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.
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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.