Updated On: 22 July, 2024 02:58 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Sushmita Sen, who was the first guest on Rhea Chakraborty`s YouTube channel for a podcast recalled the time she was schooled by her parents for using the word `sex`

Sushmita Sen with her father Pic/Instagram
Bollywood actor Sushmita Sen, who was the first guest on Rhea Chakraborty`s YouTube channel for a podcast recalled the time she was schooled by her parents for using the word `sex` in an interview she did while only 18 years old.
Sushmita shared, “The society was not as open as today. It was like ‘haw.’ Everything was ‘haww’ to the extent that my Maa and Baba had to sit me down and say, ‘There is a lot riding on your shoulders and curb a little bit of what you’re saying. Why use the word ‘sex’ in an interview at 18? Shobhaa De’s writing badly about you.’ And I remember her name coming up specifically, you know, Bengali. Bengalis are considered intellectual. So, it was the intellectual articles that were bothering and not the gossip ones.”