4 days Ago By Kusumika Das
Actress Raima Sen's father, Bharat Dev Varma, passed away on November 19 in Kolkata. Ahead of the tragic incident, we at Zoom had the opportunity to have a heart-to-heart conversation with Raima, where she reminisced about her childhood days and revealed how her dad never made her and her sister Riya (Riya Sen) 'grounded' and never 'spoiled'. She also shared some valuable details about his father's royal lineage.
Raima Sen on her paternal royal lineage and upbringingWhen asked whether Raima ever felt pressure to maintain a certain image considering her father's royal background on one side and her maternal grandmother Suchitra Sen's successful acting career on the other, Raima told Zoom, "So, because my father is from the royal family side, his mother and Gayatri Devi were real sisters. We've grown up with Gayatri Devi; we've seen the weddings, we've gone to the royal balls. We've seen the best of both worlds, thanks to my grandmothers.
See, my grandmother (Suchitra Sen) wasn’t in the movies when we were born, so we didn’t see that film world through my grandmother. But we saw the film world through my mother (Moon Moon Sen). She started acting after Riya and I were born.
So we saw the film world very well through my mother’s eyes." Raima added, "And from my father’s royal family side, we experienced it while growing up. We attended all the weddings, went to the palaces.
So, we saw that side as well. But the good thing is, my father kept us very grounded. He never spoiled us.
He brought us up like regular children from next door." Revealing details about her upbringing, Raima said, "We didn’t understand how big my grandmother was or how big my mother was until much later in our lives. When we were going to school, we were treated like any other kid.
We had to beg for Barbie dolls, beg for sharpeners, and wear the same kind of clothes as others. We weren’t given more than Rs 10 as pocket money when we were in school. My father didn’t let us realise the stardom around us or spoil us in any way.
" Raima continued, "So, because he brought us up like that from a young age, even today, we have no airs, no tantrums. We are really like regular people. When people see me now in real life, they say, ‘Oh my God, it’s Suchitra Sen’s granddaughter.
We didn’t think she’d be like this.’ They get shocked, but that’s because, from a young age, my father brought us up like this." "He didn’t let anything touch us—not fame, not success, not failure—nothing.
Neither fame nor stardom spoiled us. We understood my mother was famous only because, when she used to pick us up from school, the whole school would shout, ‘Moon Moon Sen’s coming, Moon Moon Sen’s coming!’ and run to get her autograph. Riya and I wouldn’t understand why they wanted her autograph.
We went to her sets, saw her shooting, and travelled with her, but we didn’t think much of it. We didn’t realise anything until much later when we got into movies at 15 and 17," Raima signed off. Get Latest News Live on Times Now along with Breaking News and Top Headlines from Bollywood, Entertainment News and around the world.
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