Yashoda Krishna is a tribute to universal motherhood and the ballet remains in demand by prominent families celebrating child birth. While daughters Esha and Ahana Deol have over the decades played the younger and older Krishna over the decades, Hema Malini remains the timeless Yashoda, more beautiful with passing years. In the nineties sometime, Hema Malini was at the airport and purchased a book that absorbed her so deeply that the following morning, she had planned her next production, Draupadi. Draupadi portrays her relationship with her five husbands and her sakha. “This is my most complex ballet and every time I perform her, I am distressed. Imagine, so many centuries have passed but her agony and rage still rattle us!
A few years ago, it dawned on Hema Malini realized that she had not yet portrayed Rukmini on stage and planned her next ballet titled it Rukmini Radha where both, the wife and the beloved have their say. She is looking forward to performing her old and new ballets on stage again. For an artiste who has been on stage from the time she was a little girl and has been dancing for almost sixty years now, her passion for both dance and Lord Krishna remains undiminished.” Krishna is there everywhere around us so is it a surprise that he is omnipresent in my dance?” she concludes.