After her intimate wedding celebrations last weekend, Soha Ali Khan is looking at a week of absolutely no work.
"Both of us just want to put up our feet and relax," says Soha, of herself and husband Kunal Khemmu.
Soha seems surprised by her decision to marry. "I have always felt the only reason to get married is to have children. We have been lucky to have supportive parents. My mother is a very liberal wife and mother, so there was no peer pressure to marry."
Soha is confident about marriage.
"I've always felt when you are committed in a relationship, you have to work through the difficult times. I've seen my parents in a successful solid marriage for 44 years," she says.
The actress is quite practical about marriage. "There is no perfect relationship," she says. "You have to work around the dissatisfaction. I am sure even my parents had their problems. They were completely different personalities but they must have worked on their marriage and made it work.
"I never felt any insecurity regarding my parents’ marriage. They handled their issues and the public face of their marriage was very dignified. If I am a secure person today, it’s because of the marriage my parents shared. I’d certainly want my child to feel the same sense of security," she adds.
Soha knows she has to work hard on her marriage . "To keep a relationship going in today’s day and age is very difficult. I'd like to think if my relationship has worked for five years, it’s permanent. We are all so self-centred. So am I. To give that much to a relationship is very difficult. My happiness always came first. But now to make Kunal happy makes me happier.
"Kunal has a lot of integrity, fervor and ambition. What I love the most about him is his consistency. In five years, he has never wavered in his thoughts and beliefs," she says.
