Sandeepa Dhar (Mrunal co-star) on Sharma ji ka beta stuff

Look at your brother/sister, how well they…”
That sentence alone probably just triggered something in you.

Who hasn’t been compared like this at some point in their life? To their sibling, a cousin or even a friend?

The Sharma ji ka beta meme did not appear out of nowhere.

I had no idea what it was being the “favoured” one until I played a sister-sister dynamic that landed too close to home. In do deewane sehar mein, Naina and Roshni go through this vicious cycle. Roshni is told she’s not enough, while Naina is told she’s too much.

Playing Naina taught me that comparison is the thief of joy. Naina feels the pressure to maintain an impossibly high standard. Roshni feels like she will never measure up.

It turns siblings into rivals. It makes love conditional. It creates wounds that take years to heal.

Parents, teachers, relatives; they have no idea. A casual “be like your sister” at the dinner table becomes a voice in your head that never quite goes away.

Growing up, were you Naina or Roshni?

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