Actress Rashmika Mandanna has spent six years in the film industry. In a recent interview, the actress recalled how painful it was being away from her young sister. She said she was like a second mother to her sister Shiman Mandanna but had to move away from home for her work commitments. Rashmika made her acting debut with the 2016 Kannada film ‘Kirik Party’, and since then has gone on to feature in several hits.
On the work front, she will be next seen in ‘Goodbye’, a family comedy-drama film that sees her character Tara coping with the death of her mother. Rashmika has shared in her interviews that she thought about her own family when she had to cry during the scenes in the film. When asked if being away from her family has been difficult for her in real life, Rashmika opened up about missing her younger sister.
She said, “I’m already feeling a little sad that I don’t get to stay with them or see them growing up. Seeing your parents also grow up is something…Like I’ve seen my mum since she was 17-18 and now she’s 40-42…You’ve seen them grow up and I have a little sister who’s like eight years old. I’m like I don’t get to see them growing up, I just get to see the grown-up. I miss it a lot, but I’m a person who’s receiving so much love from everyone out there and I feel equally responsible for them. So this is the sacrifice my family has made for the people out there.”
She also said, "I've grown up in a hostel, so staying away from my parents was never a problem. But constantly staying for so long, and after your sister happened. When she was born, I would feed her, I would change her diapers, I would bathe her, I was her second mumma. To move from that to now not being able to see her grow up, was a little painful.”
Written and directed by Vikas Bahl, ‘Goodbye’ stars Amitabh Bachchan as Rashmika's father, Neena Gupta as her mother and Pavail Gulati as her brother. It also stars Sunil Grover, Ashish Vidyarthi, and Elli AvrRam among others, and is scheduled for release in theatres on October 7.
