Actress Seema Kapoor told her painful story: She said- ‘I faced child abuse, when I was betrayed in love, I started thinking of suicide, 8 films were closed’

90s actress Seema Kapoor has faced many ups and downs in her personal life. She had to face many problems like child abuse, loneliness. Seema has appeared in many popular TV shows like ‘Bidaai’, ‘Madhubala’, ‘Kurukshetra’, ‘Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai’, ‘Hasratein’. At one time she had also signed more than 8 films with Shekhar Suman. Those films were never made. During a conversation with Dainik Bhaskar, the actress told her painful story… I was exploited in childhood I have been unlucky since childhood. When I used to see some selected children how their parents stood up for them with courage, at that time I used to feel very lonely. The environment of my family was very bad. I was 6 years old when my parents separated. I used to live with my mother. She was very strict. She used to beat me a lot. I was a victim of child abuse. I went to live with my father when I was 12 years old. I got a lot of support from him. I have also learnt a lot from my father. The truth is that whatever little success I have achieved today, only a few select people are connected to me because of that. I live with this thought – ‘Now that I have come to this world, I cannot stop living. As long as I live, I will not accept defeat.’ Whenever my heart broke, I would come home and cry a lot. My personal life has never been good. To overcome bad times, I used to work day and night. I used to do more than 3 shifts in a day so that the focus would not go towards my personal life. I never understood when the girl who started acting at the age of 6 became so big. I used to feel lonely many times even in relationships. Whenever my heart broke, I would come home and cry a lot. Whenever I went out in search of love, I would only get loneliness. My personality has now become such that I am not able to talk to everyone even if I want to. I have become very reserved even though I do not want to. My mother gave me pain in my childhood, I was betrayed in my teenage. I was betrayed at the age of 15. The person I loved turned out to be a liar. If that incident had not happened, my life would not have been like this today. I have been of regressive nature since childhood. I had to face a lot of torture even at that time. I used to think again and again that why is my life like this? My mother gave me pain in my childhood, I was betrayed in my teenage. I started getting thoughts of suicide. As my age increased, the problems never seemed to end. By the way, I considered God as my therapist. I had faith in myself. It is because of this faith that I have been able to move ahead. I had signed 8-10 films with Shekhar Suman. After doing a couple of regional films in Chandigarh, I came to Mumbai. At the beginning of my career, I had signed 8-10 films with Shekhar Suman. Shekhar was a hit actor at that time. However, when his 2-3 films flopped back-to-back, people stopped working with him. This was a setback for me. The films I had signed suddenly stopped. I started giving auditions for TV shows. My first show ‘Kismat’ changed my fate. People in the industry confuse me with Om Puri’s ex-wife (Seema Kapoor). She is a film director. People call me thinking I am a director, asking for roles. I get tired of revealing my real identity. The truth is that I have never even met Om Puri. People got me married to him and divorced him. I get calls only for the role of hero/heroine’s mother. I consider myself lucky in professional life. In my career of 35 years, I have never had a dearth of work. In fact, now I have become a little choosy about work. The reason for this is that I am offered similar roles. I get calls only for the role of hero/heroine’s mother. My question to them is what will be different in this? Will I get to do something challenging? There is no answer to this. Now I want to play a character that has different shades. I get to explore different emotions in one character.

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