"If ever I tell people that I am going to cook, slowly everybody slinks away", Actor Shabana Azmi on lacking cooking skills

In a recent interview, actress Shabana Azmi said that she was a terrible cook. Shabana claimed that neither her husband, the lyricist Javed Akhtar, nor his children, the actors and filmmakers Farhan Akhtar and Zoya Akhtar, were fans of her cuisine. In fact, when she walks into the kitchen, they flee. Shabana mentioned that she can "burn" meals.

Shabana spoke about her lack of culinary skills. She joked, “Mere mein bohot hunar hai cooking ka (I am very talented when it comes to cooking). It is like if you are making the best dish in the world, and I walk into the kitchen and you tell me that you’re going out for a second and ask me to stir it, by the time you come back it will be burnt.”

When asked about her lack of ‘talent’, and if Javed Akhtar runs away from her cooking, she said, “So this is one talent I never had. And if ever I tell people that I am going to cook, slowly everybody slinks away. Only mere pyaare abba, Kaifi Azmi sahab, would eat my kacchhi roti and say bohot lazeez hai (My father would even eat an uncooked roti made by me and say it tastes delicious). So I can’t cook unfortunately. Woh (Javed Akhtar) aur Farhan, aur Zoya aur Baba and Tanvi, woh sabse zyada bhagte hai (Javed Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar and Zoya Akhtar, brother Baba and his wife, actor Tanvi Azmi, are the first ones to run away from my cooking).”