I am happy after marrying Abhinav, says Shweta Tiwari

Tiwari added that she learnt the importance of family living in Bigg Boss house.

Shweta Tiwari with husband Abhinav Kohli at a function in Ludhiana on Saturday. (Source: Express photo by Gurmeet Singh)

Rising to fame after portraying as ‘Prerna’ in Kasauti Zindagi Kii almost 10 years back, television actor Shweta Tiwari said that ‘rough patch in her life has passed and now she enjoys a personal connect with audiences.’

First ever female winner of reality show Bigg Boss Season 4, Tiwari who was in Ludhiana on Saturday for a promotional event of a pesticide manufacturing company said, “Bigg Boss Season 4 did not change my life at all. Rather the show has changed the outlook of the people towards me. Earlier, I was ‘The Shweta Tiwari’ for them, the television actor but now they know me personally. They have seen my real side on the show.”

Passing through a rough patch after getting divorced from Raja Chaudhary, Tiwari who was accompanied by her husband Abhinav Kohli said that ‘her life is back on track.’ “I am really happy after marrying Abhinav. He is caring and honest,” she said.

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Sharing her love for Punjab she said, “I have been here multiple times especially Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar. Now even my in-laws are in Jalandhar.” Punjabi food including maa ki daal and sarson ka saag are her favorites, she said. “A crave for Punjabi food. I do not mind adding extra few kilos in exchange of Punjabi food,” she said.

Asked about friends she made during Bigg Boss 4, despite heated fights with inmate Dolly Bindra, she said, “I am in touch with Ashmit Patel, Sara Khan and Sameer Soni and will continue to be in touch with them.”

Tiwari added that she learnt the importance of family living in Bigg Boss house. “I realised that we can snub our family when angry but no one can replace them,” said Shweta who will now be seen in series Bal veer as ‘Bhasm Pari’ soon.

On her decision to promote a pesticide company, she said, “I had no knowledge about what agriculture is all about. It was like playing farming games on Facebook till I joined this venture. Now, I know what difficulties farmers face.”

Divya Goyal

Divya Goyal is a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Punjab. Her interest lies in exploring both news and feature stories, with an effort to reflect human interest at the heart of each piece. She writes on gender issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among other subjects. She has also extensively covered issues of minority communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also explores the legacy of India's partition and distinct stories from both West and East Punjab. She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the most revered government institute for media studies in India, from where she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her research work on “Role of micro-blogging platform Twitter in content generation in newspapers” had won accolades at IIMC. She had started her career in print journalism with Hindustan Times before switching to The Indian Express in 2012. Her investigative report in 2019 on gender disparity while treating women drug addicts in Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2020. She won another Laadli for her ground report on the struggle of two girls who ride a boat to reach their school in the border village of Punjab. ... Read More

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