I AM MOTHER, HEAR ME ROAR

Actor SAKSHI TANWAR might have played several iconic mom characters in film and television, but none of them have taught her the joys and trials of motherhood like her four-year-old daughter has, finds Kashika Saxena

- Kashika Saxena

If you owned a television set in the 2000s, you couldn’t have escaped watching Sakshi Tanwar earnestly playing Parvati, the dutiful wife and daughter-in-law in Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki, a show that propelled her to superstardom and changed the face of Indian television. Unlike the norm, where TV shows begin with the characters falling in love, getting married, and then having children over the course of a few years, Kahaani… started with Parvati having a young daughter, one she loved deeply and protected fiercely.

In her illustrious career since, Tanwar has played more iconic moms, most notably in the movie