00:00In my house, my cousins married a Gujarati, my aunties married a Muslim, my brothers married
00:05a Muslim, my real brothers married a Muslim woman.
00:07I have married a Rajput Thakur.
00:09I belong to a place called Versova in Mumbai, where there are 3-4 mosques, a church, 5-7
00:18temples.
00:19You can hear the Azan, the morning prayer bell, and the church bell in the evening.
00:30Your family, your father is a practicing Christian, your mother is a Sikh, you are married to
00:36a Hindu.
00:37Yes.
00:38So, you are exposed to different religions in your family, different cultures.
00:45And now you are expecting a baby, so the baby is all the more richer for being exposed to
00:51so many other religions.
00:52India.
00:53India, right?
00:54Yes.
00:55A microcosm.
00:56Microcosm.
00:57That's why it has become...
00:59I think it has become more ruling civilized, democratic.
01:03Yes.
01:04I think it has become more ruling civilized, democratic.
01:07I think it has become more ruling civilized, democratic.
01:14Yes.
01:15So, if you keep advocating for the future of the Indian nation, then we will have a
01:21great future.
01:22I hope.
01:23Yes.
01:24I think.
01:25Sova in Mumbai, where there are 3-4 mosques around my house, a church, 5-7 temples, you
01:35can hear the azan, you can hear the morning aarti bell, and in the evening you can hear
01:39the church bell.
01:40And you don't feel the noise?
01:42No noise, not at all, not at all.
01:45In our Yari Road, and maybe many people know, in Mumbai there is a place called Yari Road,
01:52Yari, Dosti Yari.
01:55It's called Yari Road because there is a masjid that was made in 1936 or something, 26, 1926,
02:05and a temple made just a few years before that, they both face each other on the opposite
02:11sides of the road.
02:12You've always lived in Barsoga?
02:13Always.
02:14What was childhood like?
02:15It was like any other childhood, you know, it was like an average middle class boy's
02:20life.
02:22I used to be out and about all day, I used to play a lot.
02:26Your childhood?
02:27My childhood.
02:28He tells me that there is a story for your name.
02:31Yeah, I'm called Sonu actually at home.
02:34And you were a prankster as a kid?
02:37I mean, I was, I still retain the same circle, you know.
02:42Even now, after meeting you, I think I'll get some time to meet everyone, it's the weekend.
02:48So we play TT, we play carrom, we have a small clubhouse.
02:51That's your pressure valve?
02:53Yes.
02:54To be with real people?
02:56To be with real people.
02:57And more than 90% of them, a couple of them are actors.
03:01We started off in TV together, they are happily doing TV even today.
03:06And we still retain the same friendship, you know.
03:09But that's, as you said, that's my pressure valve.
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