Veteran actor Suniel Shetty, fondly known as Bollywood’s ‘Anna’ recalled how his father came to Mumbai from Mangalore and worked as a waiter at a South Indian restaurant at the tender age of 9 to eventually becoming the owner of multiple buildings in the maximum city. In an interview with comedian Bharti Singh and her husband Haarsh Limbachiyaa, Suniel spoke about his father’s hardships on their podcast. 

Suniel said, “My dad ran away and came to Mumbai as a child. He didn’t have a father, but he had three sisters. He found work in a South Indian restaurant at age nine because that’s the thing about our community, we support each other. His first job was cleaning tables. He was so little, he would have to make four rounds of the table just to clean all sides. He would sleep in a sack meant for rice. His boss bought three buildings, and Dad was eventually asked to manage them. When the boss retired, Dad bought all three buildings. Today, I still have all three buildings. And that’s where our journey began.”