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Riteish Deshmukh
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"My best memories of Gudi Padwa are definitely from my childhood when I used to get very excited to go out and shop and wear new clothes.
Dad (former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh) was very busy with politics, so my mother took care of the shopping bit. As children, you don’t really know why a festival is celebrated, so I used to get really excited with the prospect of wearing new clothes. Celebrations in the village where we hail from were bigger than those in Mumbai but it was a day when we used to seek blessings from elders, go about saying Gode Gode Bola and crack Padwa jokes.
The day also sees us having a family lunch which is absolutely mandatory for all the family members to attend. We all sit together and bond. That’s very special for me as we don’t really get to sit, eat together and talk every day as everyone in our family is too busy with their individual work. This lunch is exclusively for the family. Post this, we meet people who are close to us.”
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