There was a time when actor Soha Ali Khan’s daughter, Inaaya Naumi Kemmu, would ask millions of questions about strangers taking her photographs. But Khan shares that the four-year-old has accepted the attention over time.

“When she was little, she used to ask me: ‘Who are these people? And why are they taking our pictures?’ She didn’t know what was happening and whether it was something that happened to everybody,” Khan shares.

The 43-year-old tells us that she tried to explain that people in her family are public figures, and “people are interested in seeing them as well as their lives”. “Inaaya grasped that concept. Now, it doesn’t scare her or make her anxious. She sort of takes it in her stride. We also don’t try to whisk her away or anything,” adds Khan, who is married to actor Kunal Kemmu.

With the pandemic, a sense of distance has come between celebrities and paparazzi, which Khan appreciates as “Inaaya is a little protected”.

Khan also shares that when Inaaya refuses for a picture at home, her parents respect her call. “There are many times at home where she tells me not to take her video or photo. And I respect that. She hasn’t yet said that when she is being papped outside. But sometimes these pictures are taken without consent,” she says, adding, “That is something my family signed up for, but Inaaya hasn’t. So that is a conversation she and I could have at a later stage.”