Veteran actor Anupam Kher’s Name and Fame has crossed the continent, but in the heart, he stated, “I am the son of a forest department officer from Shimla.”
Actors and new writers joined the Etimes executive editor, Vinita Dawra Nangia for the ‘tuning to happiness’ segment, as part of a sustainable time, where he gets candid on the humble, measuring the results for happiness and not shyly life In a rented apartment in the city of Mumbai.
Kher, who released his book ‘Your best day is today’, in the midst of a pandemic, opened about finding the true meaning of happiness at a very young age.
He explained, “I was the son of a forest department officer from Shimla and lived in a small house with fourteen people in it.
But, we were very happy there.”
Separating one of his valuable childhood memories, he said, “One day, I asked my grandfather,” Dadji, we are very poor, but why are we happy? ‘He replied,’ Beta, when you are very poor, the cheapest luxury is happiness.
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Now a critically recognized actor, with a long list of Bollywood and Hollywood films for his name, including the role on American television shows, Kher found himself back and forth between the two countries.
The thirst of the knowledge that pushed him to the creative peak, he told us that he did not measure his wealth with the zip code and frills in his life.
“I don’t even have an apartment in Mumbai.
I live in a rented apartment.
I decided 4-5 years back that I didn’t want to have a property.
The only property I bought 4 years ago was home to my mother.
At Shimla,” he said.
Reveal the story behind the only real estate purchase for his mother, he said, “After my father died, he began to live with us.
I used to be teasing him, ‘Mama, aak Anupam Kher Hai, Abh Aur Kya Chaihye?’ He To my surprise by telling me ‘Mujhe Ghar Chahiye’.
I told him that Raju (brother) and I had a house, so he said, ‘Nahi, Shimla I …
Throughout my life, I used to live in a rented house in Shimla and My desire and dream is that one day I will have a house ‘.
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Hunting for his mother’s house took him to the beautiful Shoghi city, where he found a BHK room in a 100-year-old house.
Anupam told us, “he liked the place and called me and said,” I found a small house with an external entrance ‘.
I asked the broker, how many rooms at home and he told me that it had 9 bedrooms.
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“I think that if I have to give my mother a gift, it must be something extraordinary.
So I asked the broker to see if the owner was willing to sell the whole house,” he continued.
While he hit the deal to buy the whole house, he kept his mother busy and asked him to look around the place.
“‘Do you want to see other rooms?” I asked him and said it was very big and ‘Bahut Accha Hai’.
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That’s when he dropped a big surprise and told him that he bought his dream home.
“‘Aap ka kharab hai! Mujhe nahi chahiye itna bada ghar …’ he scolded me,” he smiled with memory.
