had depth and wasn’t
just going to be about
adult stuff. That appealed
to me,” she says. She
concedes it was tough
revisiting the intense
segments of her life.
“When I enacted those
moments with the
characters, who resembled
my family, with the home
having actual pictures of
my parents, it was heart-
breaking,” she confides.
“Usually, I don’t see my
parents’ photographs
because then I miss them.
When you hear the same
lines that your parents
At times,
while doing an
interview with
a person, they’d
seem so nice
and funny. But
then they’d go
back and write
nasty stuff. That
affected me.
After all, I’m a
human being,
not a robothad told you, it gets
difficult. But I wanted the
truth to be shown.”
She’s pleasantly
surprised by the reactions
to the show. A girl wrote
saying that she had lost
her parents recently and
could relate to Sunny’s
pain in the film. “I got
goose-bumps reading
that,” she narrates. “My
story deals with family
intricacies that occur in
most households. I cried
while sharing my story
with the team. I cried
while shooting the series.
I cried after shooting. Ittook me a while to come
out of that. Honestly,
the finale season killed
me. There was a lot
of heartache.”
While Sunny plays
herself, South African
model Marc Buckner
plays her husband Daniel
Weber and Bijay J. Anand
and Grusha Kapoor play
her parents in the series.
“The first time Daniel
met my mother was at
her funeral,” she reveals.
“That was the first time he
met my father too. He was
there at a time when there
was so much chaos and