IAMA BETTER FATHER THAN ACTOR OR HUSBAND
Actor Swapnil Joshi may have been in the showbiz for over three decades, but there’s one thing he aspires to do before this year ends. “I promised my daughter that I will be super fit by the end of 2022,” he quips. Joshi’s six-year-old daughter Myra wishes to see him “super fit”. “In bacchon ke funde alag hote hain. So I’m going to give it my best shot,” he adds.
Interestingly, an entire generation witnessed Joshi grow up from being a kid to being a father of two. Ask him what kind of dad he is, and the actor nonchalantly replies, “I am absolutely brilliant. At the cost of sounding immodest, I will give myself 10/10. I am a hands-on father. I think I am a better father than son, husband, an actor or anything else.”
Joshi, who also has a four-year-old son, named Raghav, recalls taking two months of paternity leave when his daughter was born. “From changing her diapers then to changing her clothes even today, I have done everything. From making them sleep, waking them up, to taking them for drives, dates, movies, picking them up
Actor Swapnil Joshi talks about being a hands-on father and gives himself full marks for the same
from their classes or bathing them, you name it and I have done it all,” shares the 44-year-old.
The actor, who is currently shooting for a daily soap in Pune, shares that whenever he is in Mumbai, he has a rule: “If I am in Mumbai, I make it a point that I either see them waking up or see them going to bed. So, either I will leave late for the shoot or I make sure I am home by 10.30pm, as they sleep by 11pm. I sit and chat with them, hear their complaints and sort them out,” he signs off.