Actor Randeep Hooda is discovering a new side of himself, and he couldn’t be happier about it. Two months after welcoming daughter Nyumika with wife and actor-athlete Len Laishram in March, Hooda says fatherhood has brought him a kind of quiet happiness that he hasn’t experienced since his teenage years, changing how he feels about coming home at the end of each workday.
Randeep Hooda talks about what it’s like to be a father
In a candid conversation with Mid-Day, Randeep Hooda described the unexpected emotional shift that occurred when he became a father for the first time. “As a person, I feel a little weak in the knees,” he said. “I want to go home more than ever since I got married because it’s another reason to come back. I often find myself sitting in the corner and smiling to myself thinking about my daughter.”With only two months of fatherhood under his belt, Hooda says he’s still very much a student of the role, and his parents have already thought about what it means.
“I’m still a new father. It’s been two months, but there’s more to discover every day. As my father says, this is the best achievement of my life,” he said.
Randeep Hooda shares whether fatherhood will change his film choices
The natural question for any new parent in the public eye is whether having a child changes creative decisions. Hooda says his compass has always been set the same way.“I have never made choices that would later embarrass me in front of my children or anyone else’s children,” he said in the same conversation.
So that will not change.”
More about Randeep Hooda
On the work front, Randeep Hooda will next be seen in Eetha, directed by Laxman Utekar and based on the life of Tamasha Vithabhai artist Bhau Mang Narayangaonkar, also starring Shraddha Kapoor. The film recently wrapped shooting. Hooda is keeping the details close to his chest for now, preferring to wait for the green light from the filmmakers before saying more. “I don’t want to talk about myself,” he adds with a smile.Randeep Hooda was last seen in Inspector Avinash season 2 with Urvashi Rautela.
