public
places,
it
is
the
case
with
Zayeed
Khan.
These
actors
also
do
not
seem
to
lament
or
have
expressed
any
feeling
about
the
mothers'
not
being
together
with
them
in
their
periods
of
glory.
Even
a
Dev
Anand's
son
Sunil
Anand,
when
he
made
the
debut,
he
was
always
accompanied
by
a
Dev
Anand
and
never
with
a
Kalpana
Kartik.
Sanjay
Dutt
has
been
the
notable
exception,
as
he
still
hankers
about
the
fact
that
Nargis
Dutt
could
not
survive
to
see
the
debut
of
his
son
in
ROCKY.
This
symptom
seems
to
have
an
interesting
flip
side,
where
the
female
actors
are
found
being
accompanied
in
public
spaces
more
with
their
mothers
than
with
fathers.
In
those
cases
the
fathers
generally
are
in
the
background.
But
it
is
an
interesting
lament
that
needs
to
find
its
exposition
by
being
converted
equitable
conversion
of
spaces
both
for
the
mother
and
the
father.
After
all,
the
child
is
a
construct
equally
of
the
mother
and
the
father,
and
the
mother
should
not
be
in
the
background.
Probably
the
lament
of
Jaya
is
also
a
pointer
to
the
way
the
media
takes
its
positions
and
it
exercises
its
preferences
more
through
male
choices
than
female
choices.
Leena
Chandrawarkar
on
her
own
could
not
create
a
space
for
her
son
Sumeet
Kumar,
though
he
was
a
celebrated
son
of
Kishore
Kumar,
but
the
creation
of
space
was
facilitated
only
when
Amit
Kumar
lend
a
helping
hand
to
her
step-mother.
The
statement
of
Jaya
Bachchan
should
serve
as
the
clarion
call
for
one
and
all
to
give
the
due
space
to
the
mother,
which
is
hers,
but
she
has
seldom
complained
about
it.