Television actress Shiny Doshi, who made her acting debut with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s serial Saraswatichandra in 2013, opened up about her strained relationship with her late father. She revealed that he left her mother and brother when she was very young, forcing her to start earning early to help her family survive. Shiny was seen getting emotional as she recalled how her father once called her a prostitute when she was just 16 years old.
Shiny said, “My father used to call me prostitute. Meri print shoots Ahmedabad mein kaafi late chalti thi — kabhi kabhi 2 ya 3 baje raat ko pack-up hota tha. Mumma har shoot mein mere saath hoti thi, tab main sirf 16 saal ki thi. Aur jab hum ghar aate the, toh aisa nahi tha ki woh poochhte, ‘Tum theek ho? Safe ho?’ Woh kharab words bolte the — jaise, ‘Raat ke 3 baje tak beti ko le jaa rahi ho? Dhandha karwa rahi ho kya?'”
“He had a bad language,” she said, breaking down in tears while speaking to Siddharth Kannan on his podcast.
When asked if she had forgiven her father despite the hurt, Shiny said, “These are certain knots in life you can’t untie. Maine isse life ke lessons seekha, lekin aaj bhi kabhi kabhi bohot weak mehsoos karti hoon — kyunki mere life mein koi fatherly figure nahi, who is backing me up.”
Shiny’s father passed away in 2019 while he was on the Amarnath Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir. She shared that before his passing, they hadn’t been on talking terms for two years, and she now feels guilty about it.
On the work front, Shiny was last seen in the serial Pandya Store, an official adaptation of Star Vijay’s Tamil series Pandian Stores.
The show also starred Kinshuk Mahajan, Akshay Kharodia, Kanwar Dhillon, Mohit Parmar, Alice Kaushik, Simran Budharup, Kruttika Desai, Priyanshi Yadav and Rohit Chandel.
