Madhuri Dixit’s husband Dr Nene’s parents refused to pay for his education if he didn’t study medicine or engineering: ‘They said we won’t pay’

Madhuri Dixit’s husband, Dr Shriram Nene, was born in London but he grew up in the US. Dr Nene’s parents were not very happy when he decided to wrap up his practice in the US and move back to India with Madhuri and their sons, Arin and Ryan. In an earlier interview, Dr Nene had spoken about how his parents had strictly told him that he had to study medicine or engineering, because they wouldn’t pay for anything else. He shared that since his parents were first-generation immigrants, they did not know any better.

Dr Nene appeared on a panel at INKtalks, shared on their YouTube channel, and shared, “I had a software company when I was 14 and my migrant parents said that you either become a doctor or an engineer or we don’t pay for it. That’s their algorithm as first generation parents, they didn’t know anything better. But I, dutifully, then did not go to Stanford, did not go to Berkeley even though I got in everywhere and went to an undergrad medicine program at Washington University, finished there, went to UCLA, did general and vascular surgery, then did heart surgery at University of Florida and then practiced.”

Dr Nene said that he found his job extremely rewarding as he, along with his 80-member team, could come in at the last moment, and save someone’s life. “What I found, time and again, is I could come in, in the nick of time, with milimetres and miliseconds and save lives. And it was very rewarding because you would see patients on death’s door, come back. And it was a team effort, 80 of us, like a very large cricket team or football team coming together to do something which mattered,” he said.

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In another video shared on Dr Nene’s YouTube channel, he shared that his parents were not happy with his move to India in 2011. “I am Indian. I grew up from an immigrant start and my parents certainly weren’t happy that I am leaving the prototypical job of a heart surgeon and kind of every Indian’s wet dream with like perfect sort of situations and lots of friends and the head of the hospital. But I could operate, at the most, on 3-5 patients with open heart surgery and in a year maybe 500 patients,” he said.