Nostalgia with Seema Bhargava Pahwa: “At 22, I didn’t go for auditions or have photographs clicked”

The actor talks about playing Badki in the TV show Hum Log, wearing cotton sarees and painting in her free time

At 22, where were you career-wise?

Seema Bhargava Pahwa at 22 (left) and at 60 (right)

In the play Shakuntala Ki Anguthi (1984) with theatre group, Sambhav

With Manoj Pahwa, her husband now, in the play Aadhe Adhure

Seema in a picture from the play Aashad Ka Ek Din, with Manoj Sharma

On vacation in Mauritius

A picture of Seema when she was in school

Seema with her parents and elder sister Neeru

With her daughter Manukriti Pahwa in 1997