kirti kulhari who has films like mission mangal pink indu sarkar and others to her credit was not close to her mother sarwani kulhari during her growing years however over the past few years she admits to have developed a bond with her in an exclusive interview with etimes kirti opened up about what mothers day means to her things that she admires in her mothers and more excerpts from the interview how close are you to your motheri am pretty close to her i wasnt that close when i was growing up i was actually close to my dad for a long time but in the last 10 years i have grown closer to her it is getting better every year i am very close to her now i happen to be here with my parents during the lockdown this is also a great time to bond with her and spend time with her i am taking care of her and she is taking care of medo you usually celebrate mothers dayno i am not anydaycelebration kind of a person i dont even bother celebrating my birthday so everything else is not important to mewhat does mothers day mean to youi dont really believe in all these days while i understand the sentiment behind it it is great to be reminded what different relationships mean and what all these people mean to us as i always say what matters is how you are with all these people with your mother the rest of the days while this day helps you remember what it is to have a mother and what she stands for it is the practice of all of that for the rest of the days that truly mattersyou feel your mom is the best becausemy mother is as good as anybody elses mom i think mothers in general have these qualities that make them the best one of the qualities that my mom has is that she is the first one to get up in the morning and the last one to sleep at night she makes sure everything in the house is in order everyone is fed and everyone is taken care of i have rarely seen her getting tired of this she has always been a homemaker she has been doing this for the last 40 years or more it is amazing to see how she can still do it with the same enthusiasm love and carewhat are the three things that you have learnt from your motherfirstly my mother is a no nonsense person she calls a spade a spade so that is something i really admire in her i have imbibed that in me to a great extentsecondly my mother is a cleanliness freak she is ocd sometimes while i am not even close to achieving the perfection that she is able to i have a sense of keeping things around me clean and hygienicmy mother is somebody who has always been the