Shriya Pilgaonkar Shares How Parents Sachin, Supriya Empowered Her
We love her cool relationship with her parents!
Our childhood plays an imperative role in shaping who we are today. And most of it can be credited to our parents. Right? Being a rebel or an obedient kid nodding to everything, our personality is a curation of everything that we have learnt from our bachpan. And sharing a similar tale with us is actress Shriya Pilgaonkar, daughter of actors Sachin and Supriya Pilgaonkar, who joined host Siddhaarth Aalambayan for a brand new episode of Hauterrfly’s The Male Feminist.
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Best known for her performances in Mirzapur, Guilty Minds, and more, the actress took us back in time and shared something about her years while growing up. Reminiscing her childhood, Shriya shares what it actually means to grow up in a house of storytellers, and mentions, “Incredible. Every night before sleeping, my dad used to tell me a story. They were always original, and very very different. There would be fantasy, drama, and humour, and I would sleep with so much excitement and thrill that my dreams would also be like that.”
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Adding to this, she also speaks about being extremely close to her parents, and how she tackled her way through restrictions while growing up. Unlike most Indian households, Shriya shares how her parents never sat her down and listed down restrictions or drew timelines. She says how, she always took it as an unsaid responsibility, and there was no scope to be a rebel.
She adds, “Today, I find parents are very overprotective and while my parents are, I feel like both of them at different stages of their lives have really somewhere empowered me with just being fearless.”
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She shares how they would always encourage me to go out there, and figure it out, which she thinks is great! With the relationship she shares with her parents, Pilgaonkar also describes how they raised her as an individual, and never stated it like–girl or boy. She adds, “It was like a genderless upbringing if that makes sense. I was raised as a person.” Shriya mentions how she was always given that space to make her choices. Furthermore, she mentions “And in that sense, because of social media, what happens is that people compare the momentum of their life to everything they are seeing. So, that to me is very dangerous.”
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Talking about her idea of feminism, and how she saw it first at home, Shriya mentions when her dad saw her perform on stage, he loved her work. Coincidentally, he was also working on a father-daughter movie, and he told, “You know I have given several newcomers a chance, and I want to share this script with you.”
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The actress adds, how she appreciated her dad’s gesture and said “he would love to share the script with me, and only if I like it, we’ll go ahead.” She adds, “It was not like he is giving me this chance. And when we speak about feminism, for me this is a very important aspect of it. Especially for men.” She mentions, “Like in this case, my father could have easily taken it for granted, but he did not.”
Shriya agreed to work with dad Sachin and mom–Supriya in her first film Ekulti Ek. In the 2013 film, Shriya played the daughter of her real-life parents on the big screen.
You can catch the full episode here:
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