Esha Deol has persistently been candid about her personal life. For her memoir Amma Mia, the actress revealed about the changes she had to encounter after marrying businessman Bharat Takhtani in 2012. She revealed her experiences about moving into his joint family household directly after marriage.
Reflecting on the transition, Esha shared, “When we got married in 2012, there were many things that changed,” she wrote, adding, “Of course, once I began living with his family, I couldn’t roam around the house in my shorts and ganjis like I used to.”
Despite her shift in lifestyle, Esha revealed how warmly she was received by her in-laws. She described Bharat’s family as “wonderful” and expressed how they “took me into their fold effortlessly.” Esha also recollected her observation of the daily household rhythms in the family. She admired how the women were “queens of the kitchen” who were “packing delicious khane ka dabbas for their husbands.”
She admitted that cooking was completely new territory for her, stating she had “never cooked a single thing” before marriage.
But interestingly, Esha revealed that her in-laws did not pressure her into any orthodox expectations. She wrote that her mother-in-law “never insisted that I enter the kitchen or do any of the orthodox things she had been made to do as a bahu (daughter-in-law).” This eventually made her journey after marriage easy.
The actress also shared warm detail about how she was treated at home. Her mother-in-law made her feel like she was her “third son (after Bharat and his brother).” Esha added, “And since I was the first bahu in the house, I was pampered rotten. Someone was always sending me chocolate brownies and fruit and cream.”
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