10 August,2023 07:44 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Suniel Shetty says his family members are obsessed with Athiya`s husband KL Rahul
Suniel Shetty, one of the biggest action film stars in Bollywood, turns 62 on August 11 this year. He took a break from his acting career and has focused on a more holistic way of life in the past years. Talking about how the change came about in his life, the actor told Mid-day in a recent interview that he decided not to pursue his career as nothing good was coming out of it.
"I realized 10 years ago, where am I going? What is with this career? I have been making mistakes, I cannot get out of that. I made the decision to say I don't want to do this anymore. Let me take a break and then decide if I want to come back. In two years, dad fell unwell, so that got me spending 3-4 years with him. Then came the pandemic. This entire gap led to the realization that there are so many other things that I could do in life. It was good that I was pursuing it, till the time good was coming to me. When junk is coming to me, who are they to decide whether I should accept it or not? Then realizing that food matters, spice matters, training matters, and being happy matters, is when the change in physical self also came," he said.
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He is one of the fittest senior actors in the country. And his jeans from when he was 18 still fits him! Suniel revealed, "My pair of jeans when I was 18, is still the one in my cupboard. Every time I want to test whether I have put on or not, that's the pair of jeans I get into. I never wear loose clothes like shorts or tracks throughout the year because they expand."
The actor also had some of the most beautiful things to say about his son-in-law, cricketer KL Rahul. Rahul married Suniel's daughter Athiya Shetty in January 2023. When asked what he would warn Rahul about, Suniel said, "Don't be such a beautiful human being, that we seem inferior in front of you. You cannot be such a good boy that everybody believes that this is what goodness is about and not you. That's the kind of child he is. I always tell Athiya you are blessed. I tell her she is blessed, not necessarily the other way around. Of course, Athiya is a beautiful child⦠My mother, wife, sister, sisters-in-law are all obsessed with him."
