Karishma Tanna’s father didn’t see her for a month after she was born: ‘He wanted a son’

Karishma Tanna told Siddharth Kannan in her recent interview, “My mother had told me, when I was old enough, that actually when I was born, my dad wasn’t happy. He wanted a son and there was family pressure, like typical Gujarati families. They thought a son can carry forward their lineage, earn more and they are superior. My mom had two daughters. My granddad and grandmom used to give us second-hand treatment. ”

“Jab mai pada hui thi, meri mummy ne ek hafte tak mera chehra nahi dekha tha. Mere papa ek mahine tak merko dekhne nahi aye hospital me kyunki dusri bhi ladki hi hui (When I was born, my mother didn’t see my face for one week. My father didn’t see me for a month since his second child was also a daughter). When my mom told me that, it broke my heart. It’s not that my father didn’t love me. It was because his second child was also a girl and there was family pressure, so he didn’t come to see me. But, it broke him also from inside,” Tanna added. She clarified her father didn’t come to see her as he couldn’t bear to see the ‘second-hand treatment’ his daughter would get.

Tanna said that all this made her strong and she decided that she will show them what a girl is capable of.

The actor, who started her career with the popular TV show Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, also shared it was difficult for her to enter the entertainment world and convince her family. She revealed that her extended family would ‘give her looks’ and say, ‘Will you enter any industry to earn money?’ But her mother supported her and borrowed Rs 10,000 from her aunt to get a portfolio made for her daughter.

Even after she got cast in Kyunki Saad Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, her father did not talk to her for three to four months. But when she became a household name with her role of Indu, he expressed his happiness and said, “Mera beta hai tu (You are my son).”

Karishma Tanna will be seen in Hansal Mehta’s upcoming Netflix series Scoop where she essays the role of a crime journalist. The series is inspired by Jigna Vora’s biographical book Behind The Bars In Byculla: My Days in Prison. The series starts streaming on Netflix on June 2.

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