On her return home she met Uday Shankar. "I was a terrific snob. He was a great dancer but I still thought of him as a dhoti-chappal type. I did something terrible to him once in Calcutta. He was pestering me for attention, so to put him off I stepped with my stiletto heel hard on his foot and ground it in." Unlike her sister Uzra, Zohra never had the looks. Her daughter Kiran Sehgal, the classical dancer, remembers her mother often saying, "You are seeing me now, when I am old and ugly; you should have seen me then, when I was young and ugly." The reason she never got parts in Hindi films is because "they want even the mothers to look sexy and beautiful. I had a flat chest, big hips, lousy looks". But for all its hardship, the move to England resurrected her career. "If I had stayed on hereIwould have fizzled out." Now she is back in Delhi forever. Her plan was to live a quiet retired life near her family and prepare for the quietus of the grave. But this being Zohra Sehgal's life, the unexpected has stepped in. She has more offers of work and money today than at any other stage of her life. "I go through my handbags to match them with my sari and, in each, I find little bundles of notes. Goodness, can you believe it, me and little bundles? Me who used to hunt London down to look for the cheaper loaf of bread?"