Veteran actress Usha Nadkarni, who is known for her acting skills and her decades of experience in films, has made a shocking revelation about growing up with her father.
Actress Usha Nadkarni, who is best known for her role in the hit TV series Pavitra Rishtey, has spoken about her childhood in Mumbai, where she grew up with a strict mother and an even stricter father. Though she did not describe her father as a thrashing one, she has described several incidents of physical abuse at the hands of her father during her childhood. Usha, the photographer of Bharti Singh Harsh and Limbachiyaa, revealed that her father used to beat her and her two siblings with whatever he could get his hands on. Once he beat her brother unconscious and attacked him with a ‘koita’ knife (hammer).
Usha said her father was an air force officer and her mother a teacher. Even if the papers were not folded properly after reading them at home, they had to pay a heavy price. “If they find the newspapers folded or torn in any way, they lose their temper and sell them. If they see that our school is not interested in confirming the purchase, they offer them in order. My mother says they just have to buy new books, so they should not sell them,” she recalled. Her father recalled her saying, “They were very violent men, we were very infatuated. One of us was praised, and the other two ran away. Once, my brother had fallen in love with someone, and I tried to stop him. He attacked me with a ‘koita’. You know, a piece with a sharp edge? I got hurt in my hand, and I had a play the next day.” She also revealed that once her father had seen her brother’s health deteriorate and he was disappointed to see it. In an old interview with Pinkvilla, she had said, “There were special training instructions for us after the bad teachings.”
Usha revealed that both her parents were against her being an actor. When she first broached the subject, her mother threw all her clothes on the road and kicked her out of the house. She went back home and went for a walk with a friend until her father came to meet her and after a week, they returned. She revealed that she was so scared of her father that when some of her friends came to see her without any friend, she told them that she was scared of her father. When the honour of going to the nomination letter of the 2014 National Film Awards came, he ran away and hid. 79-year-old Usha is a tourist in Mumbai. She told that her brother, who was her biggest support, died earlier this year.
