Preity Zinta breaks silence on 18-hour workday amid Bollywood comeback

So, each to his own, and of course, the reason I was working 18 hours is that I wanted to finish my work as soon as I could and go back to America to be with my kids,” she.

Zinta also revealed that she was so focused on completing the project that she made no social plans during the filming process. “It’s not always that everyone is laughing on set. You want to get the job done.

There was a lot of action. There were many other variables. Sometimes it was raining.

Sometimes you were sick. So, keeping all that in mind, my whole thing was, ‘I don’t mind doing this,’ because I’m coming to India and I’m here for 30–40 days,” she added.

Her comments come amid a wider debate in Bollywood over long working hours, which intensified in recent months following actor Deepika Padukone’s reported concerns about fixed working hours and work-life balance. For Zinta, however, the demanding schedule was a personal choice driven by her desire to balance her return to Bollywood with her responsibilities as a mother.

Vibemarks Zinta’s second film following an eight-year hiatus from Bollywood, after she returned to the industry with. Batwara 1947. The actor haspreviouslyspoken about how motherhood and raising her children shaped her approach to returning to the industry.

In interviews surrounding. Batwara 1947, she reflected on how her priorities had changed since becoming a mother. “However big my career milestones might be, my greatest milestone was to have children and a family,” she had said.

Her upcoming film, Vibe, is a spy comedy directed and produced by Kunal Kemmu. The project also stars Sparsh Shrivastava and Vanshika Dhir and is set to release on September 18. Zinta married American financial analyst Gene Goodenough in 2016.

The couple have twins, Jai and Gia.