Father's Day special: ‘I share a joint bank account with my father’: Kriti Sanon

In Bareilly Ki Barfi (2017), Kriti Sanon shared a cool relationship with her onscreen father played by Pankaj Tripathi. Not only did she tell him everything that was happening in her life, but she also didn’t think twice about drawing on a cigarette in his presence! In real life, though, the Luka Chuppi actress does not take that liberty with her papa, Rahul Sanon, simply because he does not smoke and neither does she. “But there is a lot of similarity in the relationship I have with my dad. I can talk to him about anything. Back in school and college, my friends wouldn’t talk about periods with their father, but I used to find it normal. I would ask him to order for pads. There was 
no awkwardness. Probably because there were three women in the house, he had no choice,” smiles the actress. 

Not just that, Kriti is so comfortable with him that today, she can even share a drink with him.

Healthy Cake For Dad On Father’s Day

In her growing up years in Delhi, Kriti and her sister, Nupur, would buy something for their papa on Father’s Day. “It could be a shirt or T-Shirt. My father is not much into shopping.”    

Kriti reveals, “My dad is surrounded by three women who love shopping, so most of the stuff is either bought by my mother or us.” The svelte beauty, however, makes it a point to wish him on the special day. “If I’m around in Delhi, I pick up something for him,” she adds. This time, her father is with her in Mumbai and Kriti is planning to order a nice, healthy cake for him to celebrate. 

“He loves sweets, all Punjabis do. Usually, I tell him to avoid them, but today there will be no restrictions,” she says.

Ask her to describe her father and she says he is extremely caring and loving. “They say men don’t express their love, but that’s not always true. My father is expressive and often says, ‘I love you’ to my sister and me. His voice changes when he is talking to us — it becomes childlike, and we make fun of him, but it is cute,” she grins.

(With her father Rahul Sanon)

Joint Account With Papa

Being a chartered accountant, he is also the organised person in the house. Surprisingly, Kriti still doesn’t have a separate bank account! Instead, she still shares a joint one with her dad. “I don’t understand much about finances, where the money is coming from and going, but I love to spend! He is the one who takes care of it,” she informs.

Protective Dad 

To a query on who is the stricter one between her mother and father, the Heropanti actress says it is easier to ‘patao’ her mother. “The first thing my father says for anything is ‘No’ without even listening to it. Whenever I wanted to go for a night-out or a party, I would tell my mother and she would convince him. The same thing happened when I wanted to enter modelling. He was apprehensive — he is protective when it comes to my sister and me. Back then he was a typical middle-class father who was scared to send his daughter to an industry he hadn’t heard too many good things about.” But that’s also because he doesn’t want his child to go through hardships. “Even now he tells me I should not be picky (about the films). I, on the other hand, feel it’s okay to fail, to take risks. That’s how you learn. Now, he has opened up a lot. He has got used to the rumours that go around as part and parcel of the 
industry,” she informs.

Proud Papa

Despite his apprehensions about giving her permission to model, when Kriti’s ads started appearing on TV, he was the first one to shout out and tell everyone to watch it! Kriti recalls that when her first Telugu film was screened in Mumbai, she and her dad had gone to watch it. Post the film, when people were trying to figure out if she was the same person they saw on screen, it was her father who nudged her and said people are curious about her. “He is a shy person around people, or when posing, but that day he was going all out for me. He was proud of me, and I’ll always remember that,” she says. In fact, when she came to the city of dreams to try her luck in films, her father happened to be working in Mumbai. “For about eight months, it was only him and me in the house. That’s when I grew closer to him. He used to wake up to old songs and even now I have a playlist of those numbers. Even today, I call him for the simplest things — if the WiFi is not working or the car has to be serviced — and he gets it done from Delhi! He is the one who books my flights, he is always there, I can be a child with him,” she laughs.