Did You Know: Karishma Tanna's Father Did Not See Her Face When She Was An INFANT! Find Out Why…

We still have a long way to go before we can handle the pressure society places on having a son. In her most recent interview, Karishma Tanna shared a tragic fact about her birth: under pressure from family members, her father was unhappy that she was born a girl since he preferred having a male. The fact that parents are still required to have children on the family order and that girls are always preferred is just so depressing. Because Karishma was a girl, her father did not see her face for several months after her birth, and even her mother denied seeing her for at least a week: "Jab mai pada hui thi, meri mummy ne ek hafte tak mera chehra nahi dekha tha." Talking about her father's reaction in an interview with Siddharth Kanan, she said, "Mere papa ek mahinay tak mujhe dekhne nahi aye hospital me kyunki dusri bhi ladki hi hu.”

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Karishma even remembered how her heart ached when she realised this fact: "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 family pressure was there, so he didn't come to see me." The saddest thing Karishma said about her father is that he always loved girls and wished to have one, but because of pressure from his family, he was unable to express this.

In the same interview, Karishma talked about how working on Rajkummar Hirani's movie Sanju led to melancholy because she didn't get favourable prospects. "I thought Sanju, despite her small role, would help me move forward in life. But, in fact, nothing happened. After the film, whatever response, films, or projects I had expected did not arrive. For a good seven to eight months, or one year, I wasn’t working". She further added, "Woh bohot hi mai depressed phase me chali gayi thi (it was a depressed phase). I thought my life was just colourless. I didn’t know what to do with my career. I was messaging people, saying, ‘Have you seen Sanju? Did you like my acting?’ I self-motivated myself. Only I know how I have pulled myself up from that phase".

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Karishma is currently the most renowned actress in the television industry and is at the peak of her game.