Do You Know, 'Munna Bhai MBBS¡¯ Actress Priya Bapat Lived In A Chawl For 25 Years Despite A Glitzy Career
Actress Priya Bapat who made her Bollywood debut with Munnabhai MBBS is someone who saw a glitzy career after being a normal girl who grew up in Mumbai¡¯s chawl. And despite doing a lot of small and big projects, Priya chose to live in that small house on Dadar¡¯s Ranade Road which she called home.
Bapat only moved out when she got married to actor Umesh Kamat in 2011.
A prominent Marathi actress, Priya in an old interview revisited her good old days of living in that simple yet beautiful chawl. She told TOI in 2018, ¡°I have spent almost 25 years of my life in that chawl. Till I got married I stayed there. From celebrating Diwali together to playing games with my friends during childhood days, this chawl has given me a lot of memories.¡±
Priya added, ¡°The speciality of this chawl was, all the houses on a floor were connected to each other internally through doors. So it was easily possible to go from one house to another without getting out of the house. This system kept all the families on the floor connected to each other.¡±
¡°Also, I feel that nowadays, the apartment system has created distance between people.¡±
Asked if she likes her chawl more or a luxurious apartment, Priya shared, ¡°It depends on the needs of a person. The needs change with the development. I now stay in a luxurious apartment but still, chawl is my first love. I still visit my old chawl as my family stays there. But I don¡¯t get to meet my old friends as everyone got married and shifted to some other place.¡±
The same year, Priya shared a picture of her chawl on Instagram and penned a heartfelt note alongside.
She wrote, "Stay grounded. Connected to your roots. Always remember where you come from, where you belong Home, where I grew up, which made me what I am today."
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On the work front, Priya worked in several Marathi TV series like Adhuri Ek Kahani, Shubham Karoti and Damini. As a child artist, she also featured in projects like Abhalmaya and De Dhamal. Priya has won the Best Actress Maharashtra State Award and was even nominated in the Best Actress category at the Marathi Filmfare Awards.
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