Sharmila Tagore Recalls An Episode When A Troll Said 'Better If Kareena Kapoor Had Zika & Taimur Was Never Born'

After Kareena and Said named their son Taimur, a large section of people criticised the two for doing so.

Sharmila Tagore Recalls An Episode When A Troll Said 'Better If Kareena Kapoor Had Zika & Taimur Was Never Born'

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New Delhi: Actor Sharmila Tagore has made a comeback with the OTT release 'Gulmohar'. The veteran actor who has created quite some sensational revelations during the promo tour of the film has now opened up on something else quite personal. Sharmila recalled the time when Kareena Kapoor had given birth to her first born Taimur Ali Khan. She mentioned that a person on a social media platform had posted that it would have been 'better if Kareena Kapoor had Zika and Taimur was never born'. 

Zika is a disease caused by the spread of the Zika virus through mosquitoes. 

Taimur Ali Khan was born on December 20, 2016. After Kareena and Said named their son Taimur, a large section of people criticised the two for doing so. In an interaction with Mojo Story, Sharmila spoke about the said incident, "Can you really please everybody? So why even try? Because if you go according to other people’s prescriptions then your own focus, your own desires get lost and you can’t really win so you lose anyway so why even go that way? You might as well please yourself.”

About people reacting to Taimur's name, Sharmila said, "Anger is not the emotion here. You just again observe you take note of it. Actually, I don't read, I am not on social media. But I read one post which said, ‘It would have been better if Kareena had Zika and Taimur was never born’. I said how can somebody actually think like that? How is it possible for somebody to even wish a one-day-old baby so much harm? Where does it come from? I don’t feel afraid myself but I just wonder, what is this world? And who are these people? Or are they just repeating what is being said? Are they real?”

In 2017, Saif Ali Khan had told The Times of India that he had considered changing Taimur's name and told no one about it. "I haven’t told anyone about this — I thought for a second about changing his name. For a couple of weeks. And Kareena was a little against it, and she said, ‘People respect you for your opinion and you can’t’... So I said, yeah, but it’s not about people."

"I don’t want him to get unpopular. And I still might, maybe when he’s one or two, I might change his name in a while, it’s still sinking in, what to do. Someone in my PR agreed with me, and we drafted a small letter. And when I read it, it was so pathetic that I cancelled the idea. He had added.