If I have to go for a short outdoor shooting, I take her. Otherwise, she doesn’t come with me. My parents come down and stay with her.
Her coming with me would mean missing school.
What bothers me is that if I am going to take Renee away from her environment, her toys, her friends, her room, her school, then I better find enough time to spend with her, to compensate for all that.
If I am going to be working and she is going to be sitting in a hotel room, that’s not a healthy environment for a child.
I would much rather she misses me and stays home. Plus, she loves her grandparents. When they’re there, she doesn’t miss me that much.
She is used to me being away, so it is a way of life for her.
She loves it because, when I come back, she has so much to tell me: "Today, Rohan hit me, Ashok gave me chocolates, this one did that..."
She has an individual life, and she has a lot to talk about. She doesn’t have a mother sitting on her head 24 hours a day.
She is growing up in her own space, away from me. When we come together, we have a lot to tell each other.