From Narayana Murthy’s weight management tactics to her culinary escapades abroad, Sudha Murty dished out all details in a freewheeling chat with Kunal Vijayakar.
📹: Kunal Shrikrishna Vijayakar
📹: Kunal Shrikrishna Vijayakar
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00:00I don't like cooking. I don't know how to cook.
00:03Obviously, the way to Mr. Narayan Murthy's heart was not through his stomach when he met you.
00:08Are you in love at first sight?
00:10No, maybe on his side, but no.
00:18I have heard that there are two things that make you smile when you talk.
00:23One is food, and the second is Mr. Narayan Murthy.
00:26Yes, people ask me, Mr. Narayan Murthy, your weight is the same.
00:33How much did you weight at the wedding?
00:34It's the same, but a little less.
00:36How do you manage?
00:38I say, thanks to my wife's cooking.
00:40If I cook like this, she can't eat.
00:43Okay, that's why she is like this.
00:46I eat well, but I don't know how to prepare well.
00:50I cook two, three, four times a day.
00:52Mysore puri, I cook.
00:54I make tea in a very good way.
00:57And in Hubli, we have poha.
01:02Poha is leading all our food.
01:05I love poha.
01:06We make 16 varieties of poha.
01:08In Hubli?
01:08Yes, in Hubli.
01:09So, you should go to Hubli.
01:11Yes, I should go to Hubli.
01:12We make dadape pohe in Maharashtra.
01:16We make poha without tempering.
01:20We make sweet poha, payasam, kheer.
01:23We are experts in poha.
01:25Between Tungabhadra river and Krishna river,
01:27we are experts in poha.
01:29You don't cook.
01:30What type of food do you make at home?
01:35Which community do you belong to?
01:39I don't like cooking.
01:41I don't know how to cook.
01:44It's okay.
01:44If you know so much, then what is cooking?
01:47I have been working outside since childhood.
01:51So, I don't spend much time in cooking.
01:56But I don't get bored.
01:58If no one comes home, we go to the hotel.
02:02I make paratha, dal, sabji.
02:06I know the basic cooking.
02:08Rice, dal, sambar, paratha, sabji.
02:12But I don't know how to do this.
02:16There is simple cooking at home.
02:18Narayan Murthy doesn't eat sweets.
02:19He doesn't eat sweets at all?
02:21Because his wife is very sweet.
02:23Yes, we eat all the sweets.
02:25I like sweets a lot.
02:28You have just come back from Paris.
02:30You travel a lot.
02:35When you travel, what type of food do you like?
02:39When I go out, I do adventurous work.
02:43But not in food.
02:44I am scared of going out.
02:47I am a pure vegetarian.
02:48Not even egg.
02:49Not even garlic.
02:51Oh!
02:52I don't eat garlic.
02:52Not even garlic?
02:53Yes.
02:55I am scared of going out.
02:57I have used both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food.
03:01It gives me a lot of trouble.
03:04That's why when I go out, I go to a vegetarian restaurant.
03:08Okay.
03:08Boiled vegetarian.
03:09Pure vegetarian restaurant.
03:10Yes.
03:11And I always carry one bag full of food.
03:19I carry around 25-30 chapatis.
03:21Oh!
03:22And I fry the semolina and keep it ready to eat.
03:27I add hot water and dehydrate it.
03:31I also carry poha.
03:32I love poha.
03:34I have a cooking bag.
03:35I also have a small cooker.
03:37Okay.
03:38My grandmother used to go this far.
03:4060-75 years ago.
03:44I used to make fun of her.
03:46She used to take food with her everywhere.
03:49She used to say, can't you eat outside?
03:52She used to say, I have got used to it.
03:53Now I make fun of her.
03:56If I go to any country, it doesn't matter.
03:59You carry your own food.
04:00I carry my own food.
04:01Your husband also likes simple food.
04:04He is not a foodie at all.
04:06Not at all.
04:08It is said that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
04:12Yes.
04:12So obviously, the way to Mr. Narayan Murthy's heart
04:16was not through his stomach when he met you.
04:18Was your love at first sight?
04:20No.
04:21I knew him.
04:22Maybe on his side.
04:22Okay.
04:25Maybe on his side.
04:27I know what Mr. Narayan Murthy likes.
04:30He likes spicy hulianna.
04:32Spicy hulianna.
04:33It is a special dish of Mysore.
04:35He likes it a lot.
04:37I make it too.
04:39He also likes brinjal curry.
04:43Mysore style.