While growing up, I have had women around me, be it my mother or aunt, who have individually shown me how to be strong.

My dad's side of the family was very poor while growing up, but my dadi raised three kids, got my dad through medical school, sent my uncle to America where he wanted to work and helped my aunt become an accountant, because that's what she wanted to do.

My mum was an advertising professional till she had me and my dad is a surgeon and is the director of Bhatia Hospital.

There is always a new experience on every set, a new mistake you make. It is a learning experience.

I want to get to the point where I can retire at 21, and my whole family is proud of me. That's the goal in everything that I do.

But I've been blessed to have some great opportunities and have a great family that comes along for the ride.

If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.