/> "I'm over the moon!" screams Shabana Azmi. "My children Zoya and Farhan Akhtar were on Kaun Banega Crorepati. They won Rs 25 lakhs. And they donated it to my group Nevara Haq. I'm so deeply touched, I can't express my joy."

The Akhtar siblings needed no prompting for this act of philanthropy. "I'm so gratified and grateful for them to do it on their own. At our organization we're so strapped for funds. In one scoop we have a windfall for our cause. 25 lakhs is certainly no small matter for my slums."

It certainly seems more than producer Farhan Akhtar paid Shabana for acting in Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd.

"Oh absolutely!" Shabana roars. "I did get paid, but very little."

The mother in Shabana surfaces proudly. Her opinion on Farhan's Don? "I didn't understand Don! Farhan looks at me as if I'm stark raving mad when I say so. He wants to know what there was to understand. But let me tell you, it was an extremely stylish film.

I think Farhan is seriously one of our best filmmakers today. Cinema is also about images. And his images are very strong. But they don't scream out at you. That, I think is a very special ability."

Shabana is equally proud of Farhan's sibling Zoya. "My Daughter Zoya has worked with Mira Nair on her short-film on AIDs. It's called The Migration. And it's a very good script. She'll be directing her own film in April."

And why isn't Shabana in it? "There's no role for me. Otherwise I'd bulldoze both my kids Farhan and Zoya and casting me in them."