Veteran Bollywood actor Sanjay Mishra, known for his memorable performances in films like Golmaal, Masaan and All The Best, recently opened up about some deeply personal moments from his life — including a raw experience of grief and how it intersected with public life.
Speaking in an interview with Shubhankar Mishra on his podcast, Sanjay shared heartfelt memories about his family, his arranged marriage to wife Kiran Mishra, and the overwhelming emotions he experienced after the death of his father.
Reflecting on his family, Sanjay said his wife Kiran has been the backbone of their household. “She takes care of the whole family and the house and kids,” he said. He explained how his arranged marriage to Kiran — “from the mountains” — required adjustment at first.
“When I was getting married, Saurabh Shukla told me that Sanjay live in your house like a tenant. So I live like a tenant in my house and I enjoy it… Ours was an arrange marriage. It took time for the first few days to adjust. She is from a small town Didihat from Uttarakhand, I had never heard the name of this town before marrying her.”
On Kiran’s transition to life in Mumbai, he recalled, “So a girl from a small town suddenly landed in Mumbai among all the actors, and she thinks inka toh alag he chal raha.”
One of the most striking parts of the conversation was Mishra’s recollection of an emotional episode following his father’s death — a moment that blurred the boundaries between personal pain and public perception.
Sanjay said that as he was intensely missing his father, he ended up going to the ghat where the last rites had been performed. “When is my father-in-law came to the house suddenly, and I was drinking alcohol with my driver. I was drunk, and I asked my driver to take me to the place where my father‘s last rites were performed,” he said.
He continued, “I went to the ghat and there was a pyre burning of someone else, I rubbed the ash from that pyre all over my body and started calling out to my father.” What surprised him even more was the reaction of onlookers. “But people kept asking for selfies, even when I had smeared ash all over me.”
Coming home in that state shocked his in-laws. “When I came home, my father-in-law saw me with ash all over me… and he saw the future of his daughter. I touched his feet, and my driver quickly took me to another bathroom and made me wash myself,” he recalled. He added with emotion, “I was very emotional. I cried a lot for my father at the ghat.”
Sanjay also spoke about his struggles with formal education and his father’s hopes for him. “My father used to be very tensed about my future. He had requested me that ‘Sanjay, please clear 10 Standard. I can employ you as a watchman in my office’,” he said.
He admitted, “But I did not care about studies, it was not meant for me. Study was not the goal of my life. If they would have given me some instrument like a Sitar at that time, I would have been a singer or sitarist today.”
To honour one of his father’s wishes later in life, he added: “I have bought a typewriter just a week ago. My father wanted me to learn type writing so that I can earn Rs 700 a month from being a typewriter. So, now many years after his death, I am learning typewriting.”
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